At what point did you feel like you were a “good lawyer”?
I’m a couple of years out of law school and recently started to feel like I had found my footing. However, I had an MSJ that I was initially pretty proud of completely torn apart today, and it has me feeling pretty discouraged.
Has anyone else been told they weren’t the strongest writer as a junior attorney and completely turned that around? What did you do to improve?

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I’m a 4th year and I had this experience recently. I’ve been working on my writing and while other products have improved, my first MSJ last month was horrifying.

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I wouldn’t worry about it. I’m sure it was fine and you’ll get to that level once you do enough of them.

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To be honest I always feel incredibly critical of my own work...and yes sure are there briefs I read that make me think wow that person is in a whole different level....but then I read plenty that make me realize I'm sitting pretty nice on the bell curve with my writing abilities.

3rd year by the way.

Who did the tearing apart?

Senior associate

I started feeling like a good lawyer when clients came back to me for my opinions on new matters

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