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Pay to Work: Are you Kidding Me?

Older lawyers at large law firms often complain that associates are not profitable.  This is silly, when you do the math, as I do below.  Here's the latest incantation of this silliness:On Sunday night at dinner, an out-of-town friend since college, and member of a large U.S. law firm, raised the above question. "Jack's" verbatim query was a bit, but not much, different. After being startled for a moment, I wrote it down:     "If associates get all the benefits of training at my law firm in the first three years, and can't really add much value anyway, why don't they pay us?" The blogger who was told this lie thinks it's a good idea.  Yes, folks, associates should pay law firms for the privilege of working for them...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on September 03, 2008 (boomark / email).