Article Reflection

1. Provide the link (below) to the article in your reflection. 
   http://growingleaders.com/blog/first-soft-skill-develop-students/
    
2. Discuss several challenges youth may face in the workplace.
    Many youths lack the emotional ability to work.  Either they are too forward, loud, self-absorbed, or they lack self-awareness.  This makes them unsuitable candidates in a profession.  Many young people develop these characteristics as they grow up.  Children are always told they are special snowflakes, when in reality they are just like everyone else.  However, because they grow up with the "special snowflake" mindset, they believe that they are better than everyone else and only their beliefs matter.  This means that they believe their ideas are best, their look is ideal, and their abilities are supreme.  Who would want to work with someone so egotistical. 
   
   
3. Discuss social intelligence.
   Social intelligence is understanding what is going on with others around and acting accordingly.  This means understanding and being empathetic and also knowing the correct time and place to say whatever it is one is to say.  Social intelligence also includes knowing how to carry yourself in any given situation, which is to say knowing when to be confident and in charge and when to be quiet and ready to listen. 
   
4. Why is social intelligence important?
   Social intelligence is important because we have to understand the social ques that delegate our understanding of others current feelings in a situation.  If we cannot figure out how others feel, than we may come across as rude and unfriendly, which isn't just bad for the workplace, but is is bad for all of life.
   
   
   
5. Name one thing that spoke to you personally about the article.
   Being a decent human being.  This article is generally saying that young people are too boastful and believe that they are worth more than they are.  Because of this belief, people are loosing social intelligence.  So, basically the article is saying that people need to get a grip on reality and be more understanding towards others.

Criminal Defense PowerPoint

Here is a link to download my powerpoint over criminal defense lawyers.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/adq2v2sv1cysftg/Private%20Public%20Defender.pptx?dl=0

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.

Mentorship Write Up

My Profile: 

I always belonged to the honors or higher learning programs at whichever level of school I belonged too.  I did participate in sports at one point, mainly soccer, up until 8th grade.  After that I focused solely on academics.  So, in high school I took all the ap classes and honors classes I could; I even took a few Criminal Justice classes at Lanier Technical College.  In high school, I tried doing I few things.  I was in the band freshmen year; I played clarinet at the time and was first chair all middle school and that year in high school, but I didn't feel like I fit in with the rest of people in the band.  However, I continue to play the piano on my own.  Sophomore year I auditioned for an after school club called "Mock Trial."  I made the team and have been in it since.  Our team won district two years in a row and hope to win state this year.   

My Mentorship:
Last year, my junior year of high school, my AP literature teacher, who also was my Mock Trial coach, told me about a new help wanted listing on the school's website.  It was for an internship at a law firm.  I was fortunate enough to get an interview.  Obviously I was nervous at the interview.  An attorney is not someone you want questioning you about your character and who you are.  But, I had become decent at speaking over my time with Mock Trial, and I was able to perform well in the interview.  I became an intern that Summer in 2016 and have worked at the firm since.  I enjoy working for the firm greatly.  It's been increasingly interesting as I'm increasingly allowed to do more and more for the firm.  Now, I traval over Georgia to the surrounding counties' courthouses to deliver pleadings and motions.  I also do research for the two attorneys I work for.  I have learned how to use Westlaw, which is a program that all lawyers use to look up laws and previous court cases.  I'm very happy to know that I'll be able to continue to work for the law firm for a few more monthes until I head off to college. 

My future:  

Next year I plan to start college.  I have been picking up skills that are useful in everyday situations, like speaking to new people in a formal setting and how to travel.  However, the big take-away from the internship will be experience in being an attorney.  Maybe not mext year, but in a few years from now I'll be taking a class on material that I've already been introduced to on the job.  So, in a small way, I'll be ahead of the game, which in law school will be essential to my success. 

                              

Oct 24th

How has your perception of the internship/organization changed since you started the internship?

 I have come to understand more about how private public attorneys think.  At first, I assumed that the attorneys I would be working for were stern, scary people.  However, over the course of my internship thus far, I learned that the attorneys I work for are very nice people who wish to help people through tough times.

