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How often do you guys misunderstand assignments?
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Date: May 2nd, 2012 11:01 AM Author: Haunting nursing home Misunderstood what partner was asking and turned in a memo that's totally not on point.
normal for this to happen to a first year litigator or am i a dumb fuck? |
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Date: May 2nd, 2012 11:03 AM Author: ebony harsh address black woman Yeah. boss asked me to draft a motion in limine. I spent 30 hours writing it but he really wanted a discovery demand. The deadline passed and we were fucked. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1938408&forum_id=2#20596227) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2012 11:06 AM Author: Haunting nursing home sounds like that was your boss' fault. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1938408&forum_id=2#20596241) |
Date: May 2nd, 2012 11:02 AM Author: unhinged floppy lodge Could happen once without being a big deal, but don't let it happen again. Do you understand where you went wrong? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1938408&forum_id=2#20596223) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2012 11:06 AM Author: Haunting nursing home yes. realized it later, but too late.
it was a research assignment to supplement a brief that i drafted. simply misunderstood what he was looking for. |
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Date: May 2nd, 2012 11:03 AM Author: diverse heaven keepsake machete or possibly the partner is a horrible communicator. Just took a class with a partner of a big firm in-state and I couldn't imagine how he communicates tasks to associates. Must be awful. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1938408&forum_id=2#20596229) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2012 11:08 AM Author: Haunting nursing home i think this one was on me. he's usually fairly clear. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1938408&forum_id=2#20596246) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2012 11:03 AM Author: Carmine Indirect Expression bring a notepad to every assignment meeting, ask questions to the point of being aspie, follow up as needed
i guarantee this does not annoy the partner more than getting a worthless memo days later. |
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Date: May 2nd, 2012 11:08 AM Author: Haunting nursing home yeah, agreed.
this was just a "btw...can you look into this" type of thing where he wanted a short email memo in a few hours. |
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Date: May 2nd, 2012 11:24 AM Author: vibrant autistic abode do you usually follow up with questions and get your partner to review the assignment before it's done? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1938408&forum_id=2#20596309) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2012 11:25 AM Author: Haunting nursing home nah, i work in a small firm. i get the assignment, do it, and turn it in. there's nobody to review them before it's turned in to the partner. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1938408&forum_id=2#20596315) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2012 11:27 AM Author: vibrant autistic abode and you can't follow up with your partner at all, just to make sure you're on the right track or anything? Since I'm going to be in a new area of law I may need to do this. I'm scared it may annoy them though. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1938408&forum_id=2#20596322) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2012 11:29 AM Author: Haunting nursing home the partner is usually busy as fuck and i'm afraid of bothering him with questions that can either annoy him or make him think that i'm a dumb.
so i usually try to figure things out myself. |
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Date: May 2nd, 2012 11:31 AM Author: vibrant autistic abode what if u can't, are there any associates there you could ask? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1938408&forum_id=2#20596345) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2012 11:33 AM Author: Haunting nursing home yeah, i do that sometimes. but a lot of the time they're not familiar with the case and don't have the time to listen to me explain all the background stuff. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1938408&forum_id=2#20596352) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2012 11:28 AM Author: vibrant autistic abode i'm scared asking too many questions may make me look like i'm not understanding/slow/annoying. But I guess you're right. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1938408&forum_id=2#20596327) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2012 11:23 AM Author: vibrant autistic abode this has happened to me before a few times but i'm prob just dumb. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1938408&forum_id=2#20596303) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2012 11:23 AM Author: Haunting nursing home what kind of firm and what year? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1938408&forum_id=2#20596307) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2012 11:25 AM Author: vibrant autistic abode as a 3L working for a clinic. It was a pass/fail course, i did everything supremely half-ass. My supervisor wrote me an email basically bitching me out though, saying my 'memo's' were not up to par. Because I procrastinated I did not even do a memo, just a one-paragraph answer to most of her questions.
How long do you typically have for memos? |
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Date: May 2nd, 2012 11:26 AM Author: Haunting nursing home depends.
i've done a couple motions to dismiss where i was given 1-2 weeks. internal memos can vary from a few hours to a couple days. |
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Date: May 2nd, 2012 11:25 AM Author: orchid nibblets background story This doesn't matter unless they say, write a MSJ and you have a court deadline.
All the shit that you do that you misunderstood, would need to be done anyways. |
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Date: May 2nd, 2012 11:27 AM Author: Haunting nursing home nah. what i did was pretty useless.
partner asked me to research X and write short memo. i researched Y instead. |
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Date: May 2nd, 2012 11:28 AM Author: vibrant autistic abode maybe just communication error? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1938408&forum_id=2#20596330) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2012 11:30 AM Author: Haunting nursing home nah, misunderstanding on my part. i misinterpreted the part of a brief that he wanted me to research on. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1938408&forum_id=2#20596336) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2012 11:31 AM Author: vibrant autistic abode oh well, don't shit on it too much. Mistakes happen, move on, do a better job next time. I've certainly done that before (misunderstood instructions.) This thread is almost making me re-evaluate whether I should do this job now lol. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1938408&forum_id=2#20596343) |