Money Matters, But So Does the Work, New Law Grads Say

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Money Matters, But So Does the Work, New Law Grads Say

Posted May 27, 2008, 11:30 am CDT
By Martha Neil

Money matters. But some new associates are prepared to make a bit less in exchange for a better lifestyle.

“I’m not going to lie,” Sebastian Kurian, who starts this fall at Miles & Stockbridge, tells the Daily Record. “It definitely played a big role, but at the same time, Miles pays extremely well, but not as well as the D.C. firms and even some Delaware firms and firms in Baltimore."

Like other new law grads interviewed the Maryland business publication, Kurian says there is a balance to be struck between top pay and enjoying one's job. For Nina Basu, who, like Kurian, earned her J.D. degree from the University of Maryland, and is headed to McGuireWoods, the quality of the firm's work was part of the bottom line.

“I chose specifically to go with a national firm rather than a regional or local firm because the kind of work they get is so interesting and more varied,” she says.

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