NYC Bar Chief Worries Young Lawyers Aren’t ‘Grinding’

Welcome back to New York Brief Q&A, where Empire State lawyers humor my question list to tell me what makes them tick.

This week, I heard from Muhammad Faridi, a partner at Linklaters and the president of the New York City Bar Association.

Before Faridi joined the New York office of the “Magic Circle” firm, he worked as a livery cab driver while getting his undergrad degree and JD from CUNY. He also clerked for Brooklyn federal Judge Jack B. Weinstein and taught at Fordham Law.

In private practice, Faridi scored a historically massive $2 billion judgment for ...