A few days ago, the class suddenly became lively. A female classmate stopped being a lawyer and changed careers.
Fingers quickly gesticulating, "Another beautiful lawyer is missing" all kinds of expression packs, boys lined up, I looked at it silently.
In recent years, I have become accustomed to seeing lawyers leave their jobs, which is nothing new for both men and women.
Her portrait is a selfie, which is not low in value according to my harsh same-sex aesthetic. Before resigning, I noticed that the background wall of the company behind her was a media, so I pulled a small box and asked her why.
On the subway home, we chatted through the screen.
"From the very beginning, I knew that being a lawyer depended on professionalism, and I didn't intend to rely on appearance." She has no doubt about her face value.
"But I didn't expect that being beautiful turned out to be a disadvantage in this industry."
Her opening remarks made me feel very fresh. I think of those female lawyers who have done interviews and urged manuscripts. Some are glamorous and some don't wear makeup. They have never heard anyone talk about the influence of "beauty" on the legal cause.
Finally, she asked me, are beautiful girls really unfit to be female lawyers?
Where do you start?
Being beautiful should be an advantage of any industry. Is the legal profession really so unique?
In the first year of graduation, I often saw her internship experience in my circle of friends, often meeting clients with my master and doing something independently. Everything seems to be going well. Wearing decent clothes and delicate makeup, running and yoga are all full of energy.
Gradually, the status of hair is less. After one year of formal practice, there are only dry goods forwarded in the circle of friends.
Judging from what she says now, her successful legal career is only one year's internship. Good-looking and polite, the master is willing to take her when she goes out, giving her many learning opportunities and growing rapidly.
After getting the practice license, the situation has become somewhat different. When she practiced independently, the original harmonious negotiation relationship began to be tense, and the clients who issued legal opinions were always dissatisfied. Some clients who come directly to consult almost never choose her as their agent.
"Customers who are too good-looking will inevitably worry that your professional ability is not too hard!" A word of comfort from the master became the fuse of her career change.
Strong outside and hollow inside? If you think about this sentence carefully, the causal inference is groundless and the logical relationship is untenable. After seven years of legal education, high flyers gave up his career as a lawyer.
Outsiders can see clearly, and I can probably understand her predicament.
"Beauty needs to be managed", which is deeply rooted in people's hearts, may be an annotation to her troubles.
Colleagues interviewed Naifeisha Nihmat, the head of the NPL restructuring and bankruptcy team of Dacheng Shanghai Office, a famous beauty lawyer in Xinjiang. After she came back, she always felt that the beauty of female lawyers was "not easy".
I always handle several cases at the same time, such as meetings, training and speeches. I have been traveling like a trapeze artist, and I have to take care of my family and children. I can only sleep five or six hours a day. I don't know how she has time to think about the color numbers of eye shadow and lipstick, and "which skirt should I wear today".
However, she still set aside enough time for "staying beautiful". The work is full. Take a rest to exercise and keep fit. The usual beauty maintenance is done by carrying all kinds of convenient beauty gadgets in the car.
For a beautiful lawyer who is recognized as a "successful person", beauty is her plus point-such a professional lawyer is still so beautiful.
For a young lawyer, beauty is not necessarily an advantage-can such a beautiful woman be professional?
Here, the customer's subtext is that by default, you spend the time that other ordinary women spend on professional promotion on business beauty.
Although there is no argument, although it is partial, is this "default" meaningful? I think there are a lot of makeup matching strategies in my mobile phone, but I don't have time to read them.
The client's image of the lawyer is preset, and your beauty is beyond the preset, which is reduced because of the overall valuation of the lawyer. Therefore, you have to have better professional ability to make up for this part of the influence, that is to say, clients often have higher requirements for the professional skills of so-called "beauty lawyers", which is the "negative effect" of "high face value" in the legal profession.
When she saw this reason, she felt very wronged, so she turned to respond.
In addition, there is another reason she didn't think of. Or have thought of it, but refused to admit it.
Just last month, I went to interview a senior partner of a law firm. When I arrived at the office, my interviewer had just finished an interview.
The interviewer greeted me politely when he left. She is a beautiful girl.
In the subsequent interview, when talking about the training of young lawyers, a beautiful face flashed in my mind, so I asked the interviewer, will that girl be hired like this?
"She is very beautiful. To be honest, I'm a little worried. The work intensity of our law firm is still quite large. "
His meaning is vague and his expression is obscure.
But I get it.
Beautiful girls have always been more likely to be favored and cared for by others, and many high-quality resources can be easily obtained without the efforts of their peers. Or when competing with people with similar abilities, they will win because of their appearance advantages.
To some extent, life has opened a relaxed mode for them.
When they enter the high-pressure competitive environment of the law firm, they often can't settle down and do things in a down-to-earth manner, which is the concern of the partners of the law firm, and this concern is constantly confirmed in the recruitment again and again.
"Beauty lawyers" do face greater pressure. To prove themselves, they need to make more efforts.
At the end of the chat, I gave her some kisses and hugs.
However, I have no sympathy for her.
Because I'm not as beautiful as her.
She and her kind have enjoyed enough preferential treatment along the way. This small difficulty can be overcome if you want to overcome it. If you are too lazy to overcome it, you can change careers.
At the same time, I want to say that when a client chooses a lawyer, her professional level is the final consideration. She resigned, not because she was too beautiful, but because she was not professional enough.