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Originally Posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I don't think it's lunacy. On the one hand, I feel like it's money out of my pocket and another bump on my road to early retirement. On the other, the market is what the market is, the associates work extremely hard -- around the clock generally without complaint and have massive student loans. Why shouldn't they get a raise?
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My comment was half in jest. Yes, it's all the market.
My biggest worry is this - in the past I've relied on big law to give me good well trained (if much abused) mid level associates; I have hired out of those places.
They train corporate associates for shit now, because they focus them too early on two narrow a space in order to justify the rates. So now they raid me for mid-level and senior associates who can actually think, and I can't use the people they're done with, since I can train a second or third year to be a better corporate generalist than their myopic fifth years.
