I write this article having officially completed, or as I might call it, survived, my first year as an associate at a law firm. Needless to say, it has been a tough year, full of change, hard work, and most of all, learning. Though the demands of law school can be challenging, nothing can prepare you for the “real world” as a practicing attorney. For example, meeting the demands of your law school professors is not the same as meeting the demands of paying clients, who, in my case, have been through life-changing hardships, or your boss.
With that said, the following is a list of the things they do not teach you in law school and my takeaways from my first year in practice.
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