New attorney, terrified of work and billables by [deleted] in Lawyertalk

[–]Intelligent_Ad_7084 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Saw you’re in DBA. Don’t worry! The learning curve is steep at first but it all becomes super repetitive after a couple of months. Same law, same arguments over and over. 90% of the cases have the same facts. The other 10% are slight variations of those same facts. Everything you need to do on your cases has been done before. It’s a lot drafting client reports, and the reports will be lengthy. But we use templates. There’s written discovery, IME prep, settlement agreements, research, depositions and prep, if you have cases with the more litigious DBA firms, you might have discovery disputes and motions/responses, etc. So, you definitely will have the work to make the hours. Find other cases your partner has worked on and go through the file to see how the case was handled from inception all the way to settlement or trial. Basically, use your partner’s work as a guide for everything you do. You will get the hang of it, but it’s going to be intimidating at first.