<p>My best friend is a partner and litigator at a law firm here in town. If he offers me a summer position as a legal assistant, should I accept? What if he implies to hold for me a future associate position for when I graduate law school?</p>
<p>My concern lies within the mantra: don't date a co-worker. Well, what about working under your best friend?</p>
<p>I took a job working for a friend one time. It ended badly.</p>
<p>LaBarrister: Who are you, really? I know you’ve posted on here a lot lately, and at times have introduced stimulating topics, but from what you’ve written, I’ve ascertained that you are an undergraduate engineering major who’s thinking about being a lawyer or writer. Now you come up with a question about working for your “best friend” who is a partner in a law firm. Are you a nineteen year old who’s having an affair with a 35 year old lawyer? Are you an older student who’s gone back to college to get a degree and that’s why you have as a best friend a firmly established professional person? What gives here?</p>
<p>I too wonder about this.</p>
<p>It’s become increasingly clear with LaB’s ever changing backstory that s/he posts when bored, or looking to stir things up, or just when simply “trolling”(as it were). No real advice or insight is sought nor is any usable advice given; my guess next post will have LaB as the boss, with a similar question about hiring a friend…</p>
<p>Hmm…If my backstory has ever changed, it was probably a miscommunication of sorts? I am a twenty-yr-old chemical engineering major, recently became interested in doubling with English (which I am now officially pursuing—I added a few English courses to my schedule this fall), aspiring to be a lawyer and a writer. </p>
<p>This spring semester I developed an interesting relationship with a lawyer in town who used to run Marathons, and we started training for a Marathon together and are currently doing so. We are running sometime in October, maybe Des Moines. The attorney is a partner at his firm, along with his brother—the firm began with their dad. During idle conversation with his legal assistant one night over a couple fruity rum drinks, the assistant managed to tell me that the attorney would actually like to have me at the firm this summer were there any such positions open (I have been tenaciously looking for legal assistant positions all summer without avail—a shot in the dark, really, but a shot nonetheless). Simply, folks, my mind took me to the consideration of working under someone who is a good friend. I became concerned with the professional/personal overlap. </p>
<p>Any other questions? I am not sure if you guys are interrogating me or actually concerned so as to better help me during these discussions.</p>
<p>crankyoldman, I do respect your replies. All of my posts, actually, are sincere and honest. I am merely curious and truly appreciative of the responses of those on this website to my curiosities. Is there some memo of conduct that I didn’t get when signing up for this website? Is there some sort of topic you would rather me talk about? Honestly, I don’t understand the need for derogatory comments. Do you think I am immature? Na</p>