{"id":1254,"date":"2006-06-24T14:35:20","date_gmt":"2006-06-24T14:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1254"},"modified":"2006-06-24T14:35:20","modified_gmt":"2006-06-24T14:35:20","slug":"summer_job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1254","title":{"rendered":"Summer Job"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since May, we’ve had a legal intern at work to help us with some tasks related to the implementation of the Demonstration.  He’s a smart guy and eager to help, but I often have to remind myself to ask for his assistance.  Most state employees don’t have much in the way of administrative support, which means I usually end up doing my own copying and mailing, not to mention my own proofreading and research.  It’s great to have the help, but it requires a slight shift in my work habits. <\/DIV>
 <\/DIV>
I’m also reminded that my first legal internship was ten years ago this summer.  I worked at the Minnesota Disability Law Center<\/A> and I remember being in a constant state of mild unease because I was never completely sure I knew what I was doing.  Most people don’t understand this, but the core law school curriculum doesn’t teach you much about the practical aspects of working in a legal setting.  Law school teaches you to think like an attorney, but you’re on your own when it comes to figuring out how to do day-to-day tasks like writing a letter to a client or drafting a policy white paper.  <\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since May, we’ve had a legal intern at work to help us with some tasks related to the implementation of the Demonstration.  He’s a smart guy and eager to help, but I often have to remind myself to ask for his assistance.  Most state employees don’t have much in the way of administrative support, which […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-ke","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}