Document Review

I purposefully got put on a big document review project the firm is working on, because I wanted to get a glimpse of what many seem to consider the bane of a young associate's working life. While it is undeniably mindless work, sometimes it can be pretty interesting. Right now I am looking through about a year's worth of a top financial executive's emails, and it is truly a view into a different world. We split the project up between enough people that no one has too onerous a share, so I will have to confess my first experience with document review has not been unpleasant. I'm sure it would be if I had the whole project to myself, or if the documents were less interesting. But it may be a long, long time before that happens.