This is an excellent post from the Legal Writing Professor based on a article in The Complete Lawyer . . .
The Complete Lawyer has an article called Today's Economic Pressures Work Against Natural Mentoring in which the author notes that newly minted law graduates are often surprised to find what self-starters they must be in their first jobs; that they are expected to consistently produce good quality work with little or no supervision.
Associates may receive a variety of work assignments from different partners, each of whom has no idea what other projects the associate is working on or for whom. When the project is done, the associate may or may not receive feedback on his work. In many cases, no single partner is accountable for a particular associate’s success and development. In this environment, an associate can get lost in the shuffle.
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