Summer Mentorship Component

1. Mentorship Log of Hours: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1U_OnaYKV1C6vbmrtCa3HbKSmOO4ivYhlLfK9tLICoSo/edit#gid=0 

2. What is the contact name & number of where you volunteered?       

    -Joseph Kang; (626) 813-3460

3.  What questions were raised because of the 10 hours of experience?  List them.     

      -Do I want to be a Public Defender?

      -Why do the Public Defenders have to be appointed to a case before they help?

      -Is it actually helpful to go over a case with a client only moments before they go to court?

      - Is criminal law more interesting to me than business law? What are the differences?

4. What is the most important thing you gained from this experience? Why?

     -From my experience working at the Public Defender's office, the most important thing I learned is the time management of working from Monday through Thursday with a stable set of hours and tasks to accomplish. It also gave me a sense of how “adult life” is because I got to watch the lawyers and clerks throughout their days. I think that time management is the most important thing I learned because in the future I would like to be a lawyer, and I did not really know how the working lifestyle would be for them. In the process of volunteering I got to see the workload and how fast they go through cases and how to prioritize.

5. What is your senior project topic going to be?  How did what you did help you choose a topic?  Please explain.

      -My senior project topic is going to be Criminal Law because I volunteered at the West Covina Courthouse and all of the cases there involve Criminal Law and it's boundaries and uses. I decided to focus on the law itself as opposed to the public defender because in the future I do not want to become a Public Defender but Criminal Law is still intriguing.