Every burgeoning law student considering a career in private practice is warned about the importance of avoiding the major associate blunders: having too much to drink at firm events, arriving late, getting behind on tracking billable hours, unprofessional dress, isolating support staff, and the list goes on. Before even stepping foot into a law firm, aspiring attorneys are warned that a single blunder may ruin the chance of receiving an offer of employment or result in irreparable damage to one’s reputation. So by the time the clock starts ticking on the annual billable hours requirement on the first day as an associate, we are well armed with an arsenal of stories—some legends, others cautionary tales—of the classic associate gaffes we promise ourselves never to make.
What happens next is a whirlwind. We are thrown into the chaos of learning what it means to be an attorney, unexpectedly now coveting the feedback we once dreaded, and left to make our own mistakes, and hopefully learn from them.
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