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If your firm has email detainment requirements, start filing/saving your emails day 1
And use a timer for billing, either there one in your software or a desktop timer
Bill as you go! You won’t remember that 0.2 email you sent in the morning if you wait until the end of the day to enter your time. Keep a tight diary system. Don’t let the amount of time someone has been practicing inflate your imposter syndrome - most of us are still making it up as we go. Good luck!
Highly recommend the email folder system (have a diff folder for each matter). It makes your life so much easier when finding docs, making all the firmwide emails go automatically to a “firmwide” folder, or remembering where you are at on each matter If you haven’t seen anything there for a bit. If you are unsure about anything, over communicate it
Contemporaneous billing is huge. Also, find a task management system that works for you.
For bankruptcy lit., get familiar with all of the preference and fraudulent transfer statutes. If you haven’t already, definitely brush up a little bit on the bankruptcy jurisdiction decisions. Fair warning, they are an absolute mess.