THE GREAT DEBATERS

DECEMBER 2011 EDITION

BE GREAT! BE A GREAT DEBATER!

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DFDSADDA SKSDLFAJ NYCUDL DOMINANCE! The Northeast has a long history of some of the top debate schools and leagues in the nation. But the urban debate movement in New York has always been one of the most dominant debate programs. This year is no exception! Yale. Georgetown. Metro Hudson Debate League. Brooklyn Queens Catholic Forensics League. New York Catholic Forensics League. New York City Invitational. NYCUDL teams have won everywhere!
UPCOMING TOURNAMENTS!
December 17th - BQCFL, NYCFL January 7th - NYCUDL #4, Brooklyn Tech February 3rd-4th - Newark Invitational February 11th - NYCUDL #5 and All Girls Tournament, Hunter February 7th -20th - Harvard Invitational February 25 - MHL Championships, Horace Mann March 2nd-3rd - Lakeland Invitational

"I think debating in high school and college is most valuable training whether for politics, the law, business, or for service... A good debater must not only study material in support of his own case, but he must also, of course, thoroughly analyze the expected argument of his opponent. The give and take of debating, the testing of ideas, is essential to democracy. - John F. Kennedy

Letter from the Editor

debaters. Recruit new schools. Take lots of videos and photos of your debates. Fill out those media Welcome to our rst monthly edition of the Great consent forms so we can publicize your Debaters Newsletter which celebrates the accomplishments. Check out our new website at achievements of the Great Debaters of the New York www.nycudl.org. Let us know what you need by City Urban Debate League. The last three months contacting nycudl@gmail.com. Help out debate have been hectic but historical - a new league (New teams from other UDL schools so we can present a York City Urban Debate League), new website (www.nycudl.org), new newsletter (Great Debaters), united front against our competition. Help coach younger debaters. Judge whenever you can. Seek out new staff, new schools, new debaters, new debate topic, and soon a New Year! But all these are exciting coaches, alumni and college debaters for advice. Help your team with fundraising ideas. Be a Great developments as our league prepares to double each year to become the largest urban debate league in the Debater! - Erik Fogel country again! So we need your help! Recruit new

THE COMEBACK KIDS OF BENJAMIN BANNEKER!

Another fantastic year for the Great Debaters team of Benjamin Banneker. Could it be because their coach is also the tournament director.... mmmmm! :) BROOKLYN TECH DOMINATION AT THE METRO HUDSON DEBATE LEAGUES, BQCFL, AND EVERYTHING ELSE!!

A remarkable and historic feat that has never been accomplished in the MHL before! And just a couple years ago Brooklyn Tech didnt have any policy teams at the MHL, and now it monopolizes the MHL! Awesome job to the Great Debaters of Brooklyn Tech! But thats not all folks. Techs domination extended to the BQCFL as well in which a record 18 teams were fielded from Tech, and 4 of these teams went undefeated! Tech captured 7 of the 12 Varsity team awards and 5 of the top 10 Novice Team Awards! Needless to say, Tech easily won the Best Sweepstakes Award.
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In October, Benjamin Banneker fielded several novice teams at the first NYCUDL of the year. They did well in their first tournament and picked up one round each in a tough tournament. Two months later on December 3rd, the Great Debaters of Benjamin Banneker jumped to the top of the charts!!!! The team of Christina Mangroo & Arielle Floyd went UNDEFEATED and took 4th place in the entire tournament. Christina also took 9th top place speaker out of a field of 104 debaters! The team of Ashanna Aytech & Modesta Nolasco skyrocketed from 25th place (winning 1 round) in October to 16th place (winning 3 out of 4 rounds) in November. And dont forget the Varsity Program! The Benjamin Banneker Debaters needed no time to take multiple top awards at the first NYCUDL in October. Jason Smith took 8th place overall best speaker. Trent Fraser took 12th place overall best speaker! Obi Iloka & Shawn Joseph placed 5th place overall at the BQCFL at Brooklyn Tech High School!

