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Originally Posted by Unregistered
Thank you for sharing your thoughts! I absolutely agree on your point that as community lawyers, we have a sense of fulfilment helping individuals especially when our work would hugely make an impact on the lives of our clients. My work includes family and criminal law; I have to deal with the emotions of my clients and I do enjoy the challenge that stems from that. I just fail to see the point of comparing firms who serve FTSE100 clients and firms who assist battered battered women and children. I also have to add that the white noise stemming from external recognition can be very loud sometimes.
However, as idealistic as this sounds, I hope that the legal fraternity can avoid such comparisons so as to avoid situations where someone joins a big four corporate department as opposed to community law in a smaller firm even if that is something they would prefer doing. Perhaps law school professors ought to bring this message across to law students.
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Optimism is good. Don't let it be the stepping stone to jaded disappointment. Understand that what you're hoping for might never happen.
They built an entire new school to support community law - and you will still be told that "quality" at that law school is not good. White noise will always exist. It is up to you to turn out the white noise and believe that there is value in what you do.
I hope you stay in practice long enough to realize that the white noise doesn't matter... and that most of your friends in those big 4 firms will move in-house in the next 3-5 years. Several will move to smaller firms for better work-life balance. Few will become big4 partners. Some will leave law altogether.
Things get better with time.... and maturity.