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Early Responsibility Thread
Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2015 9:06 pm
by Anonymous User
A lot of firms advertise "early responsibility" but that's pretty vague. Post here to brag about the stuff you did in your first three years. If you're anon you could say your firm so 2Ls will have some concrete examples to compare to the lies people tell them at callbacks.
I'll start: first year biglaw, V49. Accidentally walked into a conference room where a deposition was happening.
Re: Early Responsibility Thread
Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2015 9:07 pm
by fats provolone
whoops, that wasn't meant to be anon
Re: Early Responsibility Thread
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2015 10:33 am
by Nebby
Anonymous User wrote:A lot of firms advertise "early responsibility" but that's pretty vague. Post here to brag about the stuff you did in your first three years. If you're anon you could say your firm so 2Ls will have some concrete examples to compare to the lies people tell them at callbacks.
I'll start: first year biglaw, V49. Accidentally walked into a conference room where a deposition was happening.
Re: Early Responsibility Thread
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2015 11:04 am
by JustHawkin
Tagging. Curious to see what early responsibility means in different firms/practices.
Re: Early Responsibility Thread
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2015 6:23 pm
by Johann
as a 1st year V 99: of counsel of X group let me write an entire 20 page document that went to client. he changed a line or two per page. one month later he asks why my office isnt near X group. I tell him I'm in Y group.
Re: Early Responsibility Thread
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2015 8:05 pm
by BrokenMouse
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Re: Early Responsibility Thread
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2015 8:14 pm
by JusticeJackson
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Re: Early Responsibility Thread
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2015 10:20 pm
by Anonymous User
I work at a firm that does complex litigation, defense side
When I was a first year I got to go a random small claims mediation by myself with $5k authority (the jurisdictional limit)
Client was pretty happy bc I think I settled for under 3500
Now I'm finishing my 2nd year and other than a couple more of those things I haven't been to court ever
Re: Early Responsibility Thread
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2015 10:20 pm
by baal hadad
JusticeJackson wrote:Early responsibility is for the birds. So is early client contact. Clients, opposing counsel, and judges can be savages. Especially to know-nothing junior associates.
More responsibility = more ways to fuck up
Re: Early Responsibility Thread
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2015 11:17 pm
by fats provolone
JusticeJackson wrote:Early responsibility is for the birds. So is early client contact. Clients, opposing counsel, and judges can be savages. Especially to know-nothing junior associates.
I dunno, I did a lot of stuff my first year and I felt like opposing counsel/judges cut me some slack because I obviously had no idea what I was doing