I’ve seen associates that have built personal brands about their families experience negative performance reviews only attributable to their use of social media. I personally don’t believe there is any room within traditional law firms to build a meaningful personal brand. It’s a very fast way for a young attorney to destroy their career.
— Eric Pacifici, the founding partner of SMB Law Group, in comments given to the Legal Intelligencer, on lawyers’ use of social media within the incredibly rigid confines of Biglaw. Pacifici is an alumnus of Gibson Dunn and Kirkland & Ellis, and he began tweeting anonymously while he still worked in Biglaw. “We’re a very risk-averse profession,” he said.
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