Legal | Rob Complains About Things

It might be time to leave BigLaw if….

…although it’s 8 degrees outside, you stopped wearing a coat so you can pretend you’re heading down to the cafeteria when you’re actually going home for the night.

…you wear the same pants every day for a month, but it goes unnoticed because all your friends are sitting in their own offices with the doors closed.

…you’re the person on the elevator who says, “What is this, the local?”

…you’re jealous of people with two computer monitors because they can review documents and watch Hulu at the same time.

…rather than explain a mistake to a junior attorney, you redo the work yourself and never work with or speak to that attorney again.

…you have a speakerphone conversation with the person in the office next to you and can hear the echo of your own voice.

…the best part of your week is the free attorney lunch. Yup, the one that gives you diarrhea.

When to quit big law - a cartoon by rob pollak

…you reprint a 100-page document because you added one comma to the first page. Then you decide the comma’s unnecessary so you call a legal assistant to change it for you.

…you invent an emergency project for yourself to avoid the summer associate event because you hate mingling with other humans.

…you finally realize that your bonus is arbitrarily determined by the financial performance of another law firm.