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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, my own view is that it may be too soon to tell.  Yes, you may have dug yourself a hole.  On the other hand, you may be putting too much stock in this one associate's "overheard" conversation.  Also, I have always thought persistence matters.  It is very hard to navigate the Big Law world; we all make mistakes.  You may still have plenty of time to re-steer your ship and recover, especially if there are other big partners to develop a relationship with.

[b]That being said, I'm very curious about all these comments that are basically saying that once you mess up once at Big Law/make a bad impression, your path is ruined forever.  I'm finding that hard to believe, but I'm only a senior associate.  I have found that persistence matters; that you just keep plugging away.  [/b] But perhaps I am unaware.

I'd love to hear if there are any Big Law partners/of counsel who have had an experience where they self-corrected and recovered from trip ups/bad impressions etc. and gone on to still be successful over the long run .  Do you exist?         [/quote]

What you're saying was true at my NYC biglaw firm (v25) back in 2005 or 2006 -- i.e. one mistake esp for a newbie wasn't detrimental, you could keep plugging away and improve. But nowadays it is very much one strike and you're out (not immediately - you get the "concerning" review where they tell you to improve and then they freeze you out and don't give you enough work to improve so in the follow up review 6 months or 1 yr later you're told -- sorry this isn't working for us, pls leave in 3 months or 6 month or whatever they decide). [/quote]

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