Every young lawyer who seeks a job with a Bay Street firm makes the following painful discoveries of the firm's senior partners: 1) they value only quality work and productivity, 2)  they frown on any junior associate's attempts to maintain a life outside the office; and 3) they can be rude and extremely demanding.

Hadyia believed that she was singled out for being black, but what she went through was a common experience of all 1st year associates.   They commonly feel used, abused, and treated like a slave.  Those who survive and achieve a rewarding legal career do so because they either love the law or they truly enjoy helping their clients succeed.  Nowhere in her article did she show any concern for the clients of these firms or the intrinsic challenge of the work itself.  The bottom line is that she quit Faskens.  Then she quit the boutique firm.  When she pursued Faskens again, they rejected her - not because she was black, but because she was a quitter.