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Ig the only way they'll change is when clients start reading as well or when the SEO becomes so good that their toxic subs are the first thing which pops up when googled.
This is a weird take, I guess. But I'm dead sure the boomers have lost it. The boomers are NOT okay. One of the seniors (by years of practice only) who has been in the profession for close to three decades now, asked me to assist the said senior on a matter. It was the said senior's matter, appearance being filed just after I began associating with the said individual. I really put a lot of work into the matter, though it was neither my matter, nor my VP, nor my client. In retrospect, I shouldn't have. That's on me. Lessons learnt.
The matter in question came to be adjourned from time to time, giving the said senior LOT of time to go through my file for his arguments on admission. For nearly 5-6 months, this individual refused to touch that file. The matter came up today for admission. I regularly updated the file with recent developments. Concerned (though i shouldn't be for Not-My-Briefs), I legit had to sit that individual down yesterday to at least orally tell him what to focus on in the file, to save the senior's time even further, and ensure the individual could substantially argue on admission today. The said individual even yesterday, despite my oral briefing did not touch the file. A matter which could have been disposed at a nascent stage shall now remain pending for God knows how many years. My efforts down the drain.
This is a pattern for the said individual. Though fecking millets (peanuts is too rich for the measly payment), I get a few.
The boomers charge the clients handsomely. Clients with capacity pay. Not my concern, but that's how it is. Despite all this, these people don't even bother to look up what their junior associates have prepared for them. Juniors are spoon-feeding these individuals to no avail. How the hell do these people who don't even read the matters get clients, and those like us are thrown scraps off their table? Yep, life is unfair and all, but these boomers got no conscience, I guess. There wasn't even the slightest of an attempt made, on any of the occasions when the matter came up. The HonCt. was willing to hear out the matter on earlier occasions.
And no, before anyone asks, that was not a part of the plan.
And yes, before anyone asks, I legit searched for this thread because I really need to vent. Venting is all that I can do now, waiting at the filing department till his majesty, the department clerk makes an appearance.