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From time to time, my current boss and I compare the amount and type of flair that we each have in our offices. One of the benefits of going in-house is that you don't have to worry about decorating your office--either clients and internal communications or HR does that for you. From time to time, some innocuous person you've never seen before comes by with a poster or "top 10 list of things we think you need to know about your company" brochure for your bulletin board. Sometimes, it's a company logo pen. In very rare instances, you'll get an award/paperweight recognizing your contributions to some company endeavor.

The only private practice areas I can tell where you get flair are M&A (stock certificates encased in acrylic to be used as paperweights), entertainment (movie or other-related toys), and maybe IP (items used as exhibits). In my last firm job, we shared the building with an IP firm, and the associates would enter and exit the elevators with molecular models. Sure, they looked extremely tired (which was actually a good thing, since they were billing), but at least they were carrying something else besides fully-expanded Redwells stocked to the gills with paper, right?