If you talk to a lot of ex-law firm employees, they’ll typically blame the firm, high billable-hour requirements, or lack of control over their calendars as reasons they failed at the firm (and yes, it is a failure). But in reality, many former law firm employees can more likely blame their own personalities for their failures, and not anything the firm did.
Law firm life is not for everyone. Everyone knows this. Some Harvard types can’t cut it, while some community college grads make it to the top. What separates the two may have less to do with intelligence than it has to do with personality.
With that in mind, here are some common personality traits of law firm failures:
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