A new crop of summer associates has descended on law firms and first-years will be coming in a few months. I have reminisced with colleagues, on occasion, about how different things may have been had someone shared career advice with us when we started. For all those who don’t have a parent, sibling, or family friend who’s a lawyer or don’t have access to the Oracle of Delphi, incarnate, I offer five things that my informal group wishes others would have whispered in our ears when we embarked on our legal careers.
Specialize
For the new lawyer, it would seem that picking a broad and popular practice area (to the extent that one has such an option) would make the most sense. After all, broader has to be better, right?
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