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The Challenging Value Proposition Of Junior Associates

This is why in-house lawyers balk at paying for first- and second-year associates.

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Associates who are two to three years out of law school are lovely people, and their mothers are very proud of them, but they’re not terribly helpful to me.

— An in-house lawyer during a panel on ediscovery at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC), explaining that good paralegals are often more useful (and cheaper) than junior associates when it comes to document review and document production in litigation.

David Lat is the founder and managing editor of Above the Law and the author of Supreme Ambitions: A Novel. You can connect with David on Twitter (@DavidLat), LinkedIn, and Facebook, and you can reach him by email at dlat@abovethelaw.com.

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