There are parts of this job that can sometimes be tedious. Settling an adversary proceeding (a litigation case conducted in bankruptcy court) involves drafting up a bunch of fairly standard documents and then tweaking them, by inserting various facts about the case in the correct places, making sure you serve the right people, drafting court orders that mirror what you said in the various pleadings, etc. Sometimes it feels like a trained monkey could do this part. A highly trained, detail-oriented monkey. Who knows the history of the case, and notices little mistakes, and has excellent grammar and spelling skills. An associate, in other words.
I start out doing these kinds of tasks thinking they'll only take a minute because there's not a lot of original thinking involved and lo and behold the next thing I know it's been two and a half hours, I've got a desk full of papers and a calculator out and my eyes are bleary and I'm looking forward to filing these papers already and getting back to some nice research project.
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