If you’re a fourth year in biglaw, what responsibilities are you given in m&a? I feel like I still haven’t had a ton of opportunities working on purchase agreements (and mostly just take the lead on ancillary work streams) and I’m afraid I’m falling behind others in my class year.

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You should be the lead associate on at least smaller deals if not most or all of your deals and definitely taking the lead on marking up purchase agreements. If not, try to actively seek out such role as a lead associate and offer to take up that task. If you are not being given that opportunity, you should seriously consider moving to another firm where you will get that experience as it’s crucial to your development.

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I agree that your group is not thinking about your development if they aren’t giving you a lead associate role by the time you’re a 4th year. If that’s not targeted at you individually (and I have seen that happen to some associates) then it’s a failure of the group to strategically give you those opportunities to grow, which is just as bad.

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