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BigLaw: How to Work With Very Difficult Clients

By Liz Kurtz

Originally published on June 15, 2009 in our free BigLaw newsletter. Back in the days when lawyers still had jobs, you could listen in on virtually any group of summer associates, law students, or recently minted attorneys, and hear them chattering excitedly about the great aspects of the position they had (or hoped to have) landed at a law firm. "Free dinner if you're there after 7!" "Car service if you stay past 8!" "Tons of client contact!" Ask a second or third year associate about these "perks," and they'll tell you that they are, as a general matter, euphemisms for much less glamorous circumstances, like working really, really late. Or at least that's what they would tell you if you could find them: they are probably too busy hiding from clients...continue to full post

Full post as published by TechnoLawyer Blog on June 22, 2009 (boomark / email).