Half Way Through |
| Published: February 25, 2009, 10:29 am |
| Tags: personal, class, law, paralegal, research, school, specialty |
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I am starting week 4 of my Paralegal classes. I am more than half way through this term. It is a lot more work than I anticipated, but it is teaching me a lot of what I will need to know. The one class is teaching me about research. While I am seasoned in research of a normal variety (that is all I did my last year while getting my BA), legal research is different. Not only do I have to learn the lingo, I have to learn the hierarchy of authority and what resources provide that authority, how to find it and how to read the findings. I have a 10 page paper I have to write due week 6 and I have not begun. I do not leave things to the end when it comes to school, but each week we learn another piece to the research, so I can't really get started. I am going to be a lunatic that final week. The other class is jurisprudence and we are learning the various areas of law. For the 10 page paper due week 6 in this class, we have to pick a specialty. This is hard because [ Full article ] |
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