You're a senior associate on a deal. Your partner wants to sign a markup tonight; the client's GC hasn't reviewed it. Your instinct is to slow down; the partner is impatient. How do you handle the next 60 minutes?

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Stay specific. One example, told well, beats three told fast. Make your decisions visible — what you chose between. End on what changed, for whom.

You're a senior associate on a deal. Your partner wants to sign a markup tonight; the client's GC hasn't reviewed it. Your instinct is to slow down; the partner is impatient. How do you handle the next 60 minutes?

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