The New Lawyer Supplement
Nov. 25, 2009
Downpour
Whittier Law School grad Jacob Whitehead seized his own destiny and ended up a first-year rainmaker.
I began law school with the all too common notion that the ultimate goal was to land the prestigious big firm job where the new associate spends endless days and nights in the library billing 2,400 hours a year to prove he is worth his six-figure salary. Perhaps I fell victim to the fantasies of too many John Grisham novels, but I anticipated graduating law school with several offers from major firms. I reasoned all I needed to do was to stu...
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