I genuinely do not understand why someone would want to be the managing partner of a large law firm. I met one at a panel recently; was very nice to me and friendly and whatnot, but he doesn't touch law anymore. Boo.
https://twitter.com/TheLawyermag/status/1465347423702814723
"Hey I'm a great lawyer."
"Congrats, here's a multi-billion dollar business you can run and not do law at all."
"Congrats, here's a multi-billion dollar business you can run and not do law at all."
More power to those who want to do that job. But you could not describe a worse "fancy" law job to me than "running" a global law firm.
To round back on some comments, I think law is different, because the high echelons of prestige or money aren't really tied to these jobs. Like in what I do, no one would care if you were global head of some firm. That's not at all impressive.
And the M&A people I met early in my career competed on how big the deals they closed were and how much money they could make. Some title would just have been a pain in the butt to them.
But obviously some lawyers disagree.
But obviously some lawyers disagree.
Look, I'm open to the idea that I just don't understand how fun those jobs are, but I suspect the real answer is that people value *really* different things :)
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