work experience

lallychops

starting on monday in dublin doing commercial practice for a week any ideas as to what i should research etc? no idea what ill be doing at all!

skeenan89

well done on getting some work experience! any time ive done work experience ive never had to research anything! perhaps have a read of the business section of a few newspapers....most likely you'll be photocopying etc...:D

Reloc8

Don't worry about researching anything. In a week you're not going to garner any real relevant academic legal knowledge as such. You'll get exposure to the environment of a commercial practice and the practical aspecst of working there which is very valuable.

Basically, turn up on time, make yourself useful, keep your eyes and ears open and soak it all in.

The more useful you make yourself (by basically doing anything anyone asks you to do and offering to help if you're idle) on the first couple of days the more likely it is you'll get into something interesting during the week.

Courts close down today for 10 days so there won't be any scheduled court appearances although things do crop up.

shaneybaby

Reloc8 wrote: »

Basically, turn up on time, make yourself useful, keep your eyes and ears open and soak it all in.

The more useful you make yourself (by basically doing anything anyone asks you to do and offering to help if you're idle) on the first couple of days the more likely it is you'll get into something interesting during the week.

^ This. ^

I've done some super daft things in my time but we've had our fair share of crazies over the years. One managed to put one of those huge staples through her thumb and missed two days because of it.running around with the page still stuck to her to her hand. good times;)

so in addition to Reloc above be careful with the staplers. and don't stick your hand in the photocopier if it gets jammed. they tend to be quite hot (that incident required only minor emergency treatment though)

and before anyone starts no i'm not mocking yer one with the staple, she was nice and useful and i believe is now well on her way to joining the legal profession in a more permanent capacity...

lallychops

hahahha cheers guys. yeah should hopefully be interesting anyway. even more fun due to the traelling arrangements. gotta put myself up there for the week

Reloc8

shaneybaby wrote: »

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and before anyone starts no i'm not mocking yer one with the staple, she was nice and useful and i believe is now well on her way to joining the legal profession in a more permanent capacity...

I had one who insisted on sitting in the dock when in a criminal court (district courts in the bridewell so those old fashioned benches up the front, not the new trendy behind a glass pane arrangements).

About three days into the stint I told him probably not to.

I met another one who sat in on a commercial consultation. Half an hour in he said 'but that can't be right' in response to what the solicitor involved had advised.

He was sent down to the dungeon and made to file stuff for the rest of the week. And by file I mean empty and by stuff I mean waste paper bags.

(ps I sort of agreed with him)

When I did work exp in transition year myself I managed to :-

1. Get lost between the office and baggot street when sent to get lunch for a few people. Came back two and a half hours later. Couldn't remember the name of the place. Or where it was.

2. More or less destroy an original (although not hugely important (!)) title deed.

lallychops

the getting lost bit sounds alot like me :P hopefully i wont do something completely ridiculous. this thread is becoming a place for work experience horror stories haha