Selling Legal/Judicial Research Unit Experience?
Posted: Fri May 13, 2011 9:20 pm
Does anyone know how valuable this experience is on a resume/CL?
For those that don't know, its basically the stable of attys that handle all of a CA courts law and motion, sub-felony criminal appeals, and other random matters. The rest of the job is judges running in for a minute, asking for help on an issue, and then running back out of the office.
Basically its huge research and writing. I am getting more law and motion experience per hour than any SA alive (tentative rulings on demurrers/MSJ/discovery/all sorts of other random stuff), the "Wende" reviews of criminal appeals provide great experience on that side of things (basically writing huge memos for the appellate tribunal). I am networking with the judges and the commonly seen DA/PD folk, and I have the ability to witness trials at will, generally cherry picking the witness examination and closings for tips (good to make friends with the attys).
I think this job is awesome, but I am wondering if it is too rare to actually be marketable...does anyone have any experience with this kind of position? Can I sell it like I would sell a trial-level internship?
I am trying to make a decision between staying at the court vs taking another offer for unpaid work during fall of my 3L year, any advice would be appreciated.
GPA is bottom of top 1/3 at a t30, so no easy firm jobs for me, plan on grabbing some DA/PD experience before I graduate and just mass mailing the entire state.
For those that don't know, its basically the stable of attys that handle all of a CA courts law and motion, sub-felony criminal appeals, and other random matters. The rest of the job is judges running in for a minute, asking for help on an issue, and then running back out of the office.
Basically its huge research and writing. I am getting more law and motion experience per hour than any SA alive (tentative rulings on demurrers/MSJ/discovery/all sorts of other random stuff), the "Wende" reviews of criminal appeals provide great experience on that side of things (basically writing huge memos for the appellate tribunal). I am networking with the judges and the commonly seen DA/PD folk, and I have the ability to witness trials at will, generally cherry picking the witness examination and closings for tips (good to make friends with the attys).
I think this job is awesome, but I am wondering if it is too rare to actually be marketable...does anyone have any experience with this kind of position? Can I sell it like I would sell a trial-level internship?
I am trying to make a decision between staying at the court vs taking another offer for unpaid work during fall of my 3L year, any advice would be appreciated.
GPA is bottom of top 1/3 at a t30, so no easy firm jobs for me, plan on grabbing some DA/PD experience before I graduate and just mass mailing the entire state.