Wow! Wow! Wow! The NYCUDL led by Brooklyn Tech literally swept nearly all the policy debate division awards of the first MHL of the year! Brooklyn Tech took First Place (Hyebin Park & Yasmin Nelson). Second Place (Dawood Rashid & Shaquille Sinclair). Third Place (Sam Osterfeld & Pakawat Paamornsut). Fourth Place (Natalie Palaichiuk & Jonathan Jaramilllo), Ninth Place (Andre Khazak & Narish Singh). Wow! So many awards! But that was just the beginning! Brooklyn Tech also swept the top speaker awards in the Novice Division and won First Place (Yasmin Nelson). Second Place (Hyebin Park). Third Place (Dawood Rashid). Fourth Place (Pakawat Pamornsut). Fifth Place (Jonathan Jaramillo)!

BRONX LAW GOES TO WHITE CASTLE AND SWEEPS NYCUDL #2

Bronx Law is a small school but houses one of the largest urban debate teams. So when they rolled into Brooklyn, they brought half of the Bronx with them and took half of the awards! All the top team awards went to Bronx Law! 1st. Place (Veronica Diaz & Raymond Ventura Marte). 2nd Place (Celines Berroa & Chabeli Rodriguez). 3rd Place (Kaitlin Aviles & Ashley Meija). 5th Place. (Bryan Andrade & Tyana Nunez). 8th Place (Cynthia Harrison & Stephanie Camacho). 10th Place (Ibrahima Sene & William Cruz). And most of the top speaker awards also went to Bronx Law! 1st Place Veronica Diaz; 2nd Place Chabeli Rodriguez; 3rd Place Ashley Meija; 5th Place - Celines Berroa; 6th Place - Raymond Ventura Marte; 7th Place - Tyana Nunez; 8th Place - Kaitlyn Aviles. Surprisingly, the Bronx Law Great Debaters were more concerned with cheeseburgers from White Castle than their awards! So Congratulations again to one of the South Bronxs proudest academic programs The Bronx Law Great Debaters!

ICE ICES THE MIDDLE SCHOOL DIVISIONS.. AND At the second NYCUDL, ICE HIGH SCHOOL DIVISIONS! again took 1st Place Best Team (Liana Van Nostrand & Sahsa Herman), 4th Place (Eamonn Hussie-Taylor & Samantha Levine), 5th Place (Seva Poitevin-Mills & Lee Ann Bael), 6th Place (Juilette Leguelinel & Macarena Aldes), 8th Place (Adelaide Gaughran-Bedell & Joel Little), and 10th Place (Gaby The ICE Middle School Debate Sevillano & Chrish Abraham) Team has started the debate season more dominant than ever! ICE also crossed the Hudson to At the first NYCUDL, ICE teams debate in the MHL tournament at took Best Speaker Awards - 1st Newark. The school entered two place (Samantha Levine), 2nd teams into competition. Its HS place - (Sasha Herman), 3rd Place Novice team took 17th place out (Fionn Leonard), 6th Place (Liana of 57 teams and its 8th grade Van Nostrand), 7th Place team, entered as Novices, (Eamonn Hussie-Taylor), 9th Place (Cooper Howard), and 10th OUR NEW STAFF! Place (Zander Buwinska). ICE also took the top team awards! As we welcome the New 1st Place (Liana Van Nostrand & Year and the New League, we Sasha Herman), 2nd Place also welcome the new staff of the NYCUDL!..... (Eamonn Hussie-Taylor & Samantha Levine), 4th Place (Fionn Leonard & Michell Erik Fogel, Executive Director Wolinsky), 8th Place (Zander Buwinska & Cooper Howard), James Bathurst, 9th Place (Miles Davis-Boch & Tournament Director Adalaide Gaughran-Bedell). At the BQCFL Tournament at Brooklyn Tech, November 19th there was no middle school division! Thank goodness! Oh wait a minute! ICEs high school team went undefeated with 3 wins and took First Place Overall! (Jordan Refol & Charlotte Ehrhardt). And they were far away from their home turf!
Christina Bermudez, Education Coordinator Shana Bryce, Alumni Coordinator Nadia Kline-Taylor, Outreach Coordinator Lee Sharmat, Invitationals Tournament Director

KIPP UPSETS MIDDLE SCHOOL DIVISION AND TAKES FIRST PLACE BEST SPEAKER!

