Law Application Essay Examples
For the summer of 2017, I had the opportunity to work for the San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program (SDVLP) under their Family Law Division. Much of the duties I initially expected to assist with included researching and writing tasks mostly limited to Domestic Violence Restraining Orders and Child Custody and Visitation. I was glad to find out that I would have the chance to get exposed to a wide variety of different tasks. These tasks included initiating client intakes, observing court proceedings, and assisting with three different clinics that SDVLP organizes. I also had a chance to assist with cases involving dissolution of marriage, annulments, and immigration law. This breadth of experience and exposure to different types of law has...show more content...
Every first and fourth thursday of the month, I participated in the Vision for Justice Collaborative (VJC) clinic in El Cajon. This clinic is limited to refugees who are victims of a crime. We assist these individuals on any Family Law issue they may have. Often, these issues were limited to dissolution or domestic violence, but because of issues of international service of process, these cases would involve complex matters of civil procedure. Many of the clients were born in the middle east and spoke mostly arabic, so I often had a chance to see the interaction between the staff attorney and an arabic translator as well as the client. As USD Law has recently implemented a new first year course for experiential work that allowed students to conduct client interviews and a deposition, I had a small baseline of experience in conducting practical client interactions. This helped me for my task in researching Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) and conducting an interview of two minor children to help prepare a declaration to support an evidentiary finding of abuse, abandonment, and/or neglect by a parent. A fellow intern and I were tasked with drafting interview questions which would be revised by a staff attorney. In the revision process, we saw how to frame questions in a better way to ensure the most productive interview. We had to utilize a translator and conduct the interview of these two
The basic idea for a law can originate from an array of places ranging from a concerned citizen to the President. In order for a bill to become a law it must begin in either the House or the Senate and can only be introduced by a member of Congress (Schwalbe, 2014). In order for a bill to have a chance at becoming a law it must go through various different stages which include committee consideration, floor debate(by House and Senate), conference committees, and then if both houses pass the bill it is then sent to the president to either be signed and become a law or vetoed. When the president gets the bill he actually has up to five options on what to do with it. (Schwalbe, 2014). He can pass it as a law by both dating and signing it...show more content...
Another example of how bills and laws work is shown with the Student Loan Fairness Act of 2013(H.R. 1330). Authored by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D–Mass) and sponsored by Representative Karen Bass (CA–37), if this bill is signed into a law it would dramatically lower the interest rates on federal student loans (Kingkade, 2013). Warren's plan is to have the percentage rate on government issued student loans lower from 6.8 percent to .75 percent (Kingkade, 2013). When looking at the details of H.R. 1330, you can see the timeline of events that has happened since the bill was introduced in 2013. The details show that Hon. Karen Bass introduced the bill to the House Education and the Workforce, House Financial Services, House Ways and Means, and then the bill was referred to the subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training. (Committee Action, Schwalbe, 2014). As of April 2013, the bill has gained up to 51 different cosponsors however it is still under review by committee and awaiting further action or until the committees are ready to send it to the floor for debate. If this bill did become a law it would help college students with the debt they incur while obtaining higher education. Some people say that bills take too long to pass and looking at H.R. 1330 one can see why most Americans feel this way. (No action since April 2013) The wait time and the
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QUESTION 1. Issues of this case: Could the offer acceptence by e–mail be capable of creating contractual relationships? Was there a breach of cotract? The matter of the case is regulated by Contract Law. Contractual nature A contract can be difened as "an agreement containing promises made between two or more parties with the intention of creating certain legal rights and obligations and enfoufceable in a court of law". (Andy & Douglas, 2013, p.307). Though every contract involves an agreement, not every agreement is legally forceable and will result in contract. It is necessary to find out weather the agreement between parties was inteded to be regarded by the law as valid and enfoceable (a contract) or just an agreement and not enforceable. Definition also says that angreement first of all is a promise or commitment that something will or not will happen in the fututre. However, to be a contract a promise must have a cantractual nature and therefore a promosor must have legal liability. In the given case David (offeree) accepts offer via e–mail which was not legally recorded or officially sealed unless Charlie (offeror) and David had agreed to communicate electronically. Thus, may only be (hypothetically) a simple contract. A simle contract must contain 3 constituents:
