Moving On from a Bad Firm: Lessons Learned from an Associates Experience

Description

• Harrison reassures that you won't get blackballed for making mistakes at your previous job.
• Attorneys can be negative and hostile due to fear and a lack of work.
• New attorneys typically take three to five years to get the hang of the profession.
• Making mistakes early on is part of the learning curve and not a problem.

Transcript

Transcript:

No, you're not gonna get blackballed. No one's gonna blackball you for making mistakes and at your last job. Attorneys are extremely negative and hostile when people are extremely negative and hostile generally.

The reason for that is because they're afraid and people are not negative and hostile unless others are not nice to them or they're afraid of something. So that means they're negative and hostile probably because they don't have a lot of work and they're not doing as well as they want to. I don't think that there's anything for you to worry about. Attorneys, especially new ones are green.

It's generally three to five plus years to even know what you're doing in the legal profession. So if you are not doing well when you start, that's not a problem. Everyone goes through a learning curve and that's what you're doing.