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Howdy All!!
Well I am feeling better today than I have all week… of course that’s not saying much. It’s amazing how far utter terror and a little adrenaline will take you.
Yesterday I was just minding my own business, working on case evaluations/proximate cause/whatever other boring lawyer bullshit that do all day, when the head partner in my firm comes into my office with a file and a mapquest. They had a deposition out of town that needed to be covered and everybody was busy. This is REALLY odd for a number of reasons:
Well it went really well. I kicked a little ass, got the opposing witness to contradict himself and thus screwed up his credibility, I rock.
The bad news is, I was feeling so good about myself that I kinda forgot that I was still sick and decided to go out for MANY celebratory drinks.
This morning was a little rough, but once again, nothing a little caffeine and even more terror and adrenaline couldn’t fix. This was a good thing, because I was in court for the first time this morning at 8:00 am.
Bottom line, we won all five of our motions including mine!
Oddly enough, I wasn’t nervous at all (or was that the hangover/Dayquil/green tea talking?). I did what needed to be done, and the only time I screwed up was when I was introducing myself…
I am so slick it hurts… :(
Oh well, it’s over and now I get to go home, probably drink way too much again… and then I’m back to work on Saturday… my first weekend in the office…
*sigh*
Enough about me... how was your day?
Well I am feeling better today than I have all week… of course that’s not saying much. It’s amazing how far utter terror and a little adrenaline will take you.
Yesterday I was just minding my own business, working on case evaluations/proximate cause/whatever other boring lawyer bullshit that do all day, when the head partner in my firm comes into my office with a file and a mapquest. They had a deposition out of town that needed to be covered and everybody was busy. This is REALLY odd for a number of reasons:
1) I have only really been a “lawyer” in this firm for 3 days (before that I was just a clerkSo there I was… thrown into the fire… his last words of encouragement, “the good news is, you won’t be able to fuck this up too badly”. Great.
2) We have discussed me doing dep’s before, but that was something that was going to happen in the FUTURE!!!
3) I have never been to a dep, watched a dep, hell I can barely spell the word deposition without the aid of spell-check!!!
Well it went really well. I kicked a little ass, got the opposing witness to contradict himself and thus screwed up his credibility, I rock.
The bad news is, I was feeling so good about myself that I kinda forgot that I was still sick and decided to go out for MANY celebratory drinks.
“yes your honor, my name is Jason, and I’m a dumbass.”
This morning was a little rough, but once again, nothing a little caffeine and even more terror and adrenaline couldn’t fix. This was a good thing, because I was in court for the first time this morning at 8:00 am.
Bottom line, we won all five of our motions including mine!
Oddly enough, I wasn’t nervous at all (or was that the hangover/Dayquil/green tea talking?). I did what needed to be done, and the only time I screwed up was when I was introducing myself…
“yes your honor, my name is Jason Seifert and I represent the pl…and…tiff…. Uh….. the plaintiff”.
I am so slick it hurts… :(
Oh well, it’s over and now I get to go home, probably drink way too much again… and then I’m back to work on Saturday… my first weekend in the office…
*sigh*
Enough about me... how was your day?
posted by Jay at 2:23 PM
2 Comments:
Your first day as a big boi attorney and you went out and got drunk? At least now you know that even though lawyers are stodgy and old, they still know how to pawtay! So, maybe you're not too old to have some fun after all! Tee hee hee
Yeah, friday can be kind of rough around the office b/c for some reason some of the partners feel the need to go out drinking on Thrusday night...
Once again... I am a dumbass :(
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