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[quote=Anonymous]Remember who your internal clients are.  As a junior associate, your job is to make the midlevel associate who is delegating work to you look good.  Do not go around that person to the more senior associate or partner because you know (or think) that the assignment is ultimately for him/her.  I cannot tell you how many times I've had an overeager junior send an assignment to the senior associate without running it by me first.  It's my job as a midlevel to proof your work, make sure its correct, etc. before it gets sent to the senior associate.  If you send it directly to the senior associate -- even if it's 100% right, which it NEVER is -- it makes you look like an overbearing asshat, and the senior associate and I will just talk about how you cannot follow basic directions and overstep your boundaries; it won't be pretty.

On a related note, when someone asks for a "draft," do not send an unpolished, proofread piece of garbage.  It should be your absolute, final document that could be sent directly to the client.  If you're working on a slide deck, MAKE SURE IT LOOKS GOOD!!!  Sloppy, lazy formatting will absolutely downgrade a substantively perfect piece of work, and all the more senior associate will be thinking is that you're too lazy to take pride in your own work produce.  [/quote]

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