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17 Nova L. Rev. 951 (1992-1993)

handle is hein.journals/novalr17 and id is 983 raw text is: Becoming a Partner Ralph Warner & Toni lhara* My enjoyment of practicing law with a good-size finn was hampered by three factors: I didn't like the work, I didn't like the other lawyers, and I didn't like the clients. Nothing I've done in the years since I quit the law has been nearly as boring.' Everyone who has ever read a book by Louis Auchincloss knows about the rewards of getting to be a partner in a big firm-the $400,000 draw (in a bad year), membership in an all male yacht club, March in the Virgin Islands, etc. Unfortunately, while being a senior partner isn't too hard to take (except for your colleagues), getting to be one is not easily accom- plished. Here are some helpful hints: Hint 1: Start Early. Plan to be born white, male and Protestant. If you can't manage this, try female, black, Buddhist and handicapped-it's hard for even the stuffiest old hardline firm to resist a quadruple minority if, in addition, she is also the editor of the Harvard Law Review and agrees not to bitch about being excluded from the yacht club (see Hint 2, below). Hint 2: Character is Formed in Kindergarten. Not only must you pile your blocks higher than any of the other kids, you must also learn to kick over the piles of the other smart kids without getting caught. Later this will be called aggressive advocacy. Your only goal in your school years is to be number one in everything so that you are sure to be accepted at Yale. (Harvard, Princeton and about thirteen other schools will also work. If you have to ask which ones, consider setting your sights on the legal department of a good-sized insurance company in the Midwest.) Hint 3: The Rewards of Abstinence. When you reach Yale, you must study maniacally so that you graduate with honors, get 750 on your law boards, and are accepted at Harvard Law School (there are eight, maybe ten, other law schools that will keep you on the partnership ladder and several hundred or so others that won't). * Reprinted with permission from Nolo Press. RALPH WARNER & TONI IHARA, 29 REASONS NOT TO GO To LAw SCHOOL 142 (1987). 1. Robert Flaherty, University of Michigan Law School, currently a restaurateur.

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