Life after JD

Done with Memo. This stupid memo took me like 20 freakin' hours! 18 hours to write the thing, 2 hours to edit it down from 11 pages to 8, because our prof "strictly enforces" the page limit. (Damn her!)

Need to start reading for classes...

Went to an interesting talk on life after JD today, where the speaker presented us with a lot of statistical data on the 4,000 young attorneys they tracked over the past few years. Here is what I took away from it:

- Women in law are a lot less happy than men in law
- Asians are a lot less happy than other racial groups in law, although they are also less likely to leave their current job.
- On the whole, between 50% -60% of people plan to leave their current employer within the next 2 years. Some large firms have turnover rates as high as 25% per year.
- Women lawyers have many fewer children compraed to the general population in their age group, whereas men lawyers do not have the overwhelming difference.
- People in all sectors, private, government, non-profit, etc., all work very hard, but somehow, mid-sized firms in DC work the hardest.
- People in government and public interest earn nothing but are happier about their job than people in the private sector, but not as much as you'd think.
- It really pays to go to a top 1-10 school.

Another hurricane may be coming! This is scary...