Advise please!
Started a new role in a new practice area, it was known that I had limited experience. Fast forward a year, and I’m still learning, duh! My level of experience is being tossed in my face. Imposter syndrome is strangling me everyday. Insinuations of me lying about my experience and minor errors being blown up into larger issues occur daily. Passive aggressive emails and misconstruing the facts. Also there are mean girls. I have constant anxiety. Visibly only happening only to me

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Honestly, this sounds like “mobbing” — group-based bullying.

I would save up cash, maximize all benefits (like PTO and leave, if you qualify), and exit as soon as I can.

It’s not worth it to try to “prove oneself” in a mean girls environment.

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Are you in biglaw?

I tried putting my head down and doing the work but I have to ask questions, get approval to send things out and prior to communicating with some clients. I’m in Manhattan, a relatively niche area of law

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Yeahhhhh. Are they knowledge/ area of law issues or actual practice issues?

Soooo your anxiety is messing with you and it’s because the people in you group have higher expectations. I don’t think there is much you can do here besides minimize the practice issues and stack cash as a back up measure. I took a class hit once and it wasn’t for the best. I was still held to the standard of my class year (however, at was at least in my practice area)

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