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Lucy Roberts-Widdison

Oct 13, 2026

55:01
But like, what are you sensing about how this is shaking out for students now, but then even sort of longer term, like if students take a job that they're may- maybe not happy with?
55:09
with?You know, the thing that I really want to communicate to 1Ls, and I wish that I understood better last year, is that the best thing that plaintiffs law can buy you is more time, and that is a hot commodity [laughs] as a 1L.
55:25
Um, it gives you the time to focus on your classes and actually learning what you want to do in, like, this whole new field that you...
55:35
even if you think you know it, you don't know it.
55:38
But I think there's also an upshot to this, um, for plaintiffs' attorneys, and that's because this massive never-ending race to the bottom among big law firms is creating a culture that is not conducive to intellectual curiosity, to developing your own, like, skills as an attorney.
55:58
And even among my friends that are going into big law, I'm noticing a culture that's much more pro-plaintiff than it would've been otherwise.
56:06
And so I think that in this, like, race to secure talent as fast as humanly possible, what big law firms are really doing is that they're burning goodwill, and they're pretty good at that.
56:49
I'm just curious if you can share that.

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