don't be a MOTHER HEN!

I have 2 roles at the venerable Goldstein law firm that I work at. One is to be a paralegal which is basically doing whatever a lawyer can do, EXCEPT question witnesses at trial and depositions and I can't sign **Pleadings, **Motions or **Discovery.
The other is being the teacher to the law clerks. I work with them pretty closely the 1st week they are at the law firm, and after a week, they are on their own except for questions they may have about the work.
One of the clerks that is in her 9th or 10th day, was speaking to a client who suffered a car accident. The client was suspicious and didn't have caller ID, and so they gave her a very hard time. She handled the situation very well.

There were about 4 things that I wanted to tell her to make her phone call better.

But I only told her 1 of the things, the most important one.
There is such a thing as over-teaching and over-talking. I had just wrote her a long memo about another file we have. So, I am picking and choosing. The most important point is this: experience is the best teacher.
So no "too much talking, over teaching" & no mother henning the clerks!!!!


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