India, Feb. 27 -- A litigation lawyer working at a prestigious law firm reportedly quit his job on the spot after being denied a non-transfer request so he could spend time with his pregnant wife. Nick Huber, founder of Somewhere, shared the lawyer's story in a now-viral X thread.

"I spoke to a guy last year who spent 5 years at a big prestigious law firm. One of the top firms in the world working litigation," Huber wrote on X (now Twitter).

He revealed that the lawyer had graduated from an Ivy League school and worked thousands of hours to reach a position of power in the law firm. At the age of just 32, he was earning close to $900,000 or Rs.7.8 crore a year.

But the high salary came at a cost. According to Huber, the lawyer regularl...