Miss Manners: I’m a lawyer but clients keep mistaking me for a paralegal
A 25-year-old attorney asks for advice after clients at hearings assume she’s still in law school or a paralegal.
DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am a 25-year-old-lawyer who worked as a law clerk for a year before passing the bar exam. When I accompany the partner to hearings where a client is present, I invariably get asked whether I am still in law school or how I like being a paralegal.