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This is my last day working as a law clerk. It’s been a year and three weeks. Strangely, one of the most significant things I’ve done in this office is blog. Yep, this is the room where it all started. This room, pathetically, is where I’ve done most of my blogging. At this very computer. Don’t tell!

That reminds me, I’ve got to remove all my personal documents and cookies and Internet bookmarks from this machine.

Anyway, no longer will I have to have the following conversation:

Random person: So what does a law clerk do?

Me: Oh, basically I work for a court system, doing legal research and writing legal memos for judges, usually about 10-15 pages long, giving an opinion on how a particular case should be decided or sometimes just a particular issue within a case.

Random person: Oh, are you thinking of going to law school?

Me: (holding back a grimace and smiling politely)

No longer will people think, after I explain what I do, that I’m working as a law clerk because I’m thinking of going to law school. No longer will people think I’m waiting to take the bar exam. No longer will people give me a blank stare or ask me to repeat myself because “law clerk” has too many consonants and doesn’t sound like English when you say it really fast.

Instead, two weeks from now, when people ask me what I do, I’ll be able to tell them:

“I’m a lawyer.”

Oh, crap.
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