1.There must be an agreement between parties. In other words, there must be a offer and acceptance. Charlie offers to sell his car to David, so it can be an offer. David decides to buy Charlie`s car and
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Perhaps one of the most difficult aspects of the practice of law is learning to be a lawyer. Virtually every new lawyer today is a graduate of law school, a much dreaded, but fulfilling journey to practicing law. Modern law schools differ greatly from their earlier counterpart, in that many more requirements and responsibilities exist. In colonial times, students pursuing a career in law would enter institutions for instruction of the law, and would automatically become qualified to practice law in the courts after a few years of study. Today, however, becoming a lawyer takes much more training, rigorous work and effort, and many years of studying in order to take a bar exam of which passage represents qualification....show more content... These sections include logical reasoning, analytical reasoning, reading comprehension, a writing sample, and an experimental section, which does not count toward the final score of the law school applicant. The writing sample is not scored either, but it is sent to every law school to which an aspiring law student applies. Law schools usually do not use it as a significant part of the admissions process. Admission requirements of prestigious schools in the United States differ greatly with those of the less prominent. As written by the Dean of Admissions at Stanford Law School: "Admission to Stanford Law School is based primarily upon superior academic achievement and potential to contribute to the development and practice of the law. Competition is severe: the 178 members of the Class of 2002 were selected from among 4,000 applicants, and most were drawn from the upper 5 percent of their undergraduate class and the upper 5 percent of the LSAT pool. The class that entered in 1999 numbered 93 women and 85 men, over half of whom had been out of college for two or more years." In contrast, other less–prominent law schools around the nation do not present nearly as strict requirements for applicants. In evaluating individual files, the faculty of any law school considers the record of both undergraduate and graduate education, and the applicant's talents, nonacademic experience, and
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When we think of what it means to be white in today's society, it seems so obvious in our modern eyes of who is white and who is not. Usually we have the mentality in racial aspects of either one person is this or not. What influences our way of differentiating from one person to another is what we were taught in life and from school. In Ian Haney Lopez, White By Law, Lopez discusses how the terms "black" and "white" were not natural categories that were simply there from the very beginning of time. But instead were terms that were created in part under the social construction of the law. He gives a great example of this, by quoting a work from A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.'s classic study, In the Matter of Color:Race and the American legal process: The Colonial Period (1978) and Derrick Bell's Casebook, Race, Racism, and American Law. He noted how in both books the authors would treat the terms of "blacks" and "negroes" as natural categories. For instance Higginbotham's book mentions how, "In 1619, when these first twenty blacks arrived in Jamestown, there was not yet a statutory process to especially fix the legal of blacks". Just like Bell labeling the Africans that came to Jamestown as "Negroes".
Lopez criticizes both authors on how they fell prey to the assumption that "blacks" and negroes" were racial terms naturally existed back then. Which is not the case for back in the 1600's, African and Europeans did not see themselves as "whites" or "blacks", it wasn't until
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Upon entering this class, I had a skeptical mind on what law was. We believed law as a superior, overpowering, and controlling way of life. We had negative thoughts towards the law, and only expected negative results because of it. While being in this class this semester, my mind was opened and because of it I allowed a better understanding of law into my lifestyle. I realized that what I say may have repercussions as well as negatively damage my business. Some of the BLAW subjects that will help me to grow in my career as well as an everyday consumer I will discuss throughout this assignment. As a Sophomore in college, we are still considered the "newbies" of the University. Some of us are still trying to find our groove, while others are excelling at it. So being a Sophomore in this BLAW class, helped me realize that every course that I am taking is to better me for my career. I believe that BLAW is highly important when majoring in a business degree, simply because in our line of work it's common for us to be consumed by greed or make minor judgment mistakes to better the company that we're working for. BLAW creates this building block for you and how you must go about your work life to fully succeed. My future career includes hopefully becoming an officer in the United States Air Force, with my background as Business Major I hope to either become a Logistics Readiness Officer or a Contracting Officer. Both Air Force careers deal with the business franchise of the United Get
