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Top corporate firms with good work life balance?
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<blockquote data-quote="Romiras" data-source="post: 109361" data-attributes="member: 1993"><p>I think you should define what "Good" or "Decent" work life balance means to you in terms of hours (a week and perhaps yearly billable average). Similarly, what does "great work" mean to you?</p><p></p><p>You should also consider and define whether you can tolerate ungodly hours (e.g. working at 3am) versus working on average, bad hours (e.g. working from 9am to 9pm). </p><p></p><p>If you are looking for a firm that does tier 1 (or 2), mid to large cap deals, that has deals that shows up regularly on BBC, the FT, etc, that lets you clock off at 5pm (easily), then, frankly, it doesn't exist.</p><p></p><p>You absolutely also have to consider the practice area. Private Equity / M&A, for example, has terrible hours, both in terms of when you are expected to be online and working, and in terms of average hours you'll be expected to push out. Litigation can be more consistent (but this is also overstated, as there are plenty of litigation associates getting rushed and beasted).</p><p></p><p>Silver Circle firms do not work much less than their MC counterparts, especially in transactional seats.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Romiras, post: 109361, member: 1993"] I think you should define what "Good" or "Decent" work life balance means to you in terms of hours (a week and perhaps yearly billable average). Similarly, what does "great work" mean to you? You should also consider and define whether you can tolerate ungodly hours (e.g. working at 3am) versus working on average, bad hours (e.g. working from 9am to 9pm). If you are looking for a firm that does tier 1 (or 2), mid to large cap deals, that has deals that shows up regularly on BBC, the FT, etc, that lets you clock off at 5pm (easily), then, frankly, it doesn't exist. You absolutely also have to consider the practice area. Private Equity / M&A, for example, has terrible hours, both in terms of when you are expected to be online and working, and in terms of average hours you'll be expected to push out. Litigation can be more consistent (but this is also overstated, as there are plenty of litigation associates getting rushed and beasted). Silver Circle firms do not work much less than their MC counterparts, especially in transactional seats. [/QUOTE]
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