What skills should you have by the start of your fifth year?

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Knowing what skills you’re supposed to have by the start of your fifth year

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Knowing you don’t know what skills you’re supposed to have by the end of the 4th year but in a second you’ll know what skills you’re supposed to have by the start of your fifth year

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You should be pretty close to taking calls from your office with the door open

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lol sorry for trolling. Real talk, in m&a you should be able to pretty run a deal including knowing what’s generally market on the big deal docs

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I had a partner yell at me because there was "stuff missing" from an Excel table I created. He didn't understand that there could be columns off the page and you had to scroll to the right to see additional stuff.

Instead of apologizing or going "oh ok," he just doubled down and then berated me for having columns that far out...we're talking about a spreadsheet that really couldn't be simplified further and it wasn't like there were a million columns. We're talking about not a very complicated thing here.

This isn't particularly relevant to this post, but your comment reminded me of this. These are the psychopath morons that are in big law and wholly make this job unbearable sometimes.

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If you specify your practice area it’d help.

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