Fun and Games
Working as an extern at the Cook County State’s Attorney office isn’t all fun and games. I’d say fun and games (trials and motions) constitute 5% of my time; 95% of the work the Assistant State Attorneys have me doing is clerical in nature.
My typical morning:
-photocopy a case file
-pull up a defendant’s driving abstract
-photocopy another case file
-call the police officer check-in room to see whether officer Belding has shown up to court yet
-fill out a police officer notifier, telling officer Bliss when she has to show up to court next
-photocopy another case file
I realize this blog entry must be disillusioning for you, my readers. I promise my next entry will be filed with greed, sex, and revenge.
(You legal-minded readers will surely recognize that last sentence as an illusory promise, which, for you non-legal-minded readers, is pretty much what it sounds like.)
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July 18th, 2007 at 9:52 pm
This one wasn’t filled with greed, sex, and revenge? Because for a finance sector drone like me, your day is backed with action and glamour. Oh, Officer Bliss, you scoundrel…
July 19th, 2007 at 12:15 am
Barrister Susie,
“glamour”?
-Rick Lax
July 19th, 2007 at 3:07 pm
As a former employee (for a period of less than one month) of Canon Business Solutions, a wholly owned subsidiary of Canon Inc., the world’s leading producer of multifunctional devices (copy machines), I object to this post for three reasons:
1)your implication that copying things isn’t fun (which everyone knows is BS–whether you copy your butt or a case file, it’s sweet)
2)the photographical glorification of one of Canon’s far inferior competitors’ machines (Xerox, satan’s earthly enterprise in optical reproductive products)
3)the scarcity of parenthetical clauses (except for the last paragraph)