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Law Practice

Mar. 18, 2003

Bad Reputation

In Closing Column - By Ida Abbott - Performance reviews have an undeserved bad reputation. Most law firms review associates once or twice a year. Too often, associates experience these reviews as superficial, awkward, and sometimes even painful conversations about events that happened long before the review takes place. In tough times, associates also perceive reviews as a tool that firms use to justify terminations when work is scarce.

        In Closing

        
By Ida Abbott

        Performance reviews have an undeserved bad reputation. Most law firms review associates once or twice a year. Too often, associates experience these reviews as superficial, awkward, and sometimes even pain...

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