A Roundtable With Millennial Lawyers – A Different Perspective

INTRODUCTION

There has been a recent flurry of articles aimed at and about "millennial" lawyers -- but not many of these articles are written by millennials themselves.

Millennials are frequently used as a convenient punching bag by law firms, partially to avoid some of the real issues they face today. That is one of the reasons for this article.

A second genesis was seeing firms misspending lots of energy and time debating what they consider the downsides of this generation. Those complaints are along these lines:

• Lack the same work ethic;
• Lack a real commitment and loyalty to the firms;
• Have unrealistic life expectations;
• They are too focused on technology;
• Have been sheltered from reality of life and work;