Summer’s Golden Rule

Summer’s Golden Rule

Learn the importance of building relationships with everyone you come across at the firm, and how to make “respect” your summer watchword.

Transcript

In your summer-long audition for a post-graduation role as a junior associate, you will, of course, be expected to deliver great work. However, you’ll also need to navigate the social intricacies of life at your firm. To succeed at this, you’ll need to stay well away from the social traps that too many summer associates manage to fall into every year. But take heart, because those traps are easy to avoid when you remember Summer’s Golden Rule. In this lesson, we’ll tell you what that rule is,...

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