I envision my dream job being a lawyer for many reasons. I would like to be a lawyer because I like to argue my point and look for evidence. For example, I get really competitive when I debate with my brothers about politics and logic. It is really fun for me to back up my topics with logic and facts. I like the feeling I get when I already know what I am going to say and I have the facts and logic to prove it. I would also like to be a lawyer because I get to help my clients' cases. Additionally, I love thinking critically and using clues to come to a conclusion. Ever since I was a little kid, I loved thinking about things in a critical and/or different way. I also loved the idea of being a detective that would look for clues. I even read stories and watched shows where the detective would come to a conclusion and back it up with facts. I really loved how the detective would blow everyone away with the evidence he found. I also loved when the detective would think in different ways about the clues and retrace his steps if he came to a false conclusion. I picture myself to be a lawyer because lawyers argue and support their point, help their clients, and think critically. I will become a lawyer by following many procedures. One of which will be to ask questions to role models and other lawyers about how they got to where they are now. For example, I could choose to follow in Phil Beck's footsteps and observe how he does things. It is always nice to have a role model because Get
Obeying by the natural law theory is the only true and moral way to live life; especially a life lived in God's image. God's presence is a guiding factor to obtaining a moral and virtuous life, which can only be obtained by following the natural law theory. God created a set of laws as a supreme guide for humans to live life, like any law these laws were created to ensure wellbeing for everyone. The laws he created are the civil law, the natural law and thedivine law God created them from a law much superior than the rest, one which only God himself has the knowledge of, the eternal law. Humans actively participate in the eternal law of God by using reason in conformity with the Natural Law to discern what is good and evil(Magee 1). Of...show more content...
Whatever is in motion now was at rest until moved by something else, and that by something else, and so on. But if there were an infinite series of movers, all waiting to be moved by something else, then actual motion could never have got started, and there would be no motion now. But there is motion now. So there must be a First Mover which is itself unmoved. This First Mover we call God (Archon 1).
The final crucial proof of the existence of God is Aquinas fourth proof. This proof looks at qualities of humans; all humans possess many different attributes which we consider unique to each individual. This is when standards are formed humans began to have a certain criteria for how or what someone with a given attribute should act or how they should portray themselves. The only way this standard could come into existence is to believe that there is a perfect creation possessing all qualities and expressing them in the most precise and perfect way. This perfect creation is God, the person in which humans get the laws at which the obeyed by. Aquinas five proofs of the existence of God are much more extensive but just looking at the proof of motion and the proof of perfection it becomes unquestionable that there is an almighty creation. This superior creation creates laws at which
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Before the A–S–3900 class started I had absolutely no clue about law school I just knew I wanted to be a lawyer. So far, this semester I have learned that law school is hard to gain acceptance. I wasn't aware that the LSAT isn't based on your knowledge of the law. I've researched the law schools I want to attend and their requirements, I will not let my fear stop me from being a lawyer. I also had the opportunity to take a practice exam, which helped me figure out what areas I need to study before taking the actual test. A lot of the presenters were awesome, and the Michigan state presentation changed my perspective on law school, the presenter made it seem like law school is an amazing place to be and anyone can make it. Although I fear of a lot of debt and failure, I'm going to still pursue the career of a defense attorney.
I had no clue of what I was going to be learning this semester, but I had a clue of what I wanted to learn. I thought this class was about having mock law classes and debates, but I'm happy that it wasn't because I was able to learn so many new and important things this semester. I have a different perspective of law school after taking this course. While taking this course I learned how hard and important law school stands. Something that still stands out in law school is the student's age range from 21+, I appreciate the diversity that is offered. Another thing that stood out was a lot of other students didn't like this course, but it's effective, it will help you decide whether youwant to go to law school. Making the decision to go to law school is difficult and important, especially when it comes to the levies you have in order to apply for law school. Honestly, before this course, I had never thought about why I wanted to go to law school or what pushed me into wanting this career, but when I did, it made me think more about if I actually really want to go to law school. Since this course has started, I felt like I was out of place and I didn't want to attend law school anymore. Although I shouldn't base my opinion on what others have encountered, I did. I heard law school was too difficult for me to take on, but now I have done some thinking and I believe I should at least try to
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We experience each of Sir Isaac Newton's laws everyday. In a car, pushing a car, or even in a fight. All of these laws have to do with motion. You can experience the first law in a stopping car, the second when you are a pushing a shopping cart, and the third one in the water.
