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"No Country For Old Men:" Junior Associates And The Real-World Practice Of Law, Ian Gallacher
"No Country For Old Men:" Junior Associates And The Real-World Practice Of Law, Ian Gallacher
Ian Gallacher
This short essay seeks to give law students hoping to be junior associates at large, big-city law firms some information about the seemingly large salaries offered to them and discusses what life might be like for them if they take a position at one of these firms. The essay begins with a discussion of how much an associate might expect to keep, after the cost of living in a large city is accounted for, from the advertised starting salary offered by such firms. It then considers what it costs the firm to pay an associate such a large salary, how …