SLIP 23 Interns Attend Atlanta Bar Association 50th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act

Some our 2015 Interns were privileged  to attend an event on August 10, 2015, at Emory Law School celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act .  They are photographed here with civil rights icon  Congressman John Lewis and  2015-2016 Atlanta Bar Association President Harold Franklin.

Farewell SLIP 23

It has been a great summer!  You have been an exceptional class.  We are expecting great things from you!

Click HERE for the SLIP 23 Farewell Video

Here are some of our favorite pics:

Finish Strong

We are in the middle of our final week.  The end is in sight.  Be sure to thank the people who have opened their doors to you.  Be sure to tie up loose ends.  You do not want to leave things undone and said.

See you on Wednesday!

Tasha

Enrichment Due July 15

Name:                                                              

2015 ATLANTA BAR ASSOCIATION

SUMMER LAW INTERNSHIP PROGRAM

ENRICHMENT FOR JULY 15, 2015

1. Please identify someone who currently holds a position which you would consider your dream job 10 or more years from now.  Tell us the person's name and provide biographical and background information.  How did that person get where he or she is today?  (No less than 100 words.)
   
   
2. What is the World Justice Project?  What is its goal?
   
   
3. What legal issues does a Probate Court handle?
   
   
4. What is a product liability case?  What issues are involved in such a case?  (No less than 75 words.)
   
   
5. Please describe and differentiate under Georgia law (1) compensatory damages and (2) punitive damages.
   
   
6. What was Thurgood Marshall's record as an advocate in the United States Supreme Court?

You are required to do your work on your own.  At the bottom of each of your assignments during the 2015 summer internship program, please write the following:

I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT I DID NOT RECEIVE ASSISTANCE IN COMPLETING THIS WORK AND DID THE WORK BY MYSELF.

Signed:                                                                                    Date:                                                  

Print Name:                                                                                                                                        

Intern Host:                                                                             Supervisor:                                         

High School:                                                     Grade just completed:                                              

If graduated from High School, college you will be attending:                                                         

Enrichment Due July 8

2015 ATLANTA BAR ASSOCIATION

SUMMER LAW INTERNSHIP PROGRAM

ENRICHMENT FOR JULY 8, 2015

1. What is a 401(K) Plan?  What are the benefits of participating as early as possible a 401(K) Plan?  Who is eligible to participate in a 401(K) Plan?
2. What is the Social Security Program?  How does one participate in the Social Security Program? What is the earliest one can draw from the Social Security Program?  What are the benefits to waiting to draw from the Social Security Program?
3. What qualifications/attributes must a person have to be elected President of the United States?
4. Within the Federal Court system, what is the difference between a District Court Judge and a Court of Appeals Judge?  (No less than 50 words.)
5. What is a Limited Liability Company (LLC)? What are the benefits of organizing an LLC?
6. What is significant about the lives of Marva Collins, Jaime Escalante and JoAnn Leleck? What was their guiding principle? What would they not brook? (No less than 125 words combined.)

You are required to do your work on your own.  At the bottom of each of your assignments during the 2015 summer internship program, please write the following:

I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT I DID NOT RECEIVE ASSISTANCE IN COMPLETING THIS WORK AND DID THE WORK BY MYSELF.

Signed:                                                                         Date:                                             

Print Name:                                                                                                                        

Intern Host:                                                                  Supervisor:                                    

High School:                                                     Grade just completed:                              

If graduated from High School, college you will be attending:                                         

SLIP Weekly Meeting Location Update

Enrichment Due June 24, 2015

2015 ATLANTA BAR ASSOCIATION

SUMMER LAW INTERNSHIP PROGRAM

ENRICHMENT FOR JUNE 24, 2015

1.                  Whom do you view as the three most important figures in United States history (living or deceased)?  Why?  (No less than 100 words total - not per person).

2.                  What are the various types of life insurance policies and how are they different?

3.                   Who is Terrence Croft and what role did he have in the Atlanta Bar Association Summer Law Internship Program?  What roles has he played in the Atlanta Bar Association/Atlanta Bar Foundation? 

4.                   What did the United States Supreme Court hold in Morse v. Frederick, 551 U.S. 393 (2007)?  Do you agree or disagree?  (No less than 100 words.)

5.                  What is the most important principle in the law?  Why?  (No less than 50 words.)

6.                  Please set forth the title of the prosecutor for the following types of cases:

a.       State Misdemeanors;

b.      State Felonies;

c.       Federal Felonies and Misdemeanors.

7.                   Please list the Solicitors for Fulton County, DeKalb County, Clayton County and who is interning with these offices.

8.                   Please list the head public defender for the same counties and who is interning with each office.

You are required to do your work on your own.  At the bottom of each of your assignments during the 2015 summer internship program, please write the following:

I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT I DID NOT RECEIVE ASSISTANCE IN COMPLETING THIS WORK AND DID THE WORK BY MYSELF.

Signed:                                                                                    Date:                                                  

Print Name:                                                                                                                                        

Intern Host:                                                                             Supervisor:                                         

High School:                                                     Grade just completed:                                              

If graduated from High School, college you will be attending:                                                         

The Kickoff Breakfast is Tomorrow

1201 West Peachtree Street

Keep those photos coming!

Orientation Number Four - Great Meeting - Soon the Work Begins

Enrichment Due June 18, 2015

2015 ATLANTA BAR ASSOCIATION

SUMMER LAW INTERNSHIP PROGRAM

 

ENRICHMENT FOR JUNE 18, 2015

 

1.                  Please provide us with a brief description about your mentor's background, education and experience.

2.                  List the current nine United States Supreme Court Justices, where they went to college and law school, and what President appointed them.

