Comments on: Our Millionth Hit & The Firm Spy Transparency Mission

By: law game oldie

law game oldie — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 03:27:21 +0000

If university students are smart, they will not become lawyers. You get no thanks from your clients, you work long hours, you get little remuneration for the long hours in return, the laws change every 5 minutes and you have to be up to date. If you walk out the door at 5pm then you are frowned upon from your colleagues. You don’t have a life! Stay away from big law firms as they treat you like mushrooms and feed you bs and keep you in the dark. They spit you out and chew you up when you are burnt out! Go work in a shop or a cafe on the beach in the Greek Islands and live a little!

By: Law Student

Law Student — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 09:20:07 +0000

You have definitely succeeded in your goal to inform and enlighten naive law students of the reality of the legal industry and practice. Keep up the good work!

By: Fin Review

Fin Review — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 02:32:28 +0000

You guys wouldn’t happen to be affiliated with the Fin Review, would you? All this sucking up to the “excellent” journalism done there is starting to sound a bit suspicious.

By: Lawyer 2

Lawyer 2 — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:32:11 +0000

This comment is in reference to Lawyer above – doesn’t your comment about there being “no such thing” as a part time business owner go directly to the point FS is labouring? Namely, that all top firms would have grads and those sitting outside it believe that part-time partnership is a real prospect, when the opposite is true. The transparency that this forum provides is a great asset to graduates and new lawyers (like me) who want to know sooner rather than later exactly what they’re signing up for. And as you’ve just shown, we can’t rely on what the firms tell us

By: Mk

Mk — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:10:25 +0000

Thanks FS especially for your recent post about Michael Kuzilny and links to his acting on youtube

By: Cyril

Cyril — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:40:58 +0000

Would love to see where Tanja Maley ends up in 5, 10 and 15 years.

She might even be unlucky enough to get what she wishes for!

Oh yeah, thanks to Firm Spy for creating such an interesting site. Sure, there’s bigger issues in this world than how much Senior Associates get paid, but there’s nothing like hearing my peers at the “prestige” firms whinging and moaning!

By: Midnight Train

Midnight Train — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:23:53 +0000

Completely agree with what Relevant said.

It is obvious from the comments posted on this site over the past 12 months that partners, HR staff and senior law firm management monitor this blog – so you guys must be doing something right.

Keep it up.

By: Hear Ye! » Show me someone who wants to work long hours and I’ll show you…

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:05:49 +0000

[...] FirmSpy excerpted a few parts from this year’s AFR (Law) Partnership Survey. The first one caught my eye: Third year Maquarie University law student Tanja Maley says she hopes to become a partner in a top commercial firm, and everything else – family included – can follow. “I want a fast city life and I want the long hours”, she says. “I don’t think I’d be satisfied if I wasn’t challenged in that respect.” [...]

By: Relevant

Relevant — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:03:04 +0000

@ Irrelevant

surely your visit to the site today goes to relevance?

By: Anon

Anon — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:36:08 +0000

Keep up the good work FS. As Ace implied, someone had to fill the void the Democrats left…

By: Irrelevant

Irrelevant — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:53:02 +0000

The hostile and generalist views published by this site in respect of partners are no more relevant today than when you first commenced operating

By: Anon

Anon — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:49:23 +0000

Thx for the entertainment FS!

By: Lawyer

Lawyer — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:38:01 +0000

There’s no such thing as a part-time business owner. You either are a business owner or you aren’t. There isn’t a gossip blog for the micro-business operators around the place who work longer hours than partners of law firms for a tiny fraction of the reward. Think the local baker or newsagent gets to switch off? Think they make $1.5m a year either? There are plenty of options available to lawyers of all kinds in Australia. BUT they can’t all involve earning a zillion dollars without working hard and making tough life choices. Make the choice that suits you, simple as that. And if you don’t like the choice you made, change your mind. Just be prepared to take home less coin. It isn’t cut throat, it’s realistic.

By: Ace

Ace — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:35:42 +0000

Although I don’t always agree with viciousness of your site, keep on keeping the bastards honest