In her first few months after joining the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, Judge Lara Montecalvo started an Excel spreadsheet to help her track cases.
On Friday, she told Boston College Law School graduates about a special tab in her spreadsheet labeled “lessons learned” and encouraged them to create something similar.
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