Roll on Friday’s Annual Associate Survey Turns Up Some Cracker Quotes, “the deal should be to get the drafting right at 7pm like a normal firm, not wrong at 1am like the Americans.”

Others include

Most of the partners have no respect for home life. I have a young daughter who I rarely see in the evenings.”

“I now spend that little bit more of my personal time in someone’s armpit on the tube than with my kids, but hey we’re now just like any other firm so can’t complain, apparently…”,

“We don’t get paid the riches of Crassus to have a work life balance,” says a Kirkland & Ellis senior associate. “I can however afford a five bed in Zone 2.”

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