If any of my ex-law students, just now starting your respective LLM programs, are still reading the blog, I think you will be interested in this eye-opening and well written description of a typical day for attorney Krista M. Larsen, a public defender in the Chelsea Trial Court:
“The first order of business for Larsen, a 30-year-old graduate of Northeastern University and Suffolk Law School, is wrapping up a trial that began the day before. Larsen’s client, a 55-year-old unemployed produce worker, stands accused of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, the weapon in this case being a bottle of bleach. Larsen has been assigned the case by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, for which she is being paid $30 an hour. Final arguments to the jury are scheduled for 9:30.”