I'm a huge fan of your work and I'm beginning my career as a legal journalist myself. I recently graduated from college and got a job at a "legal news for lawyers" publication.
I really enjoy reading legal briefs and working with legal arguments. But I find that both my sources and my superiors sometimes don't take me seriously. They don't seem to believe that a young woman with no formal legal training can possibly make sense of these matters, and they often think I don't know what I'm talking about. They can be very condescending, often re-explaining simple things to me or telling me that the stories I pitch are too difficult for me to understand.
I know that you began reporting on legal matters from a young age. How did you get people to take you seriously? How did you get them to respect your understanding?
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I'm a huge fan of your work and I'm beginning my career as a legal journalist myself. I recently graduated from college and got a job at a "legal news for lawyers" publication.
I really enjoy reading legal briefs and working with legal arguments. But I find that both my sources and my superiors sometimes don't take me seriously. They don't seem to believe that a young woman with no formal legal training can possibly make sense of these matters, and they often think I don't know what I'm talking about. They can be very condescending, often re-explaining simple things to me or telling me that the stories I pitch are too difficult for me to understand.
I know that you began reporting on legal matters from a young age. How did you get people to take you seriously? How did you get them to respect your understanding?
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