{"id":1330,"date":"2017-08-01T13:32:22","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T13:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/?p=1330"},"modified":"2017-08-01T13:32:22","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T13:32:22","slug":"moore-18-applies-skills-learned-in-the-classroom-during-internship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/2017\/08\/01\/moore-18-applies-skills-learned-in-the-classroom-during-internship\/","title":{"rendered":"Moore ’18 Applies Skills Learned in the Classroom During Internship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chandler Moore ’18 Jeffrey A. Boggess Law Clerk Intern<\/em> – This past summer \"\"<\/a>I had the esteemed opportunity to Clerk for alumnus Jeffrey Boggess \u201989.\u00a0 As someone interested in practicing the Law I found the opportunity both encouraging and motivating.\u00a0 Upon my first day of the internship I was observing a jury trial over a case regarding an attempted murder, what is more exciting than that?\u00a0 The weeks following I was prepping documents, observing mediation, and calling clients.\u00a0 The experience was so special because it took my interest of practicing the law and my experience from pre-law classes with Professor Himsel and actually put those skills and lessons to practice, what I saw was a perfect, although bumpy at times, translation of learned skills from the classroom to the law office.<\/p>\n

What I was able to experience throughout my weeks at the law office was the day to day life of a small town attorney.\u00a0 The truth I found, rather quickly, is most of the work is done out of the Courthouse and in the office.\u00a0 I would arrive to work each day with post-it notes of tasks that I was assigned, these tasks would range anywhere from looking through medical records for a Personal Injury case to prepping documents to be produced for a Guardianship hearing.\u00a0 One of my most noteworthy tasks during my internship was preparing an exhibit of screenshot text messages for an all day hearing.\u00a0 I sifted through hundreds of text messages looking for keywords, I printed out hundreds of the text messages and then stamped them so that they could be used as an exhibit.\u00a0 The next day I went to Court to observe the hearing and my work was used as a significant argument for our side.\u00a0 It was encouraging to see my work used in front of the Putnam County Judge.<\/p>\n

On top of all of my unique experiences this summer it was great to hear the stories and experiences from my boss, a fellow Wabash man, who holds his Wabash education as important and lasting today as he ever has.\u00a0 I cannot thank Wabash College, my boss, Jeff Boggess, and the Lilly Endowment Fund enough for the great opportunity I had this summer. \u00a0I would encourage any underclassmen to go out and find internships in your areas of interest and really observe the day to day practices because as I learned, any experience at all is absolutely priceless and so important for your development as a student and a man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chandler Moore ’18 Jeffrey A. Boggess Law Clerk Intern – This past summer I had the esteemed opportunity to Clerk for alumnus Jeffrey Boggess \u201989.\u00a0 As someone interested in practicing the Law […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-1330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-summer-internships","tag-lilly-endowment"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1330"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1332,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions\/1332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}