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How often do you guys misunderstand assignments?
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Date: May 2nd, 2012 11:01 AM Author: Fantasy-prone turquoise forum round eye 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: Haunting medicated really tough guy 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: Fantasy-prone turquoise forum round eye 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: Snowy Motley Library 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: Fantasy-prone turquoise forum round eye 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: soul-stirring swollen sanctuary 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: Fantasy-prone turquoise forum round eye 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: Ruby Excitant Business Firm Rigpig 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: Fantasy-prone turquoise forum round eye 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: Irradiated Dingle Berry Legend 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: Fantasy-prone turquoise forum round eye 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: Irradiated Dingle Berry Legend 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: Fantasy-prone turquoise forum round eye 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: Irradiated Dingle Berry Legend 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: Fantasy-prone turquoise forum round eye 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: Irradiated Dingle Berry Legend 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: Irradiated Dingle Berry Legend 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: Fantasy-prone turquoise forum round eye 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: Irradiated Dingle Berry Legend 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: Fantasy-prone turquoise forum round eye 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: Well-lubricated razzmatazz tanning salon 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: Fantasy-prone turquoise forum round eye 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: Irradiated Dingle Berry Legend 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: Fantasy-prone turquoise forum round eye 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: Irradiated Dingle Berry Legend 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) |