Get anxious when my boss doesn’t listen to my analysis and keeps asking me to do the research I already did (& already told him I found no answer he wishes to get several times) we also seem to have different understandings of the law. I’m so frustrated...I know I’m not as experienced as him, but I’ve been questioning myself a lot recently. Or maybe I just don’t want to be like him...he calls me chicken sometimes and I question myself whether I’m mentally strong or whether I should do liti

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You are not alone. I also had a Sr. Associate I worked for who would berate me, ask me if I even went to law school, and refuse to listen when the law didn’t support the arguments he wanted to make. Ultimately I differed to him on the case we were working on and tried not to smirk too much when the Judge ripped him a new one, after he failed to listen to me tell him exactly what the judge told him. After that I worked hard at getting reassigned to a better supervising attorney. Life is too short to work with assholes.

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I think this is a normal feeling for younger attorneys. Just remember, making ridiculous arguments with a straight face is part of the job! I’m not joking - that is actually what we have to do. Even if the caselaw is overwhelmingly against the position you find yourself in, make the best reach you can make and argue it when you need to. You will file many many motions in a lifetime of litigation practice that you know you are going to lose. It’s okay. It’s all water under the bridge and it’s all just to get you to that settlement table anyway.

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I feel this all the time. Especially if it’s the kind of research where I’ve mostly come up empty or with answers the partner didn’t like. I start to doubt myself and panic that I’ve missed something the second I get questioned, even if I already know the answer to the question.

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So true. They will question, and I feel like they are saying: you better not let me do the research and find one case. This actually happened once. But all the cases he found were not directly on point.... then I gave him cases indirectly related, he questioned why I gave him cases not directly on point 😂 trying to get used to it without doubting myself every day

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