is in 15 days!   WooHoo!

I am excited about it.  I’m just about done.   Done except for the act of walking at the ceremony and getting my diploma.

The crazy thing?  I keep forgetting about it.  I’m at work 4-5 days a week, and putting in many hours.  I love what I’m doing, what I’m learning, and I keep forgetting that I’m actually DONE with school.

The firm I work for is going to allow me to take all the time off I need when I start to prepare for the bar exam.  I take the bar in February.  I will officially be an attorney by April or May!

And I have a job!  That is amazing in and of itself.  I know of many people who have already graduated, taken the bar, and even passed the bar that cannot get a job in Michigan.  My job when I pass the bar is not in Michigan, but it is in Michigan until then.

The firm I work for is opening another office in Florida.  A couple of months ago I was asked if I would want to go down there and open the office.  It will be me and the current office manager.  He will be down there with me for at least the first year or so.

Right now I’m learning all I can.  I’m in court several times a week, I work on many different cases, and do alot of research.  Thats one thing I didn’t realize is that there is research to do for almost any case.

Perfect example is a case I just started this past week.  It was a VAWA case (Violence Against Women Act), and I was told it was a VAWA case.  I started work on it.  At first glance, it was a perfect fit for the client to adjust status under this statute.  But, not so much.  There was one requirement of the statute that she didn’t meet.  I figured that had to be some way for her to adjust under another law.  More research (I had to figure out what the heck VAWA even was before I started to see what to do for her).  Then I came upon an U visa.  I needed to figure out what that was- I had never heard of it- and see if it could apply to her.  It did, somewhat.  I can make it apply through children, then she would be a derivative of the child’s application, as well as the child’s siblings.

Being able to figure out how to help someone in this way makes it all worth it.  I really do love what I do.  I actually enjoy going to work every morning- even when its at 7 a.m.