My first job was as a field attorney for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in Houston. I had hoped to clerk for a judge, but in this hope I was disappointed. But the lessons I learned at the NLRB proved more useful in the long term, at least for me, than any I could have learned elsewhere. Here are my mentors and the lessons they taught me.
Lesson No. 1: All lawyers are created equal. I was sending a letter to an opposing lawyer. My supervisor spied it on my desk, picked it up and arched his eyebrows. “Why are you calling him ‘mister’? Don’t the two of you have the same law license?”
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