Look, we’ve all messed up on the job. Sometimes it’s behind the scenes where it can easily be covered up. Sometimes it’s in front of the attorneys at the annual retreat.

Either way, when these things happen in-house where our clients, peers and competitors are none the wiser — we hope — we have more

It happens to the best of us, and it happened to me last week. I f***ed up at work and it pissed a partner off big time. He was right to be pissed, because I f***ed up. My first instinct was to deflect the blame and project it onto him (Too sensitive?? Doesn’t understand the