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Wow what firm is this with such low attrition
Goodwin, wanna come over? Lol jk
Why do you want to be friends with them? Honest question.
What A7 said, and it’s also an easier workplace if you’re friends with your coworkers, and you can reach out for inside scoop on things, etc
Maybe just pick one you think you’d be most likely to connect with (or are already working with), see if they want to grab coffee or lunch and start from there.
Yeah I think these are great ideas for starting out
Community Builder
Maybe invite them all to a happy hour? I always find that the best way to break into something is to invite people to an event. You get to know them and they know you and the next time they do something, I think it’s more likely they’ll invite you.
Subject Expert
What if you just had seltzer at that happy hour
See if you have any mutual connections that can introduce you. I had a good friend who I summered with from my old firm introduce me to her firm from law school who was at my new firm.
Enthusiast
Invite them to brunch (ideally on you but obvi doesn’t have to be). We millennials love a good brunch.
That’s a good idea
Probably harder overall to assimilate in the remote/hybrid world, but it can be helpful to be staffed on a larger matter as a way to get to meet people. I lateraled as a third year pre-COVID and most of my friends at the firm are people I worked with on that big team (or met through them). I prefer (and have mostly otherwise done) smaller matters but that one case definitely paid off in terms of QOL.
That said, at least at the firms I’ve worked at, there’s no way to replicate meeting everyone the way you do while summering. So don’t put too much pressure on yourself. There’s still plenty of people in my own class year I’ve yet to cross paths with (I’m at a pretty big firm).
That’s true and it’s been the case so far for me too, but you don’t often get staffed with ppl your own class year