What percentage of those lawyers are divorced within 5 years and never get to see their kids? There is more to life than the after tax money you get to keep.
When I was a MM I was home by 6pm for dinner every night. Happy to net less.
The suspect those attorneys were no different than your typical corporate attorney in the Dallas or San Fran area: which is probably a pretty sucky life (if it’s anything like my friends’ in NYC)