Caption Contest: For Want of a Biglaw Banana

What would you do if your Biglaw firm wasn’t providing you with the kind of nutritious breakfast foods that you oh so desperately need in order to sit in front of a computer all day and troll the comments on Above the Law draft documents? You’d probably whine and moan about your first-world problems to all of your similarly situated friends before even deigning to consider that you could bring your own damn bananas to work.

That’s exactly what everyone’s bitching about at one Biglaw firm, which to be quite frank, is bananas (B-A-N-A-N-A-S!)….

Some Kirkland associates might have beaten Cravath on bonuses, but bananas are another story entirely:

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The Biglaw Flowchart That Tells You When You Can Leave The Office

ByElie Mystal

We’ve all been there. It’s Friday. It’s 5:30 p.m. The rest of the working world is already well into their weekend, their three-day weekend.

But you’re not sure if you can leave. You work in Biglaw, and you don’t know if it’s okay to simply get up from your desk and re-join the rest of free humanity.

Well here’s something that can help you. A former Biglaw associate made a handy chart to let you know when it’s okay to leave….

A tipster sent us a link to something his friend put up about life in Biglaw. It’s funny. It’s also pretty much exactly accurate. HTH.

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