Prospective law students, some things to look forward to at many firms: - Wannabe litigators, most of your cases will settle. You'll spend agonizing hours prep

Prospective law students, some things to look forward to at many firms: - Wannabe litigators, most of your cases will settle. You'll spend agonizing hours preparing and rarely see a courtroom battle. Your time will spent posturing for your client and opposing counsel, pandering to your client's aspirational fantasies of outcome, and dealing with internal office politics. When you do make it to Court inept Judges and unsympathetic clients will weigh on you. - Transactional attorneys, your eyes will bleed from the thousands of pages of boilerplate text you're going be reading every day, and the copy & paste keys on your keyboard will be worn beyond recognition. The dissonance between helping clients manage risk (ghost chasing) and not screwing up their deals will be maddening. - The pressure to bring in business can be crushing. You signed on to practice law, only to find out it soon becomes a sales, marketing and customer service gig.