Summer Time and Workload

Summer Time and Workload

Learn techniques to ensure that, by effectively managing your time and workload, you can meet deadlines and still deliver your very best work.

Transcript

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...

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