{"id":133140,"date":"2025-09-11T15:18:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T23:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/09\/11\/biglaw-not-awful-according-to-some-midlevel-associates\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T15:18:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T23:18:46","slug":"biglaw-not-awful-according-to-some-midlevel-associates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/09\/11\/biglaw-not-awful-according-to-some-midlevel-associates\/","title":{"rendered":"Biglaw Not \u2018Awful\u2019 According To Some Midlevel Associates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

I thought it would be awful, and it\u2019s mostly ok.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 <\/i>An anonymous Am Law 100 associate\u2019s response to a question found in the\u00a0American Lawyer Midlevel Associates Survey<\/a>\u00a0about what surprised them the most about working at their current <\/strong>firm. More notable and quotable responses can be found\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

I thought it would be awful, and it\u2019s mostly ok.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 <\/i>An anonymous Am Law 100 associate\u2019s response to a question found in the\u00a0American Lawyer Midlevel Associates Survey<\/a>\u00a0about what surprised them the most about working at their current <\/strong>firm. More notable and quotable responses can be found\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. I thought it would be awful, and it\u2019s mostly ok. \u2014 An anonymous Am Law 100 associate\u2019s response to a question found in the\u00a0American Lawyer Midlevel Associates Survey\u00a0about what surprised them the most about working at their current firm. More notable and quotable responses […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":133141,"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-133140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Staci-Zaretsky-9jKYbQ.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133140","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=133140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}