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New Skadden Partner Offers Secrets to Associate Success
Posted Nov 13, 2008 5:26 PM CST
By Martha Neil
Loving your job, taking pride in your work and having the right mentors are what it takes to make partner, says one new member of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom.
Also, associates should not be afraid to let partners know what they think, even though they may inevitably make some mistakes along the way, Peter Morrison, 34, tells the Wall Street Journal Law Blog.
"Make yourself known and heard," he advises would-be partners there and elsewhere.
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Comments
JD
Nov 13, 2008 8:43 PM CST
I don’t get why this deserves a whole story; none of this is a secret. On the contrary, it’s just common sense.
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B. McLeod
Nov 13, 2008 9:32 PM CST
Right. We have SEEN this strategy successfully employed by Ellen Barshevsky, who tells her MANAGING Partner EVERYTHING.
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Ellen Barshevsky
Nov 14, 2008 5:01 AM CST
You are NOT CORRECT, Mr. B. MACLEOD.
I have a good working relationship with the manageing partner at my firm, but do NOT tell him everything. I probabley ONLY tell almost everything to Alan, but mabye I even have a few secrets from him.
This law firm person Peter Morrison, is REALLY to young to be giving out this advice. After all, he is just a couple of years older then me, and I am NOT a partner.
He must have JUST made partner, mabye he thinks he walks on water, but he will LEARN that he too needs to get TIME under his belt before he is smart.
I love what I do, and I take PRIDE in my work, and the manageing partner is giving ME more chalenging work. Today, I am revising a motion in liimene, which is hard to do.
Alan says I am doing well, but not to worry if I don’t make partner, I am getting VALUBLE experience. I agree completly, and mabye this will all work out for me and Alan when we are MARRIED.
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B. McLeod
Nov 14, 2008 8:16 AM CST
WELL, my APOLOGIES then (and I AMEND my post ACCORDINGLY, nunc pro tunc).
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David
Nov 14, 2008 8:59 AM CST
Ellen: I think prior to you having an eye towards partnership - or perhaps even a continued career in law - you should probably give the concept of correct spelling and sentence structure a whirl…
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Kathleen Hunt
Nov 14, 2008 11:26 AM CST
I presume that this is ALL part of the satire, right (the story AND the comments)? In today’s economy, no smart associate even WANTS to make partner—you not only take on the profits, you take on the LIABILITIES, YOU IDIOTS!@
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