|
[15 Mar 2007|07:54pm] |
i'm seriously freaking out now, i might have to follow this person, i.e. "the most respected individual litigator in the country", to the supreme court in a few days' time. "an intellectual scythe", "the best respected and most feared litigator",... he's better known as the ceo of d&n, and he conducted the nkf trial. i'm actually really terrified because unlike all the other interns, i'm clueless with regard to legal procedures, documents, terms and such, and since i'll be going ON MY OWN, probably in the same vehicle as the man himself, it will be painfully obvious. i'm actually thinking of not turning up at work on that day, but then again, i DO want to be there.
today i had to file 800 STACKS of documents into huge files, in serial order-- it took me until lunch and my palm still hurts from using the hole puncher non-stop. after that, it took me 4 hours to read and understand just three pages of a case from the SLJ, because every few lines or so, i was assaulted by strange phrases: 'caveatable interest', 'attempted illegality which never crystallized', &etc. damn, i'm pathetic. company and land law = UGHHHH, because it's always either about money, dishonoured contracts, or time-frame issues. i've learnt a lot of non-legal things, e.g. about this thing called 'option to purchase' which is essentially a contract which binds the seller but allows the buyer to commit by a certain deadline and pay a set price at a later date. i also learnt a lot about insolvency and corporate takeovers. and no, i still don't know how to use excel (it's probably really easy since my dad is a pro at it. i've never even bothered to try though). i cheat by copying tables from existing documents and just changing all the fields, and well, each time i do it i pray really hard that no one's watching me and sniggering.
i'd much rather be reading sensational, drama-filled family/juvenile court cases, but everyone on my level pooh-poohs family law (or so it seems). i think if i mentioned international law and human rights law, they'd laugh in my face, for having my head way too high in the clouds. also, everyone there thinks i want to be a lawyer, and that's not even the case! i don't even know for sure if i'll end up in a law course or in something entirely different, since i will apply for other things as well. i just think law is something worth being trained in. my goal in life (or the closest thing to a goal) is to be self-employed and happy. maybe this will get me there, or maybe this is a terrible mistake-- but i do want to learn, and i don't have much to lose right now.
|
|