early week update

I’ve spent the past two days doing work for other attorneys. First on Monday I was in Salem, Massachusetts where I spent the day working as a law clerk at my student job. The attorneys at the office know I am starting my own law firm and they are open to helping me accomplish this task. Both attorneys at the office have shown me the ropes and helped me as I navigated my third year of law school, studying for the bar, and waiting on my results. I still come in about 2 days a week for about 4 hours a day to help organize files, record documents at the registry of deeds and track mortgage discharges.

While in Salem on Monday an interesting event occurred a few doors down from the office. Around noon a prisoner who was transported to district court escaped and an hour long manhunt ensued. I was in the office when I heard the helicopters flying overhead and police sirens sounding. It was crazy to go to whdh.com and look at the live scene from the helicopter and see my car in the parking garage and see my office from the sky. Eventually the police found the guy, still in his shackles, and normalcy returned to Salem.

After working in Salem for the majority of Monday morning and early afternoon I returned to Newburyport where I met with an attorney who had a research project for me to conduct for his office. Tuesday morning I went to his office to conduct the research and apply the case law to the present facts of his client’s case. This is the kind of work that three years of law school prepares you for. It was nice to make a little bit of money doing some simple research work.

After which I went with the attorney to a bench-bar conference at Salem Probate and Family Court. The conference was interesting and I found that I recognized a few faces in the crowd from running errands around Essex County and from going to the registry of deeds. I did notice that I was the youngest in the room by at least 6 years. I wonder why more new attorneys were not in attendance. I was introduced to a few attorneys while at the conference by the attorney who invited me. Though I had little background on the issues discussed the attorney that I attended the conference with clued me into the issues and the motives behind the parties raising the issues.

When I got out of the conference I saw that I had a voice mail. The voice mail was from a friend who called to tell me that they had a few potential SSDI referrals. One should be calling me tomorrow morning and the other may call. I went to my email and discovered that another friend had a potential child custody referral. Though my practice does not focus on Family Law I have a strong background in the area of law both from prior work experience and from my family law course taught by professor Kindergren, the unquestioned expert on Massachusetts Family Law. I also had a surprise waiting for me when I got home tonight. I received a letter from the Board of Bar Overseers with instructions for registering and getting my bar card.

I will try to develop a regular posting schedule in the near future. Hopefully I will be able to post 2 times a week.

Until next time,

Kenneth C. Allison, Esq.