Today is my final day at McArdle Law Office--at least for a while. I may return and work on Martin Luther King, Jr. day when we don't have school, but t will depend on if I have any club/extracurricular stuff going on that day or not.
Today I am going to finish a summary of the drug case that I actually have seen from beginning to end, a criminal case that I have had a lot to do with. It is one of the first cases where I completely understand what happened and why in the legal proceedings.
Today was pretty neat. I was able to write about the direct influence our representation had on the outcome of a case. I believe justice was properly served. This man was given the opportunity to recuperate from the series of medical problems we outlined in his motion, while still paying the price for his crime.
It felt so much easier to write this document because I knew where I was going with it, but my difficulties in legal writing aren't as prominent as they were when I first began here at the office. I now look at legal writing as a series of objectives, and make a "To Do" list of sorts to cross out each point when I make it in my writing. I write the essentials don first, then add the minor details, and I feel like I've accomplished the proper techniques of legal writing: be concise, and address each aspect of the case that is central to the argument.
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