back to work

Tomorrow my eleven month vacation from work ends. I know that 1L year is not usually considered vacation, but now, sitting in the face of a 9:00 am start time and (horrors) pregnancy pantyhose, it feels like I've been on a vacation.

Not that I'm not excited about work. I am very excited about it. This is my first foray into the outside legal world, the world in which people get paid for their legal knowledge rather than paying to acquire it. I can't wait to see how it all functions.

I don't know how much blogging I am going to do about my summer work. Probably it won't be a lot.

However, here is the high level plan. My summer work is in two distinct phases. Part One: Adventures in the Judiciary, begins tomorrow. I have a six week externship for a state appellate court judge. Part Two: The Summer Associate begins in July. I will work until late August for a law firm. I will start in their IP group but the firm is a large firm and summer associates move around to multiple areas, so I may not do all my work there. I would be happy either way; IP law is fascinating but exposure to other areas would be interesting too.