Well, that's that. This week I accepted a position clerking for Justice Burke of the Wyoming Supreme Court. It's at least a two-year position. That means I'll be moving to Cheyenne in less than a year. I'm excited about the experience. It's a chance to learn so much about writing very quickly, and that's experience I really want and need. I consider myself a decent writer as a law student, but I realize I'm still on my shaky baby legs when it comes to the legal world as a whole.The job isn't in the Pacific Northwest, where I've wanted to live for a while, but I don't mind that considering the experience I'll be getting. In any case, it will give me time to take the Washington or Oregon bar so that it will be easier for me to get a job out there if that's what I'd like to do.
And that's the last you'll really hear about my new job. Naturally, I would be pretty reluctant to talk about any job, but this one even moreso. Not everyone may know this, but clerks are bound by the same code of conduct as their judges, so if there's anything you can't imagine a judge doing, it's the same for me. I'm sure the blog will change, too, but I don't yet know how just yet.
Just speculating, my commentary on a lot of things may be curtailed. Perhaps I'll change the blog's focus a bit, probably to make it more substantive, but away from what I usually write about right now. I'm toying with the idea of turning it into sort of a legal information commentary thing. I like the idea of posts designed to educate a general audience about how the legal system works overall and applying that to things in the news. Something that would be more education than commentary. But I'm not sure that would look like.
So what do you think? You're my readers (both of you), so what would you like to see? There's plenty of time to figure it out--I have months, at least.
What I'm Reading (still):
The Autobiography of Mark Twain (Perennial Classics) by Charles Neider
Have a great weekend!
That's terrific!!! Congrats!