I'm quite glad that I've survived first year of my practice (well technically 6 months) and appreciate that there's a lot more to learn in the coming year! I love brand new years, they often give you some hope of changing things for the better, of letting you start some stuff on a clean slate and basically just a really good time to forget all those bad stuff that had happened in the past year and to move on somehow thinking things will become better (although sometimes they don't).
One will realise how insignificant and how small one can actually be in the real world where we have to start making a living for ourselves and take on responsibilities for ourselves. When you are in law school, you often think of yourself as being a free spirit, attacking arguments in every logical way you possibly can and you often think you can do more than just dreaming. Well, the downside of practice is, you soon realise:
1) you are not a free spirit, you have to somehow always cover your own ass, subject / qualify your advice / what you have to say to your clients so as to minimise liability of not just the firm but also yourself;
2) you are not free to write in whichever way you prefer or think is best;
3) you don't always think you can do more than what's already on your plate; and
4) the sky is not the bloody limit, the ground probably is. You must be prepared to fall flat on the ground if you push beyond the bloody ground.
So law school and work's totally different. But well it's fine, hehe ok just a really short post which hopefully would lead to many more other posts! I don't know who else reads this blog but it's not like I write for an audience so see you guys real soon!
