POSC 20403 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Humanities, First Position, Homicide
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First position as an attorney: first job was with a management-side labor-law firm, second woman they had ever hired, wasn"t anything pleasant about the job, lots of writing, research, and being in the library. Different career path: she would have looked a law schools that would have provided her a different experience than the one she chose, she would have found methods to be in the presence of stephen bryant. Becoming a public defender: missouri has a statewide public-defender system, one of four states that allow defense lawyers to take depositions; really get to penetrate and probe and interrogate our cases. Private practice criminal defense work: public interest firm that represented primarily death-penalty people and poor people facing cases in which there is a strong belief that they are innocent, four-attorney firm. Spending time on cases: lots of meetings, assemble a competent team including lawyers, mitigation investigators, investigators, and experts.
