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Old 02-12-2020, 01:11 PM
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I found it the other way round surprisingly. People in university were intensively competitive because everyone was fighting for the same few opportunities (moots, training contracts, subject prizes) but once qualifying, people were much less pressured as the competition becomes bounded by your department. A litigation associate isn’t fighting in the same market as a finance associate. Of course I could have got very unlucky in school and very lucky in work but remember that school is truly competitive (akin to a sports contest) where everyone roughly sits the same exams, but in the real world everyone is working on different cases and deals!
It is cut-throat in litigation though, your learned friends who were once your good buddies can become the dirtiest players in the game, partly due to the adversarial system which puts pressure to "win". And also, clients that will blame and refuse to pay the lawyers if the lawyers lose.

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