October 31st, 2007
How to Make Partner: Choosing the Right Halloween Costume
Halloween is upon us, which leads to one of the more traumatic decisions in a young attorney’s life: whether or not to wear a Halloween costume to the office.
Actually, the correct decision is very simple: don’t wear a costume. If you don’t wear a costume, your secretary may call you a “party pooper.” If that’s the worst charge your assistant is going to make against you in your entire law career, take it. Because the downside of wearing a costume is years of ridicule by everyone in the firm and/or putting your partnership chances in jeopardy.
Nevertheless, every year across America thousands of young attorneys make the mistake of wearing a Halloween costume to work on October 31st. They think it’s important for them to “fit in” with everyone else by wearing a costume, and yet paradoxically, they think it is important that they have one day a year to “express their personality.” If you decide not to take our advice and wear a costume, please follow these simple rules to minimize the damage.
(And always remember: you weren’t hired to express your personality. Except during recruiting).
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