Blog 18: Answer 2

1.  What is your EQ?

How does a Personal Injury Lawyer ensure the best overall satisfaction of their client?

2.  What is your first answer? (In complete thesis statement format)

 A Personal Injury Lawyer can ensure the best overall satisfaction of their client by communicating with the client.

3.  What is your second answer? (In complete thesis statement format)

A Personal Injury Lawyer can ensure the best overall satisfaction of their client by educating the client.

4.  List three reasons your answer is true with a real-world application for each.

1. With having to read and fill out a lot of forms, a client needs to be educated into understanding what is happening.
2.  Especially in a accident, insurance companies are brought in the case. It is important to tell the client what was in their policy and let them know how to go about dealing with the companies to get their profit from the accident.
3. During court, mediation, deposition, or any formal meeting; the lawyer needs to help the client understand what is going on with the case along with what is going to happen in these meetings. Also, the lawyer needs to prepare them for worse if it were to come about.

5.  What printed source best supports your answer?

"Why and How to Educate Your Clients." Hooker, Lauren. Elle and Company, 29 Jan. 2015. Web. 4 Feb. 2016. 

 This article is important because it talks about why we should educate clients and then how to educate them in the right way.

6.  What other source supports your answer?

My interview three with my mentor's paralegal Luz, gave amazing information with communication, education, medical help, and insurance companies.

7.  Tie this together with a  concluding thought.

For a case to come together it is important for the lawyer to have the best knowledge in injury cases, so they can deal with any accident that comes their way. They also need to have communication skills and be able to educate the client in simple terms. Without the client there is no case. This is why communication and education is so important. Without these, there will not be a strong working relationship between the lawyer and the client. This will result with the client not being satisfied in the end.

Blog 17 - Interview 3 Reflection

1. What is the most important thing I learned from the interview?  

Dealing with Personal Injury Law is hard work. It requires dedication and speaking skills. A person would have to be able to tolerate a lot of paperwork and trying to gain access to paperwork to go into this profession. A lawyer has to be educated in ways to answer any question people throw at them. If a lawyer doesn't look like they know what they are talking about, they will not be taken seriously. Along with this, Personal Injury lawyer needs to be able to have good communication skills. With any injury insurance companies need to be contacted. I learned insurance companies are not people to be dealt with. They cut corners and they don't give people the money they deserve.

  2.  How has your approach to interviewing changed over the course of your senior project?

By interviewing, I get to learn things different from the internet. I get to learn about personal experiences and thoughts with the topic I want to learn about. I get to ask questions that I want to know and have them answered first hand from an expert. I get insight as well on my topic.

Link to my interview 3 will be on my sidebar on my blog and also here.
https://soundcloud.com/starla-seale/interview-3

Blog 16: Independent Component 2 Approval

1. Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.

For my 30 hours I will attend mediations, depositions, sit in meetings with my mentor, and attend court with my mentor, Cindy Hafif.

2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.

I will log in my hours on the spreadsheet, and I will write about what I did at each thing that I will attend with my mentor. I will write about my thoughts and what I learned.

3.  Explain how this component will help you explore your topic in more depth.

By going to these mediations, depositions, etc.; I will be exploring how cases are dealt with. I will watch the interaction between the lawyer, client, and the other parties involved with the case. I will also earn different cases, and different terms, and how to do thing in Personal Injury.

4.  Post a log in your Senior Project Hours link and label it "Independent Component 2" log.

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Blog 15: Independent Component 1

One of the photos I took at my day at court in the judge's chambers.

·       LITERAL
(a) Write: “I, Starla Seale, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 32 hours of work.”
(b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component.

Cindy Hafif, my mentor helped me gain knowledge and experience during my independent component studies. Luz, a Paralegal, who works for Cindy, also helped me with gaining knowledge on being a lawyer and showing me things in the office.

(c) Update your hours in your Senior Project Hours link. Make sure it is clearly labeled with hours for individual sessions as well as total hours.

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·       (d) Explain what you completed.    

I went to depositions, mediations, and went to court. Everything I did will be turned in, in detail, about what I experienced in my 32 hours.

·       INTERPRETIVE 
Defend your work and explain its significance to your project and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.  

Everything I did, in much detail, will be with everything I turn in. Including photos to prove my evidence of the things I did with my mentor.

·       APPLIED
How did the component help you understand the foundation of your topic better?  Please include specific examples to illustrate this. 

• I sat and listened during my hours, I got to learn many things about being a lawyer and also many things about different types of people. I got to do things some lawyers can’t even do by attending these events with my mentor. I got to meet clients that told the truth and some that ended up being lairs during a settlement. I learned insight on what lawyers go through during settlements to their cases. The job of a lawyer is to always stay on their toes when being with a client, because one little slip up could cost a whole case, and the client is paying the lawyer their time. I also learned that one settlement can take only few hours, or can end up being 15 hours long, like I experienced.  It was fun being able to dress up as a lawyer and watch real settlements between lawyers happen. The arguments, the style people do things, the way people talk and act. It was a real learning experience for me to watch everything happen as a whole. I am really glad of my experiences with my independent component project.

Lesson 2 Reflection

1.What are you most proud of in your Lesson 2 Presentation and why?

I am proud of the information that I supplied in my presentation. I was happy how my activity and hook turned. I also liked my simple power point that went along with my presentation.

2. a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your Lesson 2 Presentation (self-assessment)?

       AE / P        

     b.     Explain why you deserve that grade using evidence from the Lesson 2 component contract.

I came prepared with my lesson presentation. I talked about everything that was required of me and I added extra talking time on stuff that wasn’t required of me.

3. What worked for you in your Lesson 2?

My presentation went smoothly with my hook, my information and mentorship, my activity, and my conclusion.

4. What didn't work? If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your Lesson 2?

To improve myself; I needed to get my nerves down because it made me forget to explain some stuff, it made me jittery, and talk a little bit flustered.

5. What do you think your answer #2 is going to be?

My essential question, “How does a Personal Injury Lawyer ensure the best overall satisfaction of their client?” My answer two will be to educate the client.