Getting Down to Work

Getting Down to Work

Learn how budget, scope, and deadlines affect the work you do as a summer associate; research strategies you can use to take them all into account; and what “get me a draft” really means.

Transcript

If you’ve followed the advice in The Art of Taking Instructions, you’re just about ready to get down to work. But before you get started, you still need to consider three vital things: scope of work, budget, and deadline.

We briefly touched on all three items in The Firm, Its Clients, and You, but we’re going to give them a little more attention here. That’s because they make your summer-associate assignments quite different from anything you’ve ever done in law school. As you’ll see in this...

Lessons

1. Introduction
  • Welcome to Succeeding as a Summer Associate
2. Delivering Great Work
  • Welcome to the Real World
  • The Firm, its Clients, and You
  • The Art of Taking Instructions
  • Getting Down to Work
  • Success in Writing
3. Building Great Relationships
  • The Confidence Trick
  • Summer’s Golden Rule
  • The Social Side of Summer
  • The Secret to Standing Out
  • The Challenge of Teams
4. Succeeding at Everything Else
  • The Feedback Loop
  • Perfect Presentations
  • Summer Time and Workload
  • Your Professional Summer
  • Final Impressions