Wednesday, February 23

Today was uneventful, as always. When I arrived at the office I had a short meeting with Kent, Sarah, and the legal assistant, Jake. We discussed the new case Kent just got from another lawyer in Decatur. As far as I can tell it's a very complex divorce case involving an ex-wife who is a lawyer and an ex-husband who is worth over $5 million. The wife is trying to get money from her ex-husband for legal advising that she provided to him regarding his family-run company. There are boxes full of files we received from the other lawyer in Decatur that must be sorted through, indexed, and organized. Kent assigned me a project to abstract a deposition from early last year regarding the financial aspects of the legal advising. A deposition is basically when a lawyer for the petitioner, the ex-husband, questions the respondent, in this case the ex-wife and the entire thing is recorded in a very detailed document. My job is to read through the entire deposition which can range from 50 to several hundred pages and basically summarize the important or relevant pieces of information presented. This was a bit difficult mostly due to the fact that when I asked Kent what information I should be looking for or focusing on he said that he wasn't quite sure what he was looking for himself. Since this file is so large he is still trying to get a feel for the case and find a good position to take. I did my best and started looking for anything that I thought might be relevant. It's a somewhat tedious job but hey, someone has to do the dirty work. It will probably take a few days for me to complete this but hopefully after I meet with Kent on it again I will have a better feel for it.