This has been a pretty busy week so far (yeah, I know it's only Wednesday). At the law clerking gig I've been doing some general housekeeping on a few files -- putting together petitions, filing petitions, writing a few letters, answering discovery requests, and putting documents in order for the file.
I attended a mediation for the first time the other day too. Mediation, as I learned, is a court ordered deal to get parties another chance to get to settlement before going to trial. The mediator's job is to get one side to pay a little more and the other to accept a little less with the hope there is a meeting somewhere in the middle. Unfortunately we were hit with some surprise information that took a real winner of a case and made it a real loser. Lesson learned: trust your client, but don't trust your client's memory -- ever!
Somewhere in the I've also been working on getting the Career Services website updated, which has been going well but, it take times (that I don't really have), and still taking care of the administration tasks for the job bank database (which, fortunately, doesn't take much time).
As if that wasn't enough I also have a few potential future clients, with some problems, who will probably need to be referred someone soon.
Oh, and school starts again in twelve days.
