Young Lawyers offer new attorneys a way to break into the Brooklyn Bar
When Daniel Antonelli went to his first Brooklyn Bar Association (BBA) meeting, he was overwhelmed. Everyone was nice and collegial, but he wasn’t far removed from law school and there he was standing in a crowd of lawyers and judges some of whom had been working as long as he had been alive. It was intimidating.
Eventually Antonelli was recruited by and found a place among the Young Lawyers, a section of the BBA meant to help lawyers practicing for less than 10 years to transition into the larger group.
“It was intimidating because when I first joined I didn’t know anybody,” Antonelli said. “I was probably about 28. I was one of the very youngest so when I went the first time there are people who have been working for 20 or 30 years and it is very intimidating. I think it takes a real specific type of personality to jump into that.”