First Week At The Firm: What To Expect

Fresh-faced new associates at law firms must be ready for a bumpy learning curve. A roundup in FindLaw outlines a few things sure to happen to new lawyers: being criticized, ignored, and underappreciated; having your written work severely edited; and a crash-course in the idiosyncrasies of your new environment. For many of these new challenges, “just let them go,” the article suggests. “You can fix those problems – perhaps when you make partner.”