Hello all and welcome to my blog!
This blog is dedicated to my Senior Research Project that I am conducting during my final trimester of high school. I am very excited for this opportunity and I hope you are just as excited to go on this journey with me.
The summer before tenth grade I started watching the TV show “Suits.” I found the show incredibly interesting so I decided to take the intro to law class at school as my elective sophomore year. Although the class was different than I expected, it really piqued my interest in law. Since then, I have continued to watch TV shows about lawyers, but also news broadcasts and articles about important court cases. Through these different forms of media, I have discovered that the way attorneys are viewed in real life varies from in fictional stories. I have even spoken to many lawyers who tell me law school in not what you imagine it to be, and definitely not what it seems like in “Legally Blonde.” Yet despite all of this, I have come to realize I do not truly know what a lawyer does on a regular day at work, and I would really love to find out.
This is where my project comes in. The main question behind my project is what lawyers do on a day to day basis and how this compares to the portrayal of their lives in the media (TV).
I will be interning at Dickinson Wright law firm for 10 weeks starting in February. Throughout my time spent working at my internship, I will watch 4 specific TV shows: “Suits,” “Law and Order,” “LA Law,” and “Boston Legal.” I will also shadow and interview lawyers working the specific field from the show to see the similarities and differences between real life and fiction. I will also be able to get their opinion on the dramatization and the stereotypes of the field of law created by the media. I am going to be reporting my findings on this blog every week.
I am very excited for the hands on experience that I will be gaining from completing this project! I think that it is a wonderful opportunity for me to discover if the law field is the right path for me that I might wish to go down during my college education and future career plans.
I hope you follow along!
