Emmet Bondurant advises young attorneys to choose a law firm very carefully and once they have done so to take responsibility for themselves. He acknowledges that the practice of law has changed and believes that it is cyclical. “The lawyers who you recruited in the late sixties and the early seventies were very idealistic, and in the eighties they were dreadfully materialistic. It was the era of greed is good, how much are you going to pay me, how big a house can I get, how soon can I join a country club kind of thing. There was very little interest in pro bono work or something that wasn’t going to pay them directly. In the nineties that started to shift back in the other direction as firms have gotten much larger.”
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