Comments on: Exclusive research: Gen Z aspiring lawyers seek ‘friendly’ firms with good pay and top quality work https://www.legalcheek.com/2023/05/exclusive-research-gen-z-aspiring-lawyers-seek-friendly-firms-with-good-pay-and-top-quality-work/ Legal news, insider insight and careers advice Tue, 23 May 2023 15:29:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: Slade https://www.legalcheek.com/2023/05/exclusive-research-gen-z-aspiring-lawyers-seek-friendly-firms-with-good-pay-and-top-quality-work/#comment-1175650 Tue, 23 May 2023 15:29:29 +0000 https://www.legalcheek.com/?p=185748#comment-1175650 In reply to Nursie.

This, and also the various responses to Anon above, are borderline ageist IMO.

Yes, Gen Z have different expectations, that is not surprising. My personal experience and observation is that the quality of successive trainees over the last 5+ years has noticeably declined, yet is accompanied by expectations of ever-higher NQ salaries and dismay at long working hours. What does this mean for the future of the legal profession? Time will tell.

]]> By: Snowflake https://www.legalcheek.com/2023/05/exclusive-research-gen-z-aspiring-lawyers-seek-friendly-firms-with-good-pay-and-top-quality-work/#comment-1175416 Fri, 19 May 2023 07:50:40 +0000 https://www.legalcheek.com/?p=185748#comment-1175416 In reply to Anon.

100% of respondents expressed a desire not to work at whatever firm you’re at

]]> By: Nursie https://www.legalcheek.com/2023/05/exclusive-research-gen-z-aspiring-lawyers-seek-friendly-firms-with-good-pay-and-top-quality-work/#comment-1175394 Thu, 18 May 2023 14:59:02 +0000 https://www.legalcheek.com/?p=185748#comment-1175394 In reply to Outrage.

Have you been watching GB News again? Matron has told you it’s not good for you. Now, let’s find your blood pressure pills and get you a nice cuppa, shall we?

]]> By: Reality bites https://www.legalcheek.com/2023/05/exclusive-research-gen-z-aspiring-lawyers-seek-friendly-firms-with-good-pay-and-top-quality-work/#comment-1175337 Wed, 17 May 2023 12:18:05 +0000 https://www.legalcheek.com/?p=185748#comment-1175337 Survey asks demographic with no idea of the real world realities what they ‘expect’ of their future employer shocker !

It would be interesting to see what the results would be a few years after graduating from the same respondents 🙂

]]> By: Outrage https://www.legalcheek.com/2023/05/exclusive-research-gen-z-aspiring-lawyers-seek-friendly-firms-with-good-pay-and-top-quality-work/#comment-1175332 Wed, 17 May 2023 10:59:57 +0000 https://www.legalcheek.com/?p=185748#comment-1175332 Bunch of snowflakes. This generation just want top pay combined with a 9-5 job and think they are entitled to this because they want to be lawyers. The new generation of trainees is shocking

]]> By: Boomer Alert https://www.legalcheek.com/2023/05/exclusive-research-gen-z-aspiring-lawyers-seek-friendly-firms-with-good-pay-and-top-quality-work/#comment-1175330 Wed, 17 May 2023 10:50:47 +0000 https://www.legalcheek.com/?p=185748#comment-1175330 In reply to Anon.

You probably have a chip on your shoulder because you’re in career purgatory at a middling regional firm, pipe down.

]]> By: Djed https://www.legalcheek.com/2023/05/exclusive-research-gen-z-aspiring-lawyers-seek-friendly-firms-with-good-pay-and-top-quality-work/#comment-1175329 Wed, 17 May 2023 10:49:34 +0000 https://www.legalcheek.com/?p=185748#comment-1175329 Most people want this, this isn’t a special trait of Gen Z…

]]> By: A disgruntled old man https://www.legalcheek.com/2023/05/exclusive-research-gen-z-aspiring-lawyers-seek-friendly-firms-with-good-pay-and-top-quality-work/#comment-1175327 Wed, 17 May 2023 10:30:50 +0000 https://www.legalcheek.com/?p=185748#comment-1175327 In reply to Anon.

So true Anon, back in my day we got paid 2 shillings, a sixpence and a bob a month if we hit our daily 20-hour billable target and we didn’t once complain, we simply made do back then! No wonder this country is going to the dogs…

]]> By: poggers https://www.legalcheek.com/2023/05/exclusive-research-gen-z-aspiring-lawyers-seek-friendly-firms-with-good-pay-and-top-quality-work/#comment-1175323 Wed, 17 May 2023 09:47:10 +0000 https://www.legalcheek.com/?p=185748#comment-1175323 In reply to Anon.

Piss off boomer

]]> By: Anon https://www.legalcheek.com/2023/05/exclusive-research-gen-z-aspiring-lawyers-seek-friendly-firms-with-good-pay-and-top-quality-work/#comment-1175322 Wed, 17 May 2023 09:20:15 +0000 https://www.legalcheek.com/?p=185748#comment-1175322 This is so entitled and delusional. You cannot expect to go into a high performing, high stress and highly demanding profession yet expect to be wrapped in cotton wool and be sheltered from the realities of rigorous expectations. It seems that these students want to have their cake and eat it too. It is part of life to be able to work with people (and work well with them) who do not come across as friendly or likeable. Woe betide the clients of these future lawyers.

]]> By: Puzzled https://www.legalcheek.com/2023/05/exclusive-research-gen-z-aspiring-lawyers-seek-friendly-firms-with-good-pay-and-top-quality-work/#comment-1175321 Wed, 17 May 2023 08:53:46 +0000 https://www.legalcheek.com/?p=185748#comment-1175321 “Lawyers seek ‘friendly’ firms with good pay and top quality work” – what a suprise!!

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