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The Mistake Therapy Thread

Post by Anonymous User » Tue May 29, 2018 8:36 pm

In my experience as an associate, mistakes (careless or otherwise) are a very normal part of the learning curve, and yet we fear making them for obvious reasons.

So I’ll kick this off: What mistake has made you kick yourself the hardest thus far? Any repercussions? How did you talk yourself down from any panic?

For me, it was probably when I sent a draft agreement to the incorrect party who happened to have the same name as our client’s contact. :shock: The partner fortunately told me to put it out of sight and out of mind, because it wasn’t a huge deal.
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Re: The Mistake Therapy Thread

Post by misterjames » Wed May 30, 2018 9:21 am

Even partners and other senior attorneys make mistakes - I'm in-house and have seen things from small typos to bad legal advice that can be expensive to fix.

Without a doubt my biggest mistake was misspelling a very important person's name wrong on a very important, very public document. In my defense, I was home puking when I drafted it and it was vetted by two others who also missed the typo. Oh well.
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