Back in Delivering Great Work, we talked about deadlines and their impact on the work you’ll do throughout the summer. Even a single missed deadline can produce a lost client, financial or reputational damage, or even a malpractice lawsuit. Because of this, we advised you to treat every deadline as if it were set in stone. 

That’s relatively easy to do if you’re working for a single attorney on a single assignment at a time. However, it’s much more likely that you’ll be juggling multiple...