What is surprising you about this internship?

How interesting it is and what I'm allowed to do.  I had at first believed that I would be a "coffee boy."  But this is not the case.  I run all over Georgia going to different courthouses to deliver pleadings, I research laws and previous cases that could be used in a current client's case, and I file and do other day-to-day activities that are not as fun.  

What have you learned from the routine or boring parts of the internship?

I have learned that while going to court and speaking with clients and doing the more interesting stuff is a big part of being an attorney, another big portion is a great deal of paper work and other somewhat tedious tasks.  

Reflection: Oct 17

Reflection

How does the book or article fit into your potential research?  What does it add to your paper or ideas?

The article I chose, which was over the lack of public defenders for the state to use, fits into my research over if I really do want to be an attorney.  It adds the possible control the state and condition of the city has over an attorney's employment and freedoms over his own work.  While this isn't a magnanimous issue because it only effects areas that are impoverished, I have seen, in my own internship, how even private public defenders help the state.  So, the article adds to the deciding factors of not going into law.

Was the source helpful to you? Does the source relate to your potential topic?

Yes, the source shed light on a subject I had never thought of, previously.  Yes, while the article is not preciously about going into law and more-so about the condition of a few counties in Louisiana, it still provides plenty of information for my topic. 

How and where can you use this source in your potential research project?

I can use this source as a factor in my against section.  My research question, is going to be something similar to: Should I become an attorney?  The article I found will be used to give a negative perspective on public defenders, therefore it will say why I should not become an attorney.  To be precise, the article says that public defenders are underfunded in the judicial system, which leads to an unjust judge and an unjust trial system.  The people in this unjust system are either stuck in judgement purgatory never to be given a trial or rushed through their own trial and not given a fair chance to prove their own innocence.  Also, because of the unjust system, private attorneys are being used to work on public cases.  

Graphic Organizer Oct 10

Name: Kyle Butler                “In Louisiana, the Poor Lack Legal Defense”

Source #____ Bibliography (MLA or APA) 10 pts	Robertson, C. (2016). In Louisiana, the Poor Lack Legal Defense. Retrieved October 16, 2016, from http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/20/us/in-louisiana-the-poor-lack-legal-defense.html?_r=0
Annotation: (Describe ALL info. that might be important for your paper. Explain to the reader and/or summarize what might be found in this source) 35 pts	Poor cities are losing funding for public defenders, so the cities end up with an extreme lack of attorneys.  Because people do not have an attorney, they’re court dates are postponed indefinitely.  In the town of Abbeville, LA, the list of people who are waiting for their public defender is over 2,300 people.  Judges are ordering private lawyers to represent people for free.  Courts are reviving less money.  Judges are rushing to finish cases, one case lasted 1-2 minutes and ended with a 52,000-dollar bond.
Potential Quotes: (Are there any significant quotes you can use or paraphrase from this source?) 15 pts	“I’m the public defender in Vermilion Parish, right now the only public defender,” “because he had no lawyer, had no court date scheduled for the foreseeable future” “The number of tickets filed in Louisiana courts dropped by more than a quarter between 2009 and 2014” “Without a lawyer, he cannot make the case for a bail reduction. Without getting out of jail, he cannot go back to work. And so he waits.”
Assessment: (Analyze and explain why this source is credible) 15 pts	This source is credible because of the news company, The New York Times, the statistics used and quotations of individuals in the community.  The article gives information by using a quote from a man who has gone through the system with no attorney, it gives the statistics on how many districts in LA have attorney waiting lists, 7 of 42, and how many people are on those lists, 2300. The article also uses well known and respected people, for example the Orleans Parish chief public defender is quoted in the article.
Reflection: (How will you potentially use it?) 25 pts	I will use this article to say why you should or shouldn’t go in law and what the possible future is for any lawyer.  This article points out how even private attorneys are at risk of being affected by the state’s lack of funding, which being the area I want to go into, is a big issue.  The article also shows how unfair the justice system can be and how people go with an unfair trial that is biased against them, solely for the purpose of saving time and money.