Your personal reputation for trust and service is something you have to build your entire career, and truly begins when you start law school. If you don’t give the necessary attention to details, or fail to keep confidential information to yourself, or exhibit unprofessional behaviour in any way, the judgements will become part of your reputation and will be challenging to overcome. You want your reputation to grow, not decline, and you will become known based on a mixture of your skill and attention to detail, your personality and customer service, your honesty and integrity, and your ethical standards, judgement and diligence. If you are working in a firm with other attorneys, every encounter is going to affect your reputation to some degree, so please do bear this in mind and build the kind of name for yourself that is going to be respected. Read More
