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It’s going to be not possible each within the brief and long run to return near the wealth I may have gathered for myself and my household had I remained in [Biglaw]. I used to be lucky sufficient to have the ability to simply barely repay my pupil loans earlier than leaving.
— Siunik Moradian, a former company affiliate at Simpson Thacher, in feedback given to Bloomberg Law, regarding his profession plans after he loudly give up the agency on the identical day it introduced making a take care of Trump. “I cannot sleepwalk towards authoritarianism,” Moradian wrote in a departure memo that soon went viral. Since then, he’s determined to enter public protection “given all that’s occurring to the degradation of basic human rights within the US, notably underneath this authoritarian administration.” He went on to check his new wage to his Biglaw wage, remarking, “I’m hesitant to say ‘woe is me’ when even my wage as a public defender shall be above the median within the US.”
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