I will be having my first evaluation talk this week. Recently completed my first year, Biglaw v50. I had a few queries:
- I assume it will just be "This is what went well; this is what you could do better"? Is there anything else that normally comes up from the partners during these things?
- Am I to come up with points myself? Like "This is what I would like to work on in the coming year, and this is what I want to improve on"?
- A more concrete point: I want to switch offices. Due to family and fiance reasons, I want to move. I already brought this up before I started after accepting the offer, and it was looked into then, but it didn't work out, and no further update was given since. I have been unable to touch upon it further due to COVID (no casual walk ins into the partner's office anymore, after all). Would the eval talk be a good time to bring it up again? I'm assuming the partner completely forgot about it, but don't want to bring it up at the wrong time. Another reason is also that the office I am eyeing has a practice group I want to switch to (but I assume it is definitely a bridge too far to bring that up?).
Thanks!
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