Junior associates assigning work "up" to me Forum

[Anonymous User]

I would pick up the phone and call. Awkward stuff like this is better kept out of email. If think you're a bitch on the phone, they would have had the same sexist thoughts reading your email anyway. Plus on the phone you can be more straight up without sounding passive aggressive in writing.

I'm also a sixth year who has been getting "please send this turn in the am"-type emails from a second year, and it has been pissing me off lol. Your situation sounds worse; I would definitely do something about it. (But that something would probably be over the phone).

[Sad248]

I feel like everybody is overthinking this. If you are a junior, you don't assign work upwards. Done. If they do so, you just say no, say you don't have the bandwidth, but that you are happy to review their work. You don't need an explanation or partner permission or whatever. Just say no, and that's it. All the messages here seem like we are apologizing to a senior partner who asked us something.