Where is law going today?

By Bri D.

My essential question was where is law going today? We have the constitution that states our individual rights, however, law places restrictions on your rights so how can we keep laws and our rights? However I didn’t really get that question answered so the only other question I can think of asking would be “how do I become a lawyer?”

My JUA experience was fun and I learned a little bit. We got to talk with lawyers such as Erika Holmes at Brown Rudnick an amazing law fern. Erika was a graduate of New Hampton in 1996. And she now works at Brown Rudnick. It was pretty much like a house, I wouldn’t mind working later and staying over there. I really enjoyed talking to her she was a normal person, she helped me out a lot with what exactly a lawyer does and I liked seeing a real life law fern, I would love to live in Boston and work in a law firm like that one. I like seeing how law firms worked and knowing just who was in charge of what laws. Then our group went to a real life trial! At first I wasn’t that excited but then when we started to walk in I was like oh my good I’m going in a courthouse wow! And then when we were in there I was like ok I’m watching a murder trial. For the first 45min it was ok I listen and got into it I knew what was going on, but then I feel asleep for about 20min but I was up long enough to know that the guy on trial was pretty much guilty or at least seemed it, he keep changing his story, and you could tell he was lying. The next day we went to watch another trial. When we got then we were going to watch the rape trial but they weren’t starting that until tomorrow so we ended up going to watch an armed robbery trial instead. It was so boring, first of all Nick got yelled at because the judge got mad at him for eating a candy inside the room and people keep giving us mean looks so after about an hour we left and went to Boston City Hall where we talked to Bill Sinnott and about nine other lawyers. They just keep coming in I was like wow nine real lawyer, I have only met one layer my whole life and that is my dads friend. So it was pretty cool to be sitting in a room with nine different ones. I liked going to the Boston City Hall because I found out who makes the laws and why they make them and we got inside information about some new laws they are trying to make election day more than one day so more people will vote. I found out that if I want to become a divorce layer I have a lot of work I need to do and a lot of different fields I need to study. But I also want to be a sexual defense layer, which has a lot or work too. But it is my dream to become a lawyer and I will work very hard in becoming one.