In the beginning...
I was once much like you, completely oblivious to the legal system until one fateful day, when it smacked me rudely in the face. That's what happens when you're just going along minding your own business. No worries though, because after one divorce, an international child custody battle and 2 law degrees, I think I have you covered.
I am not her..
Phone calls on the weekend....sorry I draw the line at taking calls from clients in my free time, which when you have kids isn't what you'd actually call free time.
A day in the life of....
I worked at my last law firm for over 16 months, and it has not been an easy time. I've had to deal with a bully outside legal contractor who decided that I was her apprentice. No thanks. I'd rather be stuck on Tatooine. Our legal secretary was off for 6 months after a bereavement, which meant you know who was on phones quite a bit until we finally got a temp. There were lots of threats from upper management, that we did not have enough clients and how I needed to bring in more money. Suddenly, my job was under threat. I was under stress, and my clients were suffering. All this was followed by the law firm failing its law society accreditation. Hmmm...wonder how that happened. The law firm suddenly told us to complete some training courses they had just purchased so that the firm could full-fill the law society's conditions for accreditation. Two days after successfully completing the courses, those of us who had completed the training courses were given our marching orders.
Life may give you lemons but sometimes there's an amazing receptionist who has your back.
When I first arrived at my previous firm, there was talk about possibly providing some free legal advice at a church or some other venue. Talk went on for about a month, and I decided to take matters into my own hands and start advertising, no budget offered but I did what I could, and for the first time since the idea had been conceived 2 years before I had started, we had potential new clients walking through our doors seeking legal advice once every month. Well naturally, the outside legal contractor started poaching my potential clients. She went so far as to walk into a client meeting, and physically try to escort the client into the bigger conference room where she planned to take over the meeting. The client declined, and so did I.. After the incident, the receptionist who had witnessed this, started double booking the contractor with the most difficult people, or not telling her that we were still holding the free legal advice day that month, which allowed me to support the people who really needed it,
Just another day...
You may have seen that little incident on the news in London, where the police blocked and cordoned off the entire area which happened to include the law firm I was working at after a man was waving a knife from a third floor window. We were stuck in the office the entire day, not even being able to grab lunch. Having armed police right outside our office shouting at the suspect, was like watching a TV show.
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