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Molly cuddling leads to this.
The more you li*k your boss's , everything will be sorted
You are genius, its the corporate culture that this toxicity is legitimised as SYNERGY while you be rated.
Work Product in Law firm is everybody knows. Stupids, Idiots who dont know anything, but know how to be around your boss's, and hence successful
If you come of the law firm corporate culture, you will never like to rejoin it again. Believe me.
These Partners hardly go to the courts.
Become senior advocate, and show your Partners their competency and challenge their idiocracy that made you suffer.
Please guide
Boss, please read the room. And the OP seems to suggest he/ she were doing quite well in a previous practice area, and didn’t do well in the next. Also, it is widely know how WELL law firms in generally are managed. In fact it’s laughable how we work long hours, but we don’t have concept of managers to ensure the work load is equally distributed.
To OP -
It’s okay. Law firm teams can often be very badly managed and you may have been a victim of the same. Not everyone has to excel at law firms. There lot of opportunities outside law firms too. At the end of day, what we are looking for is a respectable job & salary, and a sense of belonging and accomplishment at work. This too shall pass.
Lot of banks and companies hire in-house. Just search on LinkedIn for folks who have transitioned to in house. You will get to know which places are hiring.
All the best.
Confidence is good. Over confidence kills. You may be the big fish at law school but in a firm- you are bottom of the ladder and need to traverse up.
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