“Hey, Robert!” I yelled after my boss as I noticed him locking his office door early this Friday afternoon. “Robert, just so you don’t forget, our trial exhibits for Blackpool Mining have to be filed on Tuesday, okay?”“Oh, yeah, yeah, sure, Eric. Well, ge...
At not-quite-thirty, I was still the youngest lawyer in Robert’s office, and so when we had the opportunity to take on a four-year contract with a large legal publishing company, those duties got dumped on me. It turns out, I was okay with that. Though it...
Ever since I watched Lori walk out of my office at nearly four this afternoon, I just could not keep my mind on my work. I looked over her “card” and key she had slipped into my pocket before she left and prayed she and Robert weren’t just setting me up f...
I was a young lawyer, eager to save the world, and very much in need of some real courtroom experience. Divorce work tended to be precisely the type of work that got young lawyers that fast-paced experience in litigation, and it was, quite honestly, diffi...
