After graduating from McGill Law School in 2007, Patrick Murdoch moved to New York for a job as an associate at Shearman & Sterling, and prepared for a new chapter as a high-powered lawyer. Pretty quickly, it dawned on him he’d made a poor lifestyle choice.
An avalanche of work poured down on him in his four years at Shearman.
“At one point we got an email saying, ‘When you wake up in the morning, you don’t brush your teeth, you look at your phone,’” said Murdoch.
That was in 2009, when the firm was preparing for trial in the ...
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