I like litigation, but hate having 100 little tasks that I need to keep track of. My ADHD mind can’t handle it. I prefer having fewer but larger projects. Am I basically an appellate attorney and I don’t realize it?

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I struggle with this big time. I do well when I just have one or two things to work on that take all my time, like briefs or a big memo/analysis. But for discovery or case management stuff, I constantly drop the ball, lose track of things, don’t think well strategically, and just generally do terrible work product. 5th year but clerked for two years.

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Thank you, SC1. This is surely helpful. For me, I have no one to blame really but myself. If I’m not interested in the work, I struggle to care or focus. For most of my life, that’s been fine because I can still get by on smarts or charm or whatever. But with biglaw, there is a lot of grunt work that has to get done regardless of delegation (e.g., much of discovery and case management and client emails, etc.). I will probably just ride this until I get pushed out. I wonder how many other pseudo intellectual types there out there treading water while collecting the biglaw paycheck while basically wishing they could be a career clerk or professor type

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A to-do-list is of little aid. Try scheduling time to complete each task. This lets you see your bandwidth. Let your ADHD work for you. You’ll start to get a feel for all the things that could happen and can try to ensure you have spare bandwidth.

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I dont think that's just litigation...

I hear ya…

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