Nov 7th

 How you feel they are a “partner in your education

I feel that my employers are a partner in my education because they assist me and go out of their way to find tasks for me, that are new and part of their attorney job.  I want to learn how to be an attorney.  So, every time I am assigned a new job that is relevant and part the lawyer role I learn a little more about what the job entails.  Both attorneys know I want to learn how to be an attorney, and both will try to find even small parts of their job that I can assist them with.  For example, just recently one had a case that he needed someone to call a witness who phoned in a 911 call to subpoena him.  He asked me to make the call.  I've never done this, nor really knew what it meant to be subpoenaed.  So, obviously I learned what it was I was doing.  I do tasks like like this often and each time I learn something new, and all of that wouldn't be possible without the attorneys.




Have you learned about new jobs or careers while at your internship?  If so, what are they and what are your thoughts about them?
  I have learned that there are lot of jobs you don't think about.  When you think about the judicial system you think of the judge, prosecute, defense attorney, and the person on trial.  But, in order for the system to go on, you have to set up the paperwork with the Solicitor, the DA or Solicitor's secretary.  You have to create a subpoena for each witness.  Check in with the prosecutor, which means getting pleading and piece of discovery from their paralegal.  To me, all of these jobs are very important, but at the same time they are very boring.  They do the same thing every day.  Bot, never the less, these jobs are crucial to the process and keep the system afloat.
What have you done that has made your supervisor’s life easier?

I can do part of the paralegal's work.  I file, take paperwork to and from courthouses, the jail, and other places around Georgia, and I help with the small things around the office.  For the attorneys, I do research to assist them with their cases.  Which means, that instead of having to take time out of their day to go down to the courthouse to go inside the law library, I can do that for them.  I also, save them the expense of having to learn how to do something more "new age."  For example, just recently I was given the job of making a 100 slide PowerPoint for one of the attorney's presentation.  He will give me the information, but he isn't great at using PowerPoint.  So, I will make it for him.