Today's guest bloggers are Grover Cleveland and Katherine Larkin-Wong. A Seattle-based lawyer, Cleveland is the author of Swimming Lessons for Baby Sharks and a regular Careerist guest contributor (click here, here, and here). Larkin is a litigation associate at Latham & Watkins's San Francisco office and president of Ms. JD , a nonprofit organization that promotes gender equality.
Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook, has dominated recent conversations with her book Lean In—Women, Work, and the Will to Lead. We were struck by how many of Sandberg’s “lessons” apply to lawyers generally (both men and women) and to summer associates specifically. Here are 10 essential tips from Lean In:
1. Treat your summer job as a forever job—even if you’re not certain you want to stay for the long haul. Sandberg writes that women shouldn’t opt out of their careers before they have to. A similar idea applies to summer associates. We cringe when summers tell us that they’re just at a firm to pay off student loans and they don't plan on staying. That could be true, but the best thing that you can do for yourself is to give it your all.
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