Wondering what it's really like to work in one of the world's largest law firms? How to get a job in a Big Law firm potentially making $230,000 per year or more? What it really takes to earn a promotion to partner in a Big Law firm? Whatever your questions about Big Law, and whoever you are, this book is for you."Big Law" is a term used to describe the largest for-profit law firms, which each employ hundreds to thousands of attorneys and other staff, and generate hundreds of millions to billions of dollars in revenues each year from selling legal services.Big Law firms are some of the wealthiest, and most powerful, influential, and secretive, organizations in the modern professional world. Never before has a partner or leader at a Big Law firm disclosed detailed information about the inner workings of, and comprehensively described what it's really like to work in, a Big Law firm. Until now.Called a and "must-read and " by leading legal commentary website Above the Law, Big Law Confidential is a truly comprehensive guide, with detailed information, suggestions for consideration, resources, and actionable tips and tricks, on nearly every question and topic relating to legal practice in Big Law firms operating in the U.S.Big Law Confidential enables readers (i) understand what Big Law is, who the players are in Big Law firms, how Big Law firms operate and are managed, and how Big Law firms make money;(ii) get a very good sense of what working at a Big Law firm can be like, including a minute-by-minute look at what a day in the life of a Big Law firm attorney might be like;(iii) learn about how Big Law firms recruit, hire, train, compensate, evaluate, treat, promote, and terminate summer associates and attorneys - including what it really takes to get a job offer with a Big Law firm or earn a promotion to partner;(iv) decide whether a career in Big Law may be the right choice for them; and(v) maximize success and make the most of, any time working in Big Law, and with opportunities thereafter.