Newton's first law in laymen terms is 'An object in motion tends to stay in motion, and an object at rest tends to stay at rest, unless the object is acted upon by an outside force.' You would feel the law if you were in a fast moving car, lets say 70 mph, which suddenly comes to a stop. You would continue to move forward (If you didn?t have a seat belt on) but the car would come to a stop. You would then continue to move through the air at 70 mph until you hit...show more content...
The impact would hurt very much because of Newton?s Third law, which I will explain later.
Newton?s second law can be explained with the equation, A=F/M or F=MA, where A=Acceleration, F=Force, and M=Mass. In normal words, Acceleration is produced when a force acts on a mass. The greater the mass (of the object being accelerated) the greater the amount of force needed (to accelerate the object). You can use this formula to see how much force is needed to move certain objects. Lets say Mike?s car is about 1,000 kg. He pushes it at .06 m/s/s. The equation would be F=1,000(.05). The answer is F=50 Newtons (the SI unit for Force). If Bob is trying to move a van, which was about 2,000 kg at the same acceleration, then he would need to use twice the force that Mike had to because Bob?s car is 2,000 kg and Mike?s is 1,000 kg.
Newton?s third law says that every action has an equal and opposite re–action. These are two separate forces, which act upon two separate objects, and so they do not cancel each other out. If you punch someone?s face, not only does your hand apply force to the victim?s face, but also the victim?s face applies a force on your hand. Therefore, your hand hurts and so does the victim?s face but since the face is softer than the hand, it will hurt more. If you push a van with roller blades on with 100 Newtons, you will be pushing the van at 100 N and the van will be pushing you at 100 N. In a second, bob will have moved 2 m and the
Why study law? I think law is a course where you can practice practical skills and gain other skills too. Law is human rights; it is solving people's problems and getting to know what people go through. Firstly I want to study law because of the injustices that still exist in the world we are in and it bothers me a lot. I want to be the one that can change it. I want to be the one that will help people and get them justice. I want to the society to be equal and I want to fight for some human rights. I want to be a lawyer or an investigator in crime scenes because I love solving problems which are between two people and think about which option is the best to set and go for. I am a good listener and I like taking risks. I want to be...show more content...
I think studying abroad makes you gain some self confidence and know how to handle responsibilities by yourself. I will be able to rebuild my life from scratch. I will get to meet different people who lead to different cultures and I will meet an entirely new culture. I will get to ask the friends I will make about how is law back in their countries. How does their law differ from ours? I will be able to explore the world, the world that I yet didn't see. I will get to see how education is in different countries and get to experience it. Being an international student will help meet other international students and I will get to ask and see how cultures differ and what are their traditions are like. The steps I take are my future; I am the one who move my feet towards the goal I want. It is what I want to be and what I will hopefully be. There isn't anyone who could stop me from being what or who I want to become. Yes I will be alone and I will get lost a lot of times but that is part of rebuilding who I am. That'll teach me loads of things I never knew and I will learn more about
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As a body the law commission is an independent, permanent and full time organisation where their aim is to improve the law by making suggested changes and brings it up to date. The law commission was created by the law commission act of 1965. In the law commission there are five commissioners. There is one chairman/women who is a high court judge and four others which can be either legal academics and/or practicing barristers who are both trained to a high standard. There are three ways that they try to modernise the law, by codification where they bring together a particular topic to oneact of parliament. Examples of this includes Draft Criminal Code Act 1989, Murder and Homicide Act 2006 and the Coroners and Justice Act 2009. Consolidation ...show more content...
