Employer: Squire Patton Boggs
Title and Practice Area: Senior Associate, Litigation

What was the most valuable lesson you learned in your first year practicing law? Assume the first draft is the final draft. There is a tendency to convince ourselves that “someone smarter than me will figure out this difficult issue” or “I will fix that later,” but more often than not, nobody knows the issues better than you do and there isn’t time later.