I noticed was how different the whole legal atmosphere was from my moot court experience. Trial work seems to be very repetitive. My division mainly focuses on domestic violence, vandalism, theft, battery, and DUIs. The legal arguments are always the same in these cases. For example, DV cases the defense is either self-defense or accident. In DUI cases, the public defenders always look to the maintenance records of the breathalyzer machines and question the arresting officers' integrity. Therefore, there is not a lot of new research to be done before a case. This is unlike a lot of appellate cases where every case is fairly unique.