Where they will go through the same process as to the House of Commons, but, when they have done the third reading the bill will go through the consideration of amendments. This is where the house of lords makes any changes to the bill, then the bill has to go back to the house of commons so they can approve it before it goes to the queen. However, if both houses cannot come to any agreement, the house of commons will get the say, because they have more power than the house of lords. Finally, the last stage isRoyal Assent, where the crown formally assents to the bill in order for it to become a law.
Orders in council are used for a range of different reasons for example transferring obligations between government departments. The Queen and the privy council have authority to make orders in council that affect the whole country. This way it doesn't have to go through government. The privy council are a group of senior politicians. An example of this was the petrol strike in 2000. This was when there was a fast moving protest about the price of petrol and deasil, this cause a panic to the community about buying petrol from stations, so they tried to preserve fuel
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"The jury has made their decision, the plaintiff has been found guilty." These are the words that one day I will finally hear. My future goal is to be a lawyer. A lawyer is a professional person authorized to practice law. They defend or prosecute people for the crimes they have committed. (dictionary.com) I am very out spoken and believe in fighting for what I want or think is right.
Being a lawyer means that there are many responsibilities to carry out. It takes a great deal of timing and patience to finish the job,which I'm sure I can handle. Being a lawyer can be a tough job to work on. All you have to do is work as much as you can to succeed on the case. A beginning lawyer makes about $25,000–$128,000 a year. (Pasternak & Thornburg...show more content...
If you receive retirement, benefits in the form of pension or annuity payments from a qualified employer retirement plan. The amounts you receive may be fully taxable or partly taxable. (www.lawyers.com)
An aspiring lawyer must enter law school and complete a Juris doctor program. However, before applying to law school, an undergraduate degree must first be completed. In some places, a drug test is randomly completed. (www.lawyer.com) Lawyer's students set on a career in law need to continue getting good grades in their university life, and not make the error of thinking that it is only the end–of–third–year exam performance that counts. First and second–year exam results are taken into account by firms and chambers when considering applicants for work experience, as well as training contracts/pupils. (www.aboutlawschools.org) Personally this is something I wouldn't need to adjust to being growing up my mom always made sure I was on track with my school work.
Some skills are needed as stated in "The Criminal Justice Lawyer on page 1" it says "the ability to write high quality legal briefs that successfully present the client's case". A lawyer needs to have a lot of knowledge of the law and the rights of the people. They should also know how to analyze legal issues in light of the existing state of the law. (www.aboutlawschools.org) It is also important to know the road in which the law is headed, and important policy
Civil law is concerned and deals with the relationship between individuals and relates to civil rather than criminal wrongs with the aim of compensating the suing party for such wrongs (Gibson, Rigby, Ryan & Tamsitt, 2001, p28.1). A civil action is generally brought by the party who has been injured or otherwise suffered some form of loss as the result of a wrong which only directly affected him (e.g. trespassing into private property). When a civil law is broken, legal action is brought by an individual against another for some form of legal remedy, e.g. damages. In civil suits, the party initiating legal proceedings is referred to as the plaintiff and the party being sued is called the defendant. For a plaintiff to successfully seek...show more content...
Javery resisted and thus she was stabbed and left to die in the car park. Walter Steward, the administrator of her estate, sued Bloomingdale's parent company, Federated Department Store Inc, for not undertaking adequatesecurity measures to protect Javery from intended harm. The standard of proof for this case is strong; the company had 5 security officers and only 1 was stationed at the car park and he was usually called away to monitor the unloading dock, more than 300 florescent light bulbs were not working on that day, there were no gates or fences to keep undesirable people from the car park, the store was in a high crime area, and finally despite numerous requests from employees for increased security, nothing was done on the part of the management. As a result the Connecticut Supreme Court upheld a USD$1.5 million liability award to the estate of Marion Javery.
Criminal law on the other hand is concerned about protecting society from people who commit crimes as prescribed by the common and statutory laws. Criminal law's purpose is conventionally stated as being retribution, deterrence, restraint, and rehabilitation (Gillies, 1990, p 6). In criminal cases the prosecution represents the public or society in taking legal action against the party whom it considers to have committed a crime and seeks to have that party punished. Similar to civil law, criminal law requires the party commencing legal proceedings to carry