Wow today I was way busier than I expected. Lots more bridge work plus tighter deadlines = super-busy. I've pretty much fallen into a groove with the bridge project. I'm looking through agreements, calling state departments of transportation, sorting through documents, filling in tables, and printing on nifty Nossa-letterhead.
I also have come to really appreciate my secretarial assistant Luciana. That woman gets things done. Burn a couple CDs for me to send to a client? Done. Mail out the CDs? Done. As a multi-decade veteran of Nossaman, she also has invaluable information about all the little logistical things that a newbie attorney would need to know ("Luciana, how do I dial out?"). She is the secretary for about 4 attorneys (my neighbors) and I'm amazed that she can juggle all of us on a daily basis. Granted, I'm not a real attorney yet so I'm not so much of a burden. But still, it's pretty impressive.
I also got a new assignment today from Tom Long. Litigation stuff. I've been a little litigation deprived for the past few weeks, so it'll be nice to exercise my "meanie" muscles again.
Lunch: Just me, Ashley, Adam, and Adam at Dan's Deli again. I had a regular salami hoagie, and discovered that it's not that much different from a genoa salami hoagie, despite what the deli man told me. Adam (#1), Ashley and I have pretty much concluded that it will be our de facto eatery when we're not being wined and dined by Nossaman. Ashley has actually started calling it My Favorite Deli. I just call it MFD for short.
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About that secretarial assistant - Is it strange to you to have to ask a woman older than you to do things? I don't know you, but I'm assuming you're a 20-something guy. I'm sure any strangeness is easy to get over, but I wondered if you had any comments about having a secretary - even 1/4 of a secretary.
I don't really think too much of it. As a summer associate with dinky little assignments, I don't need to go to Luciana nearly as much as the other attorneys do, so I don't actually deal with her on a regular basis. Just when I have little questions here or there. But you do have a point -- some of the other summers and I talked about how it must be strange for the secretaries to have these young pre-lawyers come in with no knowledge of how the firm works and completely reliant on their secretaries, only to rise much higher in the food chain and get way better paid after only a few years. But that's for another blog post. Thanks for reading.
Especially when you'll get paid for 10 weeks work what they probably make in 30 or 40 weeks.
I like reading your blog. I'm a 0L and wondering how all this is going to be next year. Maybe I'll see you around Boalt next year.
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