As the founder of mega-popular blogs Underneath Their Robes and Above the Law, along with his current Substack publication, Original Jurisdiction, writer and recruiter David Lat has been chronicling the weird world of Big Law culture for nearly two decades.

So there's arguably no one more qualified than him to discuss the PowerPoint presentation heard 'round the industry, in which a senior associate at Paul Hastings advised junior corporate associates that they must be "online 24/7" and that their clients "expect everything to be done perfectly and delivered yesterday."