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Blog postIn my last post, I talked about four common assignments for first-year Biglaw associates. Here, in Part 2, I’m continuing on with that theme with four more typical tasks for junior associates.
Again, I’ve limited my overview to just those things that corporate/transactional associates will encounter, since litigation is a whole other world that I wasn’t a part of.
Hope this helps law students and brand new associates become a little more aware of what the heck you actually do -
Blog postThe day is finally here. IT has set you up with a brand-new laptop, you’ve decked out your home office, you’ve done a tech check, and you’re ready to get to work. Congrats on starting your job as a first-year Biglaw associate!
Once new associate orientation and training is over, it’s go time. So you sit, and you wait for that very first “Assignment” email from the assignment coordinator to come across.
You probably have some sense of what kind of work your firm does from your -
Blog post“Biglaw is a marathon, not a sprint.” I’m sure you’ve heard this common refrain before. Have you heard it related to Biglaw (because many people say it when giving advice to law students and junior associates)? I might have even said it myself in the past (cringe).
The message comes from a good place. It’s telling junior lawyers that they shouldn’t work so hard that they burnout before the race is over.
But it’s not the right message, because Biglaw is a sprint sometimes. In f -
Blog postStarting a new Biglaw job?
Even if you were a summer associate at your firm, working as a first-year associate is a whole new game. You’re actually someone’s lawyer now!
Regardless of what firms tell you when you’re a summer associate (i.e., that they give summers “real substantive work” – most don’t), real Biglaw work doesn’t start until your first day as an associate.
Now is that time for many of you! And you might be a little nervous. Some things that might be going -
Blog postWhat does Biglaw expect from its first-year associates? This is the million-dollar question and what every incoming associate wants to know.
Despite all of the information available online, Biglaw remains somewhat of a mystery for many law students. I think part of this is because a lot of the information that is available is put out by law firms themselves, so it’s hard to get an understanding of what work and life are truly like (for obvious reasons they withhold some information an -
Blog postItalians give the best goodbyes. During a lunch in Rome over the summer, we sat across from a family of Italians sharing a meal and saying goodbye to each other. The oldest son was clearly leaving home to go somewhere – moving to another city or college perhaps – and I couldn’t take my eyes off the table. Every single person at the table – dad, mom, brother and others – gave him lots of kisses and teary-eyed hugs during their drawn-out goodbyes.
Soon after witnessing this goodbye, I f -
Blog postIt’s been one year since my husband and I packed up our Upper West Side apartment and left New York City. I used to think that leaving Biglaw was the last chapter of this book, but now I realize that leaving NYC was the true ending. I moved to the city in 2009 after graduating from law school and stayed for what felt like way longer than ten years and way shorter than ten years all at once.
Like most people and like every year, mine was full of ups and downs, but I’ll focus on the ups -
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Setting boundaries in Biglaw is such a controversial topic. I have a LOT of thoughts about it bec -
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A while back, I wrote about my relationship with the “Sunday Scaries” when I was in Biglaw. 7 Ins -
Blog post[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.22″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.8.0″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″]It’s January 2021 as I write this, and many Biglaw junior associates a
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