Thought I'd juice it up with some more confessions about bill-raping the clients. If you're not one of those assholes who lives a block away from the firm, one of the few perks of working in biglaw is the car home, not to mention the free meal on the client if you're "working late." Obviously, it's not that big a perk monetarily, but there's something plainly aristocratic about being able to order a dinner for forty to fifty dollars depending on your firm's max allowance and not having to ride public transportation with the rest of the pleebs.



Fair to say "working late" has led to some royal abuses by this associate. First of all, if I've worked over five billing hours -- guess what, I'm taking a car home that day, I don't give a fuck if it was from 8-1 pm in the afternoon. And if I'm in the office a minute past six, there's going to be dinner waiting for me on my way out the door.



Btw -- is it wrong that I've never once eaten dinner in the office? Honestly, I can't think of anything worse than dinner in the office, which is why I like to take the dinner home with me.

