"Now this is the life." Lounging on the beach in the Caribbean with a cocktail in hand and the pressures of the office left behind, Lousia Munroe has managed to take a vacation from her dull legal career. A long deserved vacation from a career that has been lacking substance and challenge.
Corporate law…..what was I thinking getting into corporate law, or any type of law for that matter. It has taken me six years to realize I can take a vacation without the "world" coming to an end, not to mention a big resounding "no, you'll have to try next year for partnership". Those words have echoed in my head constantly the past month; since my review with supervising partner Matthew Reinhold.
I have put my whole being into my career and I am no further ahead now than I was when I first started. How "green" I was when I first walked into Higgins & Higgins LLP, thinking the world is my oyster, I'll be partner in less than 7 years. Boy was I wrong. What I would give to beat some sense into the writers of movies and television shows depicting lawyers as living glamorous, fast paced lives. They couldn't be more wrong.
