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A summer associate turned down work from me today. Turned down work!! I had this stupid little project, to go find some SEC filings and look for some stuff, summarize it in a short memo -- called up a random summer associate -- and she said she was busy! With work given to her by a second-year associate! I'm a partner! No one should be turning down work from me! Luckily, the next person I called seemed more than willing. Did an okay job too. Maybe good enough to get a lunch with me. Maybe good enough not to. But turning down work? From a partner? That's a no-no. A big no-no. I'll remember her, and one day... one day she'll pay for this.

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What should she have done? Should she have dropped the other assignment to take yours, even if it meant missing a deadline which may have cost the firm a case, or worse yet, a client?
 
Um, AL is a *partner* and she was doing work for an _associate_. Hell yes she should have dropped the other person's work. I can put it into terms you might understand better: the assistant manager asked the evening closer to clean the grease traps from the fry station, when the district manager called and asked her to count out the drive thru drawer.

A summer associate wants a *job* and they don't get offers from other associates... they get offers from the *hiring partner*.
 
The summer shouldn't have just said no, on the other hand its not really the summer's job to resolve conflicting priorities. Don't you have some sort of more formal assignment process for summers to make sure things like that don't happen?

In any event, the summer should have asked what's the timeframe. If summer was informed it needed to be done ASAP, summer should have said "let me call 2nd year who assigned me the work to make sure I can delay his project to do yours". That way summer tosses the conflict back into the second year's lap (if its not ok with him, he needs to deal with hiring partner), and hopefully hasn't turned down work and pissed of a partner. Besides, maybe summer really did have time to get both done because the 2nd year might have said, no problem, we have some time on this one, go do partner's assignment first.
 
Remember, it's just the beginning of the summer. A new summer associate is not necessarily going to have a finely-honed sense of hierarchy, if only because every lawyer at the firm -- associate or partner -- seems so far above her current station in life. Ticking off the associate can seem just as disastrous, until you've had time to figure out how the world works. Plus, like someone else pointed out, they've probably been drilled in to think of assignments in process terms, whereby work flows from some central clearinghouse of summer assignments. Receiving a call directly from a partner may have been disconcerting.

Also, the recruiting people have probably been filling her head with all sorts of risk-averse nostrums; e.g., "It's better to turn down a new assignment in order to do an excellent job on the assignment you have than to do a middling job on both."
 
you are right...the summer associate should not have turned down work from you....but you have become what you despise - a small, mean and petty lawyer...sigh
 
Uh, it's pretty obvious that she should've done the job. Immediately. With a smile. Then gotten to that associates' work. Getting work from a partner is an opportunity.

You want to be a lawyer? Give up sleep.

I'm not a lawyer, by the way ... I mean, why would I do that to myself? But you play the rules of the game you play, or you play a different game.
 
My firm has a system wherein a coordinator in the recruiting department gets the assignments and farms them out equitably among the summers, giving them all a chance to work with a variety of partners and associates. The recruiting department makes the decisions as to priority (after all, they know better than the summers when to jump and how high). Trust me, summers want to do a great job whether they are asked to scrub toilets or research an SEC filing. Many of us put in all nighters 2 and three days in a row to make sure we’ve crossed all our t’s and dotted the i’s. (I just happen to have done that over the last 4 days.) I give the summer credit for telling you the truth so that you could move on to someone who had the time and could do the job. If all of the work she does is great, but one partner is mad because she turned down his work because she was working on something for an associate (which, indirectly, is also for a partner who will be pleased with her work) -- will that really have an effect on whether she'll get the job with your firm? If that were so (if your firm was really that petty), I don't think I'd want to give you or your firm what I had to offer (no wonder that associate wants to work for another firm). Life is too short and there are plenty of firms and partners who appreciate honesty and hard work, without the petty bullshit.
 
Well, the summer will get what she deserves for selling her soul to a firm rather than doing real work that is productive to society. Maybe now she'll learn that the real satisfaction of legal work is doing the exact opposite of firm work.
 
Gotta echo the prior comments that your firm needs a better system (okay, how about just a system) to properly distribute assignments to the summers. Let the coordinator deal with rush projects like yours by handing it off to someone who's available. It's ridiculous to think that a summer is expected to say "yes" every time someone hands her something to do until she has 25 assignments, all of which are late or poorly done.
 
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