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&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-STYLE: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic&quot;&gt;I&amp;#8217;ve been meaning to see &lt;em&gt;Michael Clayton&lt;/em&gt;, but after reading this&amp;nbsp; review&amp;nbsp;by&amp;nbsp; Patrick Radden Keefe, I&amp;#8217;ve&amp;nbsp; moved it to the top of my Netflix queue.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Some the excerpts below suggest that students heading into BigLaw might want to give the movie a miss.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;?xml:namespace prefix=&quot;o&quot; ns=&quot;urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office&quot;?&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&quot;But beneath the expertly deployed suspense lies something more interesting: an indictment of the mercenary universe of white-shoe law firms and a devastating&amp;#8212;and unusually accurate&amp;#8212;look at the demoralized lives of the lawyers who work for them.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Michael Clayton&lt;/em&gt; offers an only slightly exaggerated portrait of a profession undergoing a kind of slow-motion existential crisis. It does so at a time when in the real world, midlevel associates are dropping out in droves.&amp;#8221;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&quot;Do the studies showing high rates of depression among lawyers tell us something about the profession or the people who go into it? [The character played by Tilda Swinton] is a neurotic and a perfectionist; in that respect, she&#39;s the kind of lawyer you want on your team. (She will worry so that you don&#39;t have to.) But if that&#39;s the self-selecting type who migrates to the law, it seems unfair to ask them to be happy as well. &quot;I fear that happiness isn&#39;t in my line,&quot; Benjamin Cardozo observed in 1933, blaming &#39;the disposition that was given to me at birth.&#39;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;Yikes.&amp;nbsp; (Note also that &quot;unusually accurate&quot; and &quot;only slightly exaggerated&quot; are synonyms w/r/t Hollywood movies.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot; align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;-posted by brian&lt;/p&gt;

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