How to handle a senior associate who is trying to make me (a very junior associate) a scapegoat for a mistaken conclusion we both came to after multiple discussions? Very demoralizing.

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In addition to the above, which is accurate, you should also realize that most competent professionals see through this behavior. Even if you came to the conclusion incorrectly, it is on the senior to review and catch these things. You are expected to sometimes come to mistaken conclusions as a junior and it is often times the best way to learn. I would avoid pointing fingers, take ownership of the mistake, and trust that any partner worth working for realizes where the blame lies.

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But beware the partner that doesn’t. I remember one of the first assignments I did for my team featured the senior calling me into her office so that the partner could talk at us both about how wrong we were. I will say, too, that my research was mostly right, but the partner didn’t like how I worded something in the first paragraph and then she assumed the rest of the memo was fucked.

Exactly. Mistakes made by juniors are transfered to seniors who reviewed, ofc not everyone thinks this, but there is no reason to work with those who do not, because they are dumb :)

Both are to blame, but in this case you should be excused because a junior can be expected to make a technical mistake

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This is just bad leadership. You’re a team and the more senior people are responsible for the more junior people. Like some others already said, best you can do is own your part in it and avoid this person in the future.

The partner will see through it. Don’t worry.

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