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Thursday, October 20, 2011

Student Legal Services (UMASS); Amherst, MA

My job responsibilities were sitting in on client meetings with attorneys to take notes, scheduling appointments with the caseload of clients, and filling in for receptionists roughly 2-3 hours per week. Throughout the course of my internship there were no real changes in my duties.

I would rate this internship as very good overall.

I would recommend this site to other students because it was a great opportunity to learn a lot about the law in a career format that caters to students that have very little exposure to the law from previous experiences.

If I could change something about my internship I would have liked to have written more demand letters or I would have liked to have gone to court with my clients.

My advice to students looking for a field experience placement would be to do your best and treat every aspect as a learning experience and also realize that coworkers are a potential professional contact.

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