MY LIFE differs from Tom Cruise’s in many ways. Katie Holmes is not the mother of my child, I have never ticked off Brooke Shields, and I stopped rock climbing years ago. But that is not the point.
Since I was a child of the ’80s with no experience of the realities of Big Firm life, my earliest views about how a young lawyer would be treated were shaped by Tom Cruise’s experiences at Bandini, Lambert & Locke in the 1993 movie “The Firm” which is based on the novel by John Grisham, in case you were living in a hole or regularly billing 2,600 hours during that decade.
