Not sure if this is normal or I’m just overly sensitive. In every job I had before law school, I worked on a team of people that all worked together. They were invested in my learning and while it wasn’t always great, there was always camaraderie. I’m now a first year in “big” law in a regional office, and my practice group never meets together. There’s no shared calendar with vacations or out of office dates, I typically have no idea what anyone is working on unless I ask. Its been hard getting work, so I send emails to the practice group expressing that I have bandwidth and I’d be happy to just sit in on a client call for the learning experience of how to even be a lawyer, to no response.
I guess I’m wondering if my expectations are unrealistic? Too Disney Channel of what working in a practice group was supposed to be?