SOMEBODY tell Greedy Associates that the days of universal avarice and exhaustion are over. The message that flashed recently across the biting Web site seemed like a cruel joke: “Are you overworked? Underpaid? Want your life back?”

Those are not the questions that corporate associates in Palo Alto, Calif., are asking themselves these days – the ones, that is, who still have a job. Yet head east to the litigation mills of Manhattan, and you’ll find weary associates there are begging for a break – if not to catch up on sleep, then to spend hefty year-end bonuses ranging from $20,000 to $50,000 a pop. What gives?

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