"When the market goes up, you are [the firm's] money-making machine," the comment from Lawsman starts. "You will be exhausted, but they will keep you well-oiled and well-fed. But once the market is seizing up, you will be cast aside as a worn-out tool even though you still work efficiently."It is an ominous warning and one that reflects the sentiments of so many dime-a-dozen comments on legal blogs such as Above the Law, Greedy Associates and RollonFriday. Young lawyers in the US and UK are a vociferous, demanding lot. And now, it seems, young Chinese lawyers are doing the same.
May 13, 2009 at 11:28 PM
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The original version of this story was published on Legalweek
The slowing China legal market gets its own RollonFriday as irreverent legal website Totoo
lifts the lid on life at the top firms active in China.
Anthony Lin reports
“When the market goes up, you are [the firm's] money-making machine,” the comment from Lawsman starts. “You will be exhausted, but they will keep you well-oiled and well-fed. But once the market is seizing up, you will be cast aside as a worn-out tool even though you still work efficiently.”
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