For the past month I've been frustrated with my brother's lawyer. I just haven't felt like he cares about the case and isn't trying very hard. So my brother and I set up a meeting to go in and talk. Or, as my family put it, for 'Jen to set him straight'. :)
Before the meeting, I went through all the court documents and reports with a notebook and highlighter and post-it flags. There's just something I love about marking up a page like that. It's almost as much fun as taking a red pen to a page! After taking all my notes and typing them up into a neat list that I could hand over to the lawyer and refer back to when we were talking. I have no problem with confrontation but sometimes I caught up in the moment and it's nice to have a list to pull me back on track.
So the day of the meeting I was armed with copies of my lists, notebooks and a confident attitude and the meeting went very well. Apparently the lawyer got a lot out of it as well because a week later he sent the prosecuting attorney a letter about the case and the middle part of the letter was word for word taken from the list I had given him!
It's nice to see an immediate real world benefit to my writing. Also it was nice to see my family appreciate my writing...enough to give me my own lawyer crown!
1 comment:
That's awesome! I know you worked super hard on this (I'd like to think brainstorming with me helped a little), and I'm so glad it paid off.
FTR, I quite like your blog. It's so close to what I was originally hoping to do with mine, but I think you're actually accomplishing it better. If I ever figure out how to link to other blogs, I'll trade readerships with you. :)
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