{"id":109243,"date":"2025-02-25T17:43:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T01:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/02\/25\/lawyer-on-survivor-if-i-lose-im-going-to-biglaw\/"},"modified":"2025-02-25T17:43:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T01:43:30","slug":"lawyer-on-survivor-if-i-lose-im-going-to-biglaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/02\/25\/lawyer-on-survivor-if-i-lose-im-going-to-biglaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawyer on Survivor: \u2018If I Lose, I\u2019m Going to Biglaw\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Committing to expose yourself to both the elements and Jeff Probst for weeks and yet we all know that Biglaw is still more dehumanizing. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s the takeaway from this this interview with upcoming contestant Kyle Fraser, an attorney from Virginia who was asked by Entertainment Weekly <\/a>to decide on a brutal punishment for themselves if they end up being voted out first. While some promised to give up weed for two years or stop watching Survivor<\/em> (sounds like a reward to me), Fraser knew the unspeakable horror he\u2019d subject himself to if the castaways boot him first:<\/p>\n

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I have done white collar criminal defense at larger firms, which I very much enjoyed, but I want to eventually segue to more of a public interest job. My fianc\u00e9e has given me this leeway, and my expectation is to bring home the gold on\u00a0Survivor<\/em>. That said, if I get voted out first and I don\u2019t get that gold, then I\u2019m working at a big law firm. That\u2019s my punishment. I know that\u2019s really lame and corny, but I\u2019m going to go make the big bucks. I\u2019m going to give myself a little bit of license to not try and save the world just yet. I\u2019m going to go grind it out at a law firm and try and make the big bucks. That\u2019s my punishment. Any lawyer knows that that\u2019s a pretty difficult thing to do.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Some EW reader will confront you as their lawyer friend and sneer that \u201chis PUNISHMENT is making more money\u201d and you will be magically transported to that jungle and go full Colonel Kurtz softly repeating, \u201cthe horror\u2026 the horror\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

Good luck, Kyle. All the snake bites and malnourishment is worth it.<\/p>\n

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\"Headshot\"Joe Patrice<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer<\/a>. Feel free to\u00a0email<\/a> any tips, questions, or comments. Follow him on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0or Bluesky<\/a> if you\u2019re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news. Joe also serves as a Managing Director at RPN Executive Search<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Lawyer on Survivor: \u2018If I Lose, I\u2019m Going to Biglaw\u2019<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Committing to expose yourself to both the elements and Jeff Probst for weeks and yet we all know that Biglaw is still more dehumanizing. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s the takeaway from this this interview with upcoming contestant Kyle Fraser, an attorney from Virginia who was asked by Entertainment Weekly <\/a>to decide on a brutal punishment for themselves if they end up being voted out first. While some promised to give up weed for two years or stop watching Survivor<\/em> (sounds like a reward to me), Fraser knew the unspeakable horror he\u2019d subject himself to if the castaways boot him first:<\/p>\n

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I have done white collar criminal defense at larger firms, which I very much enjoyed, but I want to eventually segue to more of a public interest job. My fianc\u00e9e has given me this leeway, and my expectation is to bring home the gold on\u00a0Survivor<\/em>. That said, if I get voted out first and I don\u2019t get that gold, then I\u2019m working at a big law firm. That\u2019s my punishment. I know that\u2019s really lame and corny, but I\u2019m going to go make the big bucks. I\u2019m going to give myself a little bit of license to not try and save the world just yet. I\u2019m going to go grind it out at a law firm and try and make the big bucks. That\u2019s my punishment. Any lawyer knows that that\u2019s a pretty difficult thing to do.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Some EW reader will confront you as their lawyer friend and sneer that \u201chis PUNISHMENT is making more money\u201d and you will be magically transported to that jungle and go full Colonel Kurtz softly repeating, \u201cthe horror\u2026 the horror\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

Good luck, Kyle. All the snake bites and malnourishment is worth it.<\/p>\n

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\"Headshot\"Joe Patrice<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer<\/a>. Feel free to\u00a0email<\/a> any tips, questions, or comments. Follow him on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0or Bluesky<\/a> if you\u2019re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news. Joe also serves as a Managing Director at RPN Executive Search<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Committing to expose yourself to both the elements and Jeff Probst for weeks and yet we all know that Biglaw is still more dehumanizing. That\u2019s the takeaway from this this interview with upcoming contestant Kyle Fraser, an attorney from Virginia who was asked by Entertainment Weekly to decide on a brutal punishment for themselves if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}