Joseph Dworak, Berliner Cohen litigation partner, is featured in The Recorder’s July 20, 2009, Mentors Special Section. Readers were invited to submit essays about mentors who have made a difference in their careers.
Now a partner in the litigation department at Berliner Cohen, John Domingue’s essay revealed as a young associate working with Mr. Dworak that…”while my mentor’s communication style was unorthodox, it was reliable. I always knew where I stood. The greatest affront to good mentoring is the mistaken belief that young attorneys should be veiled from the opinions of their superiors. The notion that praise fosters weakness and constructive criticism undermines self-discovery is hogwash, and my mentor fully understood that…”
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