Law Clerking

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.

Summer Work

Last week I started working for a Personal Injury firm in town. Having worked so much for insurance, mostly in property and casualty insurance in the past few years, it has been interesting to see the business from the other side. Most importantly I am getting a chance to work with people who actually litigate and get that much needed resume worthy experience stuff.

It has also been pretty nice to get the rest of the story when it comes to what practice is really like. The stuff you don't get in law school that's pretty important.

Things that need to be done while in law school, even if you don't get paid for it, so you can get a job when school is over.