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I know what it feels like to be paid less - substantially less - than the male lawyer in the office next to me.

The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean, sometimes on these six-minute increments. So you're not focused on doing a good job. You're focused on hitting your numbers. It's one reason why lawyers typically are so unhappy. And I want a world of happy lawyers.

Being a lawyer in New York sucks because you're working eighty, sometimes a hundred hours a week.

I'm a hard headed lawyer.

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

You have various institutions like law firms and accounting firms which bill by the hour. I'm really against that. You have an incentive to go slowly, be there as long as possible, to over-research things and over-staff.

Nobody wants to be a lawyer - it's hard work. But it was kind of my academic route.

If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.

Not a law firm in the entire city of New York bid for my employment as a lawyer when I earned my degree.