"There are known knowns ... there are known unknowns ...
but there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don't
know we don't know ... it is the latter category that tends to
be the difficult ones." — Donald Rumsfeld, former U.S.
secretary of defence.
Law students and young lawyers often find themselves in the
world of unknown unknowns. And that is a dangerous and very
stressful place to reside.
That was the case for Zack Silverberg, when he started his
professional journey.
Zack, now an associate at Mills & Mills LLP in Toronto,
spent his 2L summer working in-house negotiating large contracts.
Law school hadn't prepared him at all for this, and he had to
learn on the fly. With no formal training, Zack learned by
watching. It was — in his words — the only option to
learn.
