Five things I'd tell my first-year self

Not advice — more like notes I found in my desk drawer, a decade later.

The first thing they don't tell you about being a first-year lawyer is that everyone else feels exactly the same way.

The thing about feedback

Feedback in law firms arrives like weather. Sometimes it's useful. Mostly it's just wet.

The lawyers who survive the first year aren't the ones who got everything right. They're the ones who kept showing up after they got it wrong.

Write to the person who just wants to make it to Friday.