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Working in a law firm for just a few days has helped me understand everything that has to be juggled simultaneously. Almost all of the tasks I have worked on have dealt with informing others, getting information from others, or organizing information. I have faxed fire departments, called clients, and emailed lawyers. Everything needs to be carefully scheduled because once you contact someone for a certain client, you then have to move on to another client which makes it very easy to forget to follow up with the first person. So, there is a to-do list for each client in the system that has dates for reaching out for getting a form or records back, or to make sure that a client submits certain documents.

 

The methods of communication are not what I expected. I thought I would be sending a lot of incredibly detailed emails to other lawyers and clients, but almost all communication has been done through phone calls and faxes. I didn’t think that fax machines really existed anymore, god forbid used. But in order to get documents to sign and different authorizations I have had to learn how to send faxes. It’s really interesting to see how modern technology plays a role in faxing. I have to print a document, mark it up how it needs to be, scan it back into a pdf, then put the pdf in an email that is sent to a fax machine to be printed somewhere else. Not only sending a fax, but sending a fax through an email feels so strange. I also call people more often than I thought I would because it's necessary to get people to act quickly if it all. There isn’t time to send an email, wait days for a response, then realize there was a miscommunication so now we have to find a new thing. If there is a miscommunication or slight delay I have to call someone about it. 





Sitting at my desk. 



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