Law in Contemporary Society

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 But as I began to reflect on the year I had just completed, I was able to put my conversation with Sandy in context. Perhaps I do not yet know the attorney you call at two o’clock in the afternoon on a Saturday to help a cook being cheated out of $10 every week. But I do carry with me the values I have developed over my adult life that help me spot an injustice where one exists. And I have a feeling that those values are harder to retain in the practice of law than any labor statute.
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>		* Update: Sandy is still getting her hours cut down but her restaurant recently plunged from three stars to one star in one ranking. It seems the labor troubles are beginning to show in the food. The capitalist system is likely to take its course one way or another: either in better treatment for better food or in bankruptcy.

My work at Legal Services this summer has only served to confirm my general opinion that law school is no place to learn to practice law. Practicing law is the way to do it. After one two-hour CLE on uncontested divorces and a dozen client intakes I have a feeling I know more about how to divorce two people than I’m ever going to learn in family law.

But one benefit to law school I did not account for in my analysis is the benefit of being part of a legal community – especially one in which people hold similar values. After publicizing my friend’s story, even among this small group, a member of our class came to me with information about how to file an anonymous complaint with the state’s Department of Labor, information I have passed along to her. It seems by sharing knowledge we can make change happen in people’s lives.

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