Intership Reflection

During my internship at the Public Defender's Office, I proved to be beneficial to the attorneys, and the clients. Unlike other Undergraduate interns, I worked directly under the head Wake County Public Defender and assisted him on felony cases. I was even trusted to go on interviews alone with clients. Although the internship required for a class I was taking at school, I continued with my internship up until my graduation, because I wanted to continue working on cases. I was able to bring a unique perspective and set of knowledge of the cases I worked on, which positively affected the outcomes of the cases I worked on during my internship. One of the first cases I worked on surrounded a client who was facing first-degree murder charges. …show more content…
I was able to use my skills and research Excel and social media to paint a different picture of the client and bring up evidence which pointed to the actual perpetrators. I am a person who does not take things at face value; I am very analytical as well as logical. These aspects of my personality, as well as my hard work and dedication, changed how the attorneys working on the case viewed the client, which resulted in the attorney asking me to investigate further. The attorney working on this case would ask me to review any new evidence which presented itself and trusted my opinion on the case. All of my hard work on this case, and the attorney's trust in me proved beneficial to the client and resulted in another individual being connected to the crime, and our client being found less culpable. Another case I worked on surrounded a client who was also charged with murder. When I first was introduced to this case, the client was being pressured into taking a 25-year plea deal since the attorneys in the office I was interning at, believed it was an open and shut case, and did not feel the need to investigate the case.Like the previous case, I was asked to help investigate the evidence of the case, compile a timeline, and research case law relevant to the case at

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