What I Wish I Knew Then is a series of interviews with smart, successful attorneys about the lessons they wish they had learned earlier in their career. Or, put another way, what they want their associates to know now.

Judith Livingston is a senior partner at Kramer, Dillof, Livingston & Moore. It is the only firm she has ever worked at; and she joined the firm as an assistant to the office manager immediately after her graduation from Hofstra Law School. Judy has been called “A Legal Legend” by Law Dragon and named one of “The 50 most influential women lawyers in America” by New York magazine. She has won 35 trials with verdicts in excess of $1 million, and has negotiated hundreds of settlements that have resulted in payments to her clients totaling almost half a billion dollars. She was the first woman, and youngest person, to be admitted to the Inner Circle of Advocates, an invitation-only group limited to 100 of the best plaintiff lawyers in the United States. Her toughest challenge may have been as Steve’s first boss after he became an attorney.