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.
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