THE CINDERELLA STORY OF CHRISTINA RAMKISSOON AND ULYSSA BROWN AND THE EBA GREAT DEBATERS!

programs and large trophy cases. But Christina and the rest of the EBA Debate Team had no fear and shouted their way to victory! We hope that Christina and her teammate share the secret of their success with the rest of us! Congratulations to the Great Debaters of the East Bronx Academy and their Coach for her incredible work in the new NYCUDL! The NYCUDL has rarely seen such an upset before. Truly a Cinderella story for the record books!

But there was one school that would not be defeated by ICEs middle school domination. Enter the KIPP Academy. The team of Nakami Woodley & Kobe Powell went undefeated at the November 5th NYCUDL and Kobe took 1st place overall in the Middle School Division in the Best Speaker Awards Category. Judges we heard were awed by his mix of debate and poetry! This was an amazing comeback because at the very first tournament, Kobe placed a distant 16th place! Going into his second tournament, his opponents easily underestimated him and he blew away the competition from across New York City and captured first place best speaker out of 40 debaters across the city! Congratulations to the Great Debaters of KIPP!

New coach. New team. There were not too many expectations for the East Bronx Debate Team led by new coach Christina Bermudez. In our first NYCUDL on October 8th the East Bronx Debaters did a very good job at their first tournament. But for one team there was slight disappointment - Christina Ramkissoon and her partner finished last place in the tournament. Christina also finished 39th speaker out of 40 individual debaters. But one month later she was at the top of the field!!!! Out of 38 debaters, she took 6th place overall best speaker and beat top debaters from the KIPP Academy, Bronx School for Law, Government and Justice and the Institute for Collaborative Education. She and her partner Maliya Perez also took 7th place overall out of the entire tournament. They had defeated schools that have been doing debate for years with large

OUR NEW NEWSLETTER!

This newsletter is published on a monthly basis and distributed at our monthly NYCUDL tournaments. The color edition is also available on our website (http://www.nycudl.org/about/ newsletter.html) If you would like to write any articles, columns, poetry, art, rap, speeches, arguments, or anything else for our newsletter - please do! You can email any of your material to nycudl@gmail.com and also contact your coach as well! This is a newsletter for the entire League and so make it your own! Heck, you can even quote it in debate rounds if you want! :) What we need! Articles by students, opinions about the debate topic, performance debate samples, debate advice to new debaters, shout outs to fellow debaters or coaches, advice for the NYCUDL, questions about debate, and anything else!

PS 278 TAKES ACORN DEFENDS HOME WASHINGTON HEIGHTS TO TURF WITH FIRST PLACE THE HEIGHTS!!! IN BROOKLYN AND THEN TAKES MORE TOP SPEAKER AWARDS THAN ANY OTHER SCHOOL IN NEW JERSEY!

Most middle school tournaments in the past two years featured three teams battling for the top spot - Bronx Law v. ICE v. KIPP. But this year PS 278 not only has joined the top three schools but is beating the top three schools! At the first NYCUDL tournament of the year the team of Arnolj Kukaj & Enmanuel Portes went undefeated and took 5th place overall. The Team of Mir Ahmed and Jose Espinal also went undefeated and took 7th place overall! The next month they hosted an after school debate tournament in their school against several teams from the Bronx. Powerhouse Bronx Law traveled to Washington Heights confident in victory but instead stumbled into PS 278, surrounded by dozens of PS 278 debaters and after two rounds of grueling debates - all the top spots went to PS 278 teams! Way to go for Coach Loretta Brady and the PS 278 Great Debaters for building an incredible program, one of the largest debate programs and one of the most successful debate programs!

