-: My name is Nicholas Wittenberg.
I'm a 2007 undergrad BA in Political Science
and graduated from law school in 2011.
I'm Attorney-Advisor at the United States
Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, DC.
I'm on detail to the White House Office
of Science and Technology Policy.
So you're juggling multiple projects
with multiple individuals,
and team effort and working well with others is critical
because, in order for the pieces
to all fall in the right place,
you really have to have excellent communication skills,
and you have to be somebody
that you really like meeting different type of people
and adapting to different work styles
and just various kind of organizational instincts
so that you can do well and so the organization can do well.
It can be an adjustment.
As a new attorney, it's just realizing how
the day-to-day logistics work out,
and that kind of helps you once you kind of take that in
and realize that that helps you substantively
in the area of law that you practice.