Final Reflection Research Paper

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Final Reflection Paper Intro to legal practice has been a really big eye opening class for me. I thought that I had gotten a good understanding of what a lawyer does day to day when I worked as a law clerk in undergraduate school. However, I learned that there is no day to day and that lawyers do a lot of different activities in the pursuit of helping their client. I also learned that it isn’t enough to just specialize in one area of law. What a client needs done can span a lot of different areas of practice and more frequently it can be many areas of practice all at the same time in one task, so it’s important as a law student to take a wider variety of classes beyond the subjects tested on the bar exam. During the semester there were a lot of surprises, I came into class everyday wondering what was going to happen next. At first this class was a little tough, admittedly I did not retain a lot over winter break from contracts, civil procedure, and torts other than the basics. It was rough to come in to class and watch as other students answered questions easily as if they had studied those classes for the past few years rather than the past few …show more content…

I am used to doing all the research I need to accomplish a goal and to learn as much as I can before submitting an assignment. It wasn’t easy to accept that there were restraints on what you could and couldn’t do because of the financial limits of your client. There was nothing more dreadful than having to say more research needed to be done to get a clearer answer in a memo or presentation. Eventually though it became easier to do as the class went on, however I think that figuring out how to work within financial means and cutting back on the use of Lexis and balancing what the client can afford and the cost of research will still be something that I need to work

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