The Firm Themes

This Study Guide consists of approximately 43 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Firm.

The Firm Themes

This Study Guide consists of approximately 43 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Firm.
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Family

Family is a pivotal theme in The Firm. When recruiting new lawyers, Bendini, Lambert and Locke takes great care in investigating the candidate's familial status. The firm seeks applicants who come from less than happy circumstances. It believes that this history creates a hunger for success and fraternity later in life—ideals that the firm upholds. It also seeks young men who are married. The firm leverages its benefits packages and entices couples looking forward to a particular way of life. The firm selects according to intelligence as well, but intelligence alone would not yield an interview. Once a lawyer has been hired, he is strongly encouraged to buy a home and have children. The firm offers such a bargain on its low interest mortgages that the employees would be crazy to not take advantage of the offer. When Mitch McDeere joins Bendini, Lambert and Locke, they...

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