out of all the NYCUDL schools competing, ACORN took the most top awards! So way to go for representing the NYCUDL! But ACORN was not finished just yet. ACORN beat out every other school at the tournament by having not one, not two, but three debaters win in the top ten best speaker awards category. No other school came anywhere close to the number of ACORN top speakers! Guilberly Loussaint took 2nd place overall in the entire tournament. Tyler Anderson took 3rd place overall. And Jonathan Diaz took 6th place

At the BQCFL Tournament #2, November 19th, ACORN (Tyler Anderson & Jonathan Diaz) scored an upset victory and narrowly edged out Brooklyn Tech for the First Place Varsity Team Award! Another ACORN team took 4th Place in the Varsity Division (Jessica Cotto & Michai Joseph). These wins helped ACORN take the 2nd Place Overall Sweepstakes Award! ACORNs domination did not simply end in Brooklyn. Two weeks later on December 3rd, ACORN invaded New Jersey at the Metro Hudson Debate League Tournament #2 at East Side High School. ACORN (Tyler Anderson & Jonathan Diaz) went 3-1 and took Third Place overall in a tough tournament featuring teams from top public schools like Bronx Science and Beacon, private debate companies like Kugnus and AGAPE, and top upstate schools like NFA. In fact

OUR NEW GOAL!

One year from now we will have at least double the number of schools in the NYCUDL. Actually, the real goal is a tripling in the number of schools. In order for us to achieve this goal we need your help! Contact your old middle and elementary schools. Contact your friends schools. Contact your brothers and sisters schools. Speak to your coaches about volunteering at neighboring schools and helping them build debate programs and partnerships. You can get community service credits and valuable college and career letters of recommendations from schools you volunteer at and help coach debate. Dont know how to coach debate? Check out our www.nycudl.org website which has more materials than you could ever need. The New York City urban debate league movement used to be one of the largest debate leagues in the nation. Within in the next couple years we will be the largest and most successful urban debate league in the nation!

NYCUDL ARE NYCUDL TAKES SEMIFINALISTS AT TOP SPEAKER YALE UNIVERSITY! AWARD AT THE
September 26th 2011

GEORGETOWN TOURNAMENT!
October 1st 2011

OUR FIRST NYCUDL TOURNAMENT OF THE YEAR!

October 10th 2011

Yale is one of the top universities in the nation and also has one of the most prestigious debate tournaments in the nation. Top private and public schools from across the country travel to Yale to compete. But the NYCUDL's very ownCharles Athanasopolous and Lenny Hererra from the Bronx School for Law broke into the semi-nals of the tournament and each won top speaker awards. Lenny Hererra won 6th place best speaker and Charles Athanasopolous won 8th Place best speaker. Congratulations!!!!

Georgetown is a National Circuit Tournament meaning that the best of the best come from across the country to compete in Washington D.C. NYCUDL teams not only had winning records but one of our debaters, Geordano Liriano, took the overall 11th place best speaker award out of over one hundred of the top debaters from across the country!

Huge shout out to all the coaches and debaters of the New York urban debate league movement. We were not sure if we were going to have our rst tournament of October - heck - we weren't even sure if we even had an urban debate league anymore! But everyone rallied together to save the season and the NYCUDL was born! Huge shout out to the over 100 debaters who participated in the tournament. All divisions were represented - Middle School, Novice, and Varsity. Shout out to the Institute for Collaborative Education for hosting and their exibility with dates. We can

NEXT SEASONS SEPTEMBER SPRINT!

September is the only month in the year where there are no debate tournaments for the urban debate league. That will be ending next year! September is actually the busiest month! With tournaments at Wake Forest University, Yale University, and Georgetown University - we plan to flood these tournaments with NYCUDL teams next year. So no way you will be sleeping next September, you will be sprinting for the Gold!

TWO NYCUDL TEAMS BREAK AT THE BRONX SCIENCE INVITATIONAL!

division of the top 12 awards Brooklyn Tech and Bronx Law shared four of those awards.

The Metro Hudson League is one one of the largest leagues in the Northwest with top October 17th 2011 schools from across New York State, New York City and New Several teams broke at one Jersey competing! Not only did the NYCUDL take the top of the toughest tournaments awards - but the most in the nation at the Bronx awards!!! Congratulations High School of Science. everyone!

