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Confidence: Seniors humiliating and demoralising A0.
Disdain: 6 months are enough for someone to develop disdain for litigation especially in firms and then they try to get into gencorp or transactions teams in other firms.
Confirmation: Trainee A0 on probation may not get confirmed at the end of 6-8 months or they may not get the desiresd pay or they may get a better offer from other firms.
There is absolutely no documentation as to how to go about things. At best you can expect an old draft to refer to.
During internships, Associates don't trust interns with drafting but suddenly that same intern on joining as an Associate is expected to draft full fledged appeals and Statement of Claims, that too against strict timelines.
The associate while second guessing himself the entire time completes the draft but is then howled at by the Senior Associate or the Partners during review of the draft.
Every fresh grad joining a firm goes through the ordeal in the first 6-8 months. Some people have the grit, tenacity to go through it all while others may get demotivated and demoralised to the point they quit, either in search of a better firm or a different profession altogether.