Past the Bar
Vesselin Mitev, Esq. is the chief associate for litigation firm John Ray & Associates, with offices in Manhattan and Long Island.
This Week's Topic
Me and the 40-Year-Old Virgin
Sitting in an arraignment part recently while waiting for my case to be called, I was approached by a lawyer who, although substantially older than me, was new to the practice and had some general questions about the process. His client was facing a serious assault charge and it was the lawyer's first arraignment.
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Previous Topics
Too Much of a Muchness
Law school writing courses, and by proxy, the attorneys that graduate from them and go on to practice in the real world seem to universally overlook a simple concept when it comes to writing: more is not necessarily better.
Showing Up
"Eighty percent of success is showing up," Woody Allen once said. But when you show up, what then? Have you come far? Do you have a lot of baggage? Where's your passport? And what's that smell? Fear, maybe? Young lawyers are in for a shock: School wasn't the hard part. Vess Mitev, a young lawyer, offers others in the same situation advice on making the hard part a little easier in a new recurring feature for the NYLJ Career Center.