Brooklyn Technical's Alex Viner & Purti Pareek broke into the double octanals rounds and so did Bronx Law's Charles Athanasopolous and Lenny Hererra. Lenny Hererra also captured 14th place best speaker in the entire tournament of hundreds of debaters. Congratulations to the NYCUDL!

BOSTON MASSACRE!
November 1st, 2011

1st Place - Kaitlyn Aviles (Best Speaker) 2nd Place Novice - Kaitlyn Aviles & Angel Marte (4-0, undefeated!) 2nd Place Varsity - Betty Mahmud (Best Speaker) 3rd Place Varsity - Betty Mahmud & Nevia Gallimore 3rd Place Novice - Jabar Williams & Christopher Williams (4-0, undefeated) 4th Place Novice - Tiuana Ginyard & Stephanie Nyame 4th Place - Mame Djigal (Best Speaker) 9th Place - Frank Hernandez (Best Speaker)

NYCUDL Debate Storm Blows Through Northeast! As the Northeastern storm rages across Boston and New York, our Great Debaters blew through the competition on Saturday at the Manchester Invitational and took tons of award at our sister UDL NYCUDL SWEEPS Greater Boston Debate THE METRO HUDSON League! Competing against LEAGUE elite Boston schools like Boston Latin and suburban TOURNAMENT #1!!! 6 Dec 2011 schools - our Great Debaters captured numerous awards including 1st Place Top Wow! Wow! Wow! The NYCUDL led by Brooklyn Tech Debater and 2nd Place Top Team (in all divisions) and two literally swept nearly all the policy debate division awards! undefeated teams! And a huge shout out to the Boston Brooklyn Tech took First UDL and Greater Boston Place. Second Place. Third Debate League for being Place. Fourth Place. Ninth Place. Tenth Place! Brooklyn incredible hosts, offering incredible housing, and an Tech in the Novice Best incredible tournament! Speaker Division won First Place. Second Place. Third Place. Fourth Place. Fifth Place! In the Junior Varsity

MARK YOUR OCTOBER 2012 CALENDARS FOR THE MANCHESTER TOURNAMENT!

In my first year coaching in the UDL I was able to attend the Manchester Invitational! It was one of the best tournaments of the year! There were so many UDL teams! But sadly UDL teams stopped going. For at least the past three years, only Bronx Law has continued to compete in Manchester. THIS WILL CHANGE NEXT YEAR! Our big goal for September is to send teams to Wake Forest, Yale and Georgetown. And in October our goal is to flood teams into Manchester! The tournament is excellent. The housing is the best! The meals are fantastic! And any Boston debates are always incredible. Plus we support our sister Boston UDL!

NYCUDL #2 ACORN, WHITE CASTLE AND NYCUDL Takes DEBATE! November 6th 2011 Newark!
What more can you ask for on a Saturday morning Brooklyn, ACORN - one of the most historic UDL schools in the nation, and all you can eat White Castle burgers right across the street! We had an awesome second tournament for the league. And best of all the NYCUDL was ofcially founded to revolutionize the urban debate league movement in New York City! Congratulations to everyone! December 6th, 2011

ACORN took 1st Place and Brooklyn Tech took 2nd Place. Congratulations everyone for representing the NYCUDL proud!

awards! So huge shout out to everyone and all your debaters!

MARK YOUR NOVEMBER 2012 CALENDARS!

Introducing our 2011-2012 National Circuit Team Program. Our goal for next year is that the best of the best debaters will be able to travel to compete against the best of the best across the nation. And no month offers better national opportunities than November. One of the most elite tournaments - Glenbrooks is offered in November which NYC Title I schools have not competed for a long time! There is also the fantastic Little Lex tournament in Boston. Finally, there is a tournament at one of the top Ivy League Universities in the nation at Princeton. So we hope to send our top teams to these tournaments next year! So start prepping out now! And thats not all for the NYCUDL National Team each month we hope to offer national tournament travel opportunities across the country!... Wake, Yale, Georgetown, Glenbrooks, Harvard, