This year, The National Law Journalagain piggybacked on the American Lawyer‘s midlevel satisfaction survey with a questionnaire so random, so fluffy or so soul-piercing that only roughly 300 mid-levels dared to answer every question. Lest you believe that the questionnaire was a joke, here are some leading findings:
A third of midlevels favor eliminating the last year of law school, but only 14% would eliminate law firm libraries. Third year of law school is universally called worthless in textual responses, but many praise it as a chance to relax and to lower one’s golf score. Several litigators remark that the library is “a good place to hide.” Carole Bellis is lobbying to have the library at Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich converted into a coffee bar and lounge. Billmore Baggins, a Minneapolis greedy associate, notes, “Books look cool filling a wall.”
