Newly qualified here. How do junior lawyers get work? Would you ask for it to specific people you want to work with or allow it to funnel objectively through resource management?

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Ask the partners. As a junior, partners are your clients. So ask partners in your practice group. Make yourself available

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Some associates don’t know what they want for their career, which is fine. And in such case, you don’t maybe need to be as intentional with whom you’re asking for work.

But if you know what you want out of your career (I.e., a specific kind of work), you should be intentional about grooming relationships with partners and senior associates who can delegate that work to you. Unfortunately, likability plays a big role in your success, so you do need to invest in those relationships. Even if you have a central staffing system, because you’ll find that lots of partners will refuse to use it.

And aside from career shaping goals, try to ask around without asking around about who is good to work for and who is a nightmare. Because there will be a bit of both. Appropriate phrasing to more senior associates to gauge this: “Which partners might be good mentors to me?”

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