Early in my law school career, I received some career advice from an older and supposedly wiser person in the profession. This man wasn’t just a lawyer, he was a judge. And the advice he gave me was, in retrospect, terrible.

He had worked in several different legal roles in his career, in private practice and in public service on a local level. He had been a judge for about a decade when I encountered him. So what was his advice for my career?

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