Assignments, Yay!

I don't know about you, but when I don't have enough things to do at work, I get worried. I also get bored, but mostly, I get worried because I feel like I'm not given assignments because attorneys who worked with me previously were unhappy with my work, so they don't return. Since I usually don't get a lot of feedback, getting more work from the same attorney that I had worked with is often the only feedback I ever get. So I get happy when I receive assignments, and very worried when I have too little to do.

Which was why I had been kind of worried for the past few days at work. Not enough to do. Spent almost entire days watching ongoing trials in the courthouse nearby. It was interesting stuff, since the trial was about sexual harassment and quite a few whoppers came out during cross-examination. Just to give you an idea, the plaintiff admitted during cross-examination that she "brushed her hand" against the crotch of one of her co-workers! And when asked why, she muttered a few words about how she wanted to "fit in." WTH?

But, back to my discussion about work. While I greatly enjoy watching a live trial (the jury found for the defendant, by the way), I'd much rather watch the trial while I have a pile of paper waiting on my desk for me to review when I return. I don't want to spend whole days in the courtroom literally BECAUSE I have nothing to do.

Well today I received two new assignments. Yay. I even stayed until 5:30 to research for this one case. The cases are very itneresting, one about sentencing, the other about rules of evidence. Me very happy.