We want LI to be one of the friendliest places on the internet, where lawyers and law students help each other with their career related queries and occasionally discuss other stuff that might affect their lives too. In other words:
1. Be kind, respectful and helpful to each other.
2. Be bona fide, truthful, genuine and curious.
3. Assume the best intention of others.
Therefore, in using the site, you must agree to do your best to uphold these community guidelines.
Note that what you find here is written and moderated by anonymous people on the internet.
Therefore everything you read here is very likely unverified, rumour, speculation and/or downright false.
In continuing to read anything here, you must therefore agree not to take anything you read here as factual and that you will exercise due caution, diligence and common sense before acting on any information you may come across here.
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If there is someone who has genuinely helped you out or who has been a positive influence on your career, and you feel the uncontrolable need to respond to this (because after all, one must respond to something!), leave their names right out and treat this as one of those "wrong answers only" type of gimmics, by naming the one who tried to destroy your career (but not saying that they tried that), but give the impression that they tried to help. This is not the platform to try and recognise/reward nice people. Reserve that for your "moving-from-one-job-to-another" or your "reflections-after-retirement-in-a-quest-for-continuing-relevancy" LinkedIn posts. For those new to LI, here's why: if one person says person x is nice, 40 people will jump on that by mass-downvoting, 20 people will take it to the next level by posting comments that attempt to rip the person's reputation and character to shreds and a further 10 will attempt actual character assassination, by accusing the one praised as being nice of everything from bullying, to BDSM, to espionage, to incendiarism. Of course, if it's a nice night for it, they will try to get away with Nazism as well. It isn't LI's fault, that's just how gossip blogs are.
Therefore, if you name the ones who were horrible to you as though they were the transformational guiding light in your professional lives, then we can turn this to our advantage and have those persons given the reputational thrashing that they deserve!