3.                  Who is serving as the President of the State Bar of Georgia for the year 2014-2015?
What is his/her background? 

4.                  What role does a General Counsel perform for a company?  (No less than 50 words)

5.                  What are the five words a lawyer announces to the Judge(s) prior to making her argument?

6.                  What has been the most interesting thing about your first week of your internship?  Why?  (No less than 50 words)

You are required to do your work on your own.  At the bottom of each of your assignments during the 2015 summer internship program, please write the following:

 

 

I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT I DID NOT RECEIVE ASSISTANCE IN COMPLETING THIS WORK AND DID THE WORK BY MYSELF.

 

 

Signed:                                                                   Date:                                        

Print Name:                                                                                                            

High School:                                          Grade just completed:                                    

If graduated from High School, college you will be attending:                                             

Enrichment Due June 12, 2015

2015 ATLANTA BAR ASSOCIATION

SUMMER LAW INTERNSHIP PROGRAM

ENRICHMENT FOR JUNE 12, 2015

1.                  In the many interviews you will do in the coming years you will occasionally be asked the following simple question:  "Please tell me about yourself."  Using no less than 100 words, please prepare in writing an answer to that question and also be prepared to give it extemporaneously at one of our meetings.

2.                  What are the elements of the criminal act of racketeering?

3.                  What is the Magistrate Court of Fulton County?  What is its jurisdiction?

4.                  When a Court enters a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) what does that signify?  What must the party seeking a TRO prove to the Court to have one entered?  What type of judge can enter a TRO?

5.                  What is a deposition?

6.                  What is the fitness requirement to be a member of the State Bar of Georgia?  What types of issues prevent a prospective member of the State Bar of Georgia from satisfying the Bar's fitness requirement?

You are required to do your work on your own.  At the bottom of each of your assignments during the 2015 summer internship program, please write the following:

I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT I DID NOT RECEIVE ASSISTANCE IN COMPLETING THIS WORK AND DID THE WORK BY MYSELF.

Signed:                                                                                    Date:                                                  

Print Name:                                                                                                                                        

High School:                                                     Grade just completed:                                              

If graduated from High School, college you will be attending:                                                         

A great looking group! I love this photo.

Speaker Contact Information 6/8/2015

Greetings interns,

The contact information for our speaker yesterday is:

Cheryl Turner, Esq.
77 Hammock Place
Atlanta, GA 30312
cherylturneresq@gmail.com

Be sure to bring two copies of your Thank You letter on Friday - one to mail and one for your records.  Also, do not forget your envelope.  You do not need to include a stamp.

I understand that handwritten letters are a dying art so many of you have never filled out an envelope.  This is how it should look:

Send me your pics!

Hi Interns:

Thanks to those of you who have already sent me pictures.  I have created an email address that will be specifically for SLIP 23 pictures.   Please send your pictures to SLIP23pics@gmail.com.

Make sure you send them at maximum resolution too.

Thanks!

Enrichment Due June 8, 2015

2015 ATLANTA BAR ASSOCIATION

SUMMER LAW INTERNSHIP PROGRAM

 

ENRICHMENT FOR JUNE 8, 2015

 

1.      What freedoms does the Sixth Amendment protect?  Which of these in your opinion is most important?

 

2.      What is a flat fee arrangement between a client and its lawyer?

 

3.      What is your dream job?  Why?  How do you plan to go about landing it?  (No less than 50 words.)

 

4.      What colleges and law schools did your coordinators attend?

 

5.      Who is Sally Quillian Yates?  What position does she hold?  What is important about her position? 

 

6.      Please detail what the Atlanta Legal Aid Society does.  (No less than 50 words.)

 

7.      What are the average grades and LSAT scores to get into the University of Georgia law school? 

 

8.      Who was the 96^th President of The Atlanta Bar Association?

 

 

You are required to do your work on your own.  At the bottom of each of your assignments during the 2015 summer internship program, please write the following:

 

I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT I DID NOT RECEIVE ASSISTANCE IN COMPLETING THIS WORK AND DID THE WORK BY MYSELF.

 

 

Signed:                                                                Date:                              

Print Name:                                                                                               

High School:                                                Grade just completed:                 

If graduated from High School, college you will be attending:                               

Enrichment Due June 5

2015 ATLANTA BAR ASSOCIATION

SUMMER LAW INTERNSHIP PROGRAM

 

ENRICHMENT FOR JUNE 5, 2015

 

 

1.                   Please explain the meaning of the statement: The difference between great and no-so-great is often as simple as communication, follow-up and follow-through.

2.                  Please provide us with a brief synopsis of your interest in the legal field if you are considering a career in law, including any particular areas of interest that you have.

3.                  Please explain the differences between these standards of proof and identify the situations (case scenarios) in which they apply.

a.       Preponderance of the evidence standard.

b.      Clear and convincing evidence standard.

c.       Beyond a reasonable doubt standard.

4.                  Who is the current United States Attorney General?  Please list the highlights of his/her background.

5.                  What is the Electoral College and what role does it have in the election of the President of the United States of America?

 

You are required to do your work on your own.  At the bottom of each of your assignments during the 2015 summer internship program, please write the following:

 

I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT I DID NOT RECEIVE ASSISTANCE IN COMPLETING THIS WORK AND DID THE WORK BY MYSELF.

 

 

 

Signed:                                                                Date:                              

Print Name:                                                                                               

High School:                                                Grade just completed:                 

If graduated from High School, college you will be attending:                               

Dress for the Career You Want, Not the One You Have.

After our meeting today, I saw this article in the Huffington Post.  It is worth reading.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/r-kay-green/career-future-advice_b_2583884.html

Great Meeting Today - See you tomorrow at the State Bar of Georgia at noon.

Corrected June 2015 Calendar