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Eh. I've always looked at it as I get paid more so I'm expected to do more.
I don’t care what anyone else is doing. If I need to work late or come in on a weekend because I have something important coming up then that’s just what I have got on my plate. Maybe my junior colleagues worked late from home and I can’t see what they’re up to or maybe they don’t have any urgent stuff right now.
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Get over it.
Raise your hand if you’ve ever stayed up all night turning last-minute, barely-legible handwritten comments (even though the associates and partners above you don’t have to)?! ✋
I was being facetious, but there’s a limit to what you can delegate when the comments reference other materials and contain substantive questions. Either way, every role on the team has its own responsibilities and downsides.
Partners whining when they get rich off the work of their associates. We see you.
Responds in that we are all working all the time, even when unseen, and that partners reap the vast majority of the financial benefits of associates work.
Whether or not your juniors have to work over the weekend should have little to do with whether you do. I assume you think you are substantively better than them, if you could be replaced with a 1st-3rd year, you’re not doing great. You have different skill levels (and pay levels) and so you handle different tasks.
If you have weekend work that can be delegated to your juniors, go for it. Ask them to work the weekend. It’s part of the job (although you should probably have asked them before Friday if possible). If it can’t be delegated, do your job.
Its also an efficiency thing for me. If i give a first or second year something that I will then have to make major edits to or redo entirely any time saved was eaten up doing that, and probably happening at a more inopportune moment.
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Hey A7. I’m profoundly sorry to hear that. I was blessed with several great mentors who spent many hours training be to do everything from forming questions to handling exhibits to how the rules of evidence really work. One of my colleagues and I probably try more consequential commercial jury trials than anyone else in our V25 firm. This is what we do in every case. Which is why our first years who work on our cases get witnesses in jury trials and consistently shine. I know it’s not the same at all firms but collectively everyone who reads this can help change that dynamic. Working with youngsters isn’t an “efficiency thing.” It’s a professional obligation that we all should take heart attack seriously. And for those of you who work for people who teach you, cherish that fact, internalize it, and be that person as you gain experience.
Have you tried to or can you delegate the work?
Well yeah but why aren't the juniors working as well? We'll all be working
Alfuckingways
Not every weekend but if work to be done you beta believe it
First year checking in that has plans to work the next four weekends in a row. Feeling the love 😂