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Originally Posted by Unregistered
The legal profession is a pyramid structure lah. The whole point is to hire a lot of grunts to do the work, and weed them out so that only a few get to be partners, and even fewer get invited to the ranks of equity partnership. Attrition is just a natural process like in any other sector. How many SAF regulars get to be Colonels or one-star Generals? How many business execs get to be C-Suite level leaders? |
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Which is why in our time the golden years of lawyering are over.
I don't know what the grunts are fighting about. You reached the top of the pyramid in 3 to 5 years in the past.
Nowadays there are too many grunts and too little pie, which triggers the grunts to divide themselves according to "school rankings" - dubiously biased and irrelevant since lawyering is a practice and not an essay competition - on an anonymous forum. Correlation not causation. Plenty of academically bright students struggle with practice, and plenty of non-academic students succeed.
There is a sense of dissatisfaction and entitlement, but if you go further, entitlement to what? What do you feel entitled to coming from a good school and good grades? 0.01% of the existing pie? Entitled to being a star grunt?
As a service industry, all the clients worth having are already on someone else's books. No point being acadenically strong without clients. You will only ever be a grunt.
If you're a doctor, the clients are the same. Lasik on a middle class person costs the same as lasik on an upper middle class person.