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Also just started my second year—my goal is to understand the tasks I’m doing (including the reasoning behind them) enough to explain it to a first year
That’s a good one, thanks!
I like creating a few hard substantive goals as well as soft qualitative goals. For a junior, good goals can be taking the lead on drafting a summary judgment motion, prepare deposition outlines and observe depositions, things of that nature. For the non-quantitative stuff, think about ways you can contribute to the business. Start developing subject matter expertise, write alerts for clients, etc.
I would stay away from talking about billable too.
Thanks a lot!
Are you litigation or transactional?
I’m switching from m&a to litigation in two months (this is for educational purposes and mandatory in my first three years at my office)
Another competence I thought of is improving my legal English. English is not my mother tongue, but 50% of my work is in English. I notice that when I am relaxed, this goes fine. But when I have a client meeting that I’m a bit nervous about, speaking English sometimes goes less smoothly. I'm considering saying that I'd like to be more 'unconsciously competent' when speaking English and suggesting to sign up for legal English classes to improve this. Any thoughts?
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Stop caring and you will do better. When I was a junior, a partner would ask me a question on a call and I would stutter and not be confident in my answer (although I knew it was right) because…the partner was on and that made me nervous. Now, said partner is a client and when I’m on client calls, I just go with my gut on things. Once you are relaxed, you will improve 100%. And the only way you improve is to stop caring. Think about how good your English is when you are talking to those you don’t care about v. you talking to those who YOU THINK care about what your saying. Relax.