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[quote=Anonymous]I've been at my small law firm for four months. I'm a new attorney, and this is my first firm job (I worked in politics before.)

My boss knew I was inexperienced before he hired me, but now, 4 months in, he tells me I'm "bad at legal research and writing," but won't really tell me how. Much of my work gets no edits from him, but other stuff is ripped apart for inexplicable reasons. As far as the research, there was an instance where I hit a wall and my boss claims he "found what we needed in ten minutes,"....but that was bad law, it didn't say what he said it said, and we obviously lost the motion.

I want to get better at this but I'm unsure how. I asked how he would suggest I improve my research skils but he said he doesn't know how to help me. I also don't know which instances I even supposedly messed up on, save for what I mentioned above.

He also forgets what he tells me to do - today he accused me of not filing something that over two months ago he told me not to file (it's in my notes.)

This is kind of a vent but I feel like ultimately I can't be successful here. He basically said the work sucks but hasn't given me any concrete tips to improve besides "do better" and "work harder." I also don't know how to handle things where he forgets what he and did not say (my two coworkers have experienced this as well.)

I should start looking, right?[/quote]

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