Work has been insane. Between a mediation the end of this month, a trial in early May and a whole mess of other cases, I am barely keeping my head above water. I've been trapped in doc review hell for the last several weeks, and every time I turn around there are more documents. I've been doing electronic review every night from my laptop trying to get caught up. And then today I learned that the other side is producing a 145 gig hard drive. Sigh.
Yesterday, I f'd up big time and inadvertently produced privileged docs. Fortunately, opposing counsel was kind enough to point out my mistake (because there was a big green stickie on the docs that said "Privileged") and swears he didn't review them. And my boss didn't even yell at me. He just said "it happens, and we were lucky that opposing counsel was honest." Then when I joked that I was afraid I needed to start packing up, he assured me that I was very well regarded in the firm and that my hard work was very much appreciated and I was not going anywhere anytime soon.
Our new attorney is supposed to be taking some of the heat off of me, but I haven't noticed it much yet. But he did accompany me to an offsite doc review today. I felt like I had a bodyguard. He's a 6'6" bodybuilder and was wearing a black suit. He definitely gets the attention of every passing female.
I will definitely be going in to the office this weekend--something I've avoided since I started with this firm in August. But I have to work on our position paper for mediation and ID our exhibits. I guess the good news is that I am making up for all the hours I was short over the past couple of months while travelling during MIL's illness.
Tomorrow I'm getting sworn into my 2nd federal court bar. Partner said to review the local rules tonight because some of the judges will quiz you. Like I have nothing better to do. Fortunately I'm pretty well acquainted with the local rules because I am anal retentive about following procedure.
So this was rambling and random, but it's all I've got.
3 comments:
Well done you - nice to hear from you. Am cheering you on from a distance.
oh man, it must have been so scary to learn of that mistake! But seriously, I'm sure even partners make mistakes. I've already decided that I will be that kind of lawyer that actually doesnt read inadvertantly sent messages just because of the fact that I'm sure I will do it and I hope opposing counsel will be as nice.
good luck with the swearing in!
Aw, thanks RJ--that's sweet.
Yep, Cee, my heart sank when I realized what I had done. I had obviously reviewed and ID'd the docs--they just weren't pulled from our production set. But I almost feel like it was inevitable since we produced tens of thousands of documents that I single-handedly reviewed.
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