Public Defense

There are A LOT of law students that apply for these slave positions in our office, and we're usually only able to take in 5 to 6 law clerks. Most of these nice folks are people whose only hope is to work in a PD office representing the indigent. They don't want glamor, they don't want fame, they want to work for the people. These are my kind of people.

For the most part, I like many of these law clerks and go out of my way to help them out when needed and explain how we (investigators) might be able to help them out on certain cases. I even help out the law clerks who just want courtroom experience and can't stand our clients or our office mainly because they weren't able to get in with the District Attorney's office. I don't help them out as much, mainly because they're usually condescending assholes.

Yeah that's right, I said it. Assholes.

Bar results came out a few weeks ago and two of the law clerks who busted their asses and stressed out for weeks after taking the bar...disappeared. These were two of the potential True Believers. They took off for local watering holes on the Friday afternoon that results came out to pound down a few margaritas and beers with friends and co-workers...and were never seen again.

On Monday morning, any sign that they existed in our offices were wiped away. From somewhere , up wherever management make their decisions, they received a phone call that said, "The shit in your desk is in a box, come in early Monday and take it away because we don't need you around anymore." Or something like that.

I understand that this is a weeding out process, but do you need to even wonder who successfully passed the bar? Yup. The people who don't give a shit about our clients and will quit in a couple of years after they've got plenty of trial experience under their belt.

There has to be a better way to keep the true believers because this is how we end up with an office full of assholes.