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LawSchoolandInternships 16 - 04 Jul 2008 - Main.JesseCreed
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I'm curious about how others are feeling about their internships and clerkships so far this summer. I know there was substantial concern among students this past year about how law school was training us and will continue to train us to do the work of a lawyer. For what it's worth, so far, I've been pleasantly surprised. I've worked on various types of projects in various areas within a large Indy law firm, and I'm finding that there is nothing that I can't think my way through and bottom out on, by using the "tools" that we were exposed to in law school, which I don't think I would have been able to do nearly as effectively before I started law school. But I also know that it takes me substantially longer to complete a project than would be the case with someone who has more experience under her belt. I'm certainly relying on my low billing rate to offset this discrepancy. Granted, I know it's a long way from here to thinking about partnership, but at least I feel like I've got some basics down. | | | I would say that law school really hasn't helped me much in my job - not skill-wise, anyway. I think having a background in civil procedure, con law (very much so, considering the type of litigation I'm working on), etc. is helpful, but I can't say that I'm now somehow a better writer or a more analytical thinker.
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To add one point to this string of comments, it also seems that whenever you first stretch your mind around the assignment at hand, you think, "Why, this sounds like a customary enough dispute that there must be an entire cargo of cases factually on point." And so you begin. Search, click, search, search, click, click, read, search, click, read, next term, click, read, next document, read, read, search - ughhh. Nothing. Exasperation.
I guess legal reasoning is premised on more tenuous similes than first imagined. Everything is like something else, but equally unlike it just as well, which ultimately reminds me of Felix Cohen and the "Rule of Law."
-- JesseCreed - 04 Jul 2008 | | |
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