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Popular culture usually portrays the life of a junior associate in one of America's elite law firms collectively Biglaw either as a glamorous and lucrative (if morally dubious) adventure, or as a hellish immersion in mind-numbing servitude to psychotic senior partners, while the available advice books on being an associate usually give little insight into what Biglaw practice is really like, or why it is the way it is. In this book, Sarah Powell (herself a veteran of Biglaw associate life) gives a clear-eyed, intensely personal, and at the same time institutionally sophisticated account of what associates experience and why. Rather than being random and inexplicable, the unrelenting demands and intense hierarchy to which elite firms subject their junior lawyers are inextricably linked to the firms' chief claim to their prestige and their enormous incomes the sometimes explicit boast that Biglaw can handle any legal issue, at any time, with superb competence and matchless speed. Powell Biglaw: How to Survive the First Two Years of Practice in a Mega-Firm, or, The Art of Doc Review read book online now.
