Reference no: EM131626721
Answer these questions and follow the format that was asked. You can just made up the interview but REMEMBER that it has to makes sense.
Your report must be two full pages (not one and one-half pages), double-spaced, and must be in memorandum ("memo") form. Please do not exceed two pages, and please do not use spacing methods or font size to cram three or four pages of material into two pages (you will lose points, if you do), or to make your memorandum look lengthier than it is. Smallest font size allowed would be the equivalent of Times New Roman 12, or Calibri or Arial 11.
OPTION 1 (THE INTERVIEW OPTION):
Remember that the interview must be done either in person (face-to-face, which is the preferred method) or by phone (including Skype). You may not do this interview by email, texting, or other written e-communication means (contact me in Conversations/Inbox if this is a problem, especially for anyone currently in a foreign country). For your interview, make sure you get at least the following information from the person you interview ("interviewee") (and when I use the word "lawyer", please understand that to also include "judge" and "paralegal"-just change "lawyer" to the applicable "judge" or "paralegal" when you see "lawyer" below, to make the directions work for your choice of interviewee):
1) full name
2) office where currently working--firm/military/other government work/corporation or other business organization?
3) what drove the interviewee to become a lawyer
4) how long the person has been a lawyer, area of law in which the person is currently working (family law, personal injury, estates, bankruptcy, etc., for lawyers/paralegals; which court for judge), and whether the person has switched areas of law in which the person worked
5) What the person likes best about practicing law [or working as a judge or paralegal]
6) what the person likes least about practicing law [or working as a judge or paralegal]
7) what was the lawyer's favorite case to work on? (and maybe also ask about least favorite?)
8) is the lawyer still happy being a lawyer?
9) your impressions about the law and the legal profession before and after interviewing the lawyer
10) any advice the lawyer would give you about college, the law, or the legal profession concerning your future
and then
11) any/all of the things you would like to ask (about which you are curious) that the interviewee is willing to answer, and will help you complete two full pages of memorandum!
(This is memo form: At the top of the page, the following four items on the left top side of the page, one item per line, so it looks like this (and this one part of the memo needs to be single-spaced, not double-spaced):
Then, underneath that heading, the body of the memo is your two-page report).
Do not include any other information at the top of the page (e.g., title of the course; name of assignment; any headers), besides the four items shown above.
The body of the memo must be in prose (the body of the report must be in conventional paragraph form, without headings, and paragraphs are not to be numbered), rather than reported as a straight "question and answer" interview. (Do not just put, e.g., the text of question 1 from the assignment directions, and quote the interviewee's answer to question 1.) Also, do not just make your paragraphs a series of quotes from the interviewee-this is your paper, and therefore should include your words, not the interviewee's. You may paraphrase your interviewee's words, for the memo, but please do not include more than four brief (one sentence) quotes.