YOU NEED A MENTOR

This business of mentorship from senior lawyers to junior lawyers does raise a question, how do you create great lawyers? Is it like raising kids where you let out the slack a little then crack the whip when the kid gets out of line or is it like military training where you are passed through a terrible ordeal that makes you tougher with a different mind or is it like the ancient Spartan society which had the Igoge which put their own warrior ethos into the young or is it like today's mentorship movement that says you need a mentor, you need a mentor?

Listening to Sheryl Sandberg in Lean In, she lays the case as Succeed and you will find a mentor. Perhaps beginning at the beginning with who is a mentor why a mentor what to do with for a mentor e.t.c. will suffice. Let's not forget the difference between mentorship and sponsorship.

What even is the ideal analogy, is it father and son, mother daughter, kind boss and employee, benefactor and orphan?

Then there is the all time favourite: the throw him into the deep end and see if he comes out school.
This essentially is you as a young lawyer struggle on your own mainly and if any injustice comes your way or you are daft enough to whine then you are told that 'We had no such help and we made it why can't you? (and this is a fair point).

In many ways mentorship seems like do it for me make it easier for me give me the benefits of what you have laboured for years for and it is apparent that lots of lawyers are willing to offer this. You just have to earn ticket by your love for the law. This is not a simple as it sounds.

I guess in some ways it boils down to giving. The giver gives what he wants to or what he can or what he is able to and the taker has to receive it with as much grace and with full moral feel good pay to the giver.
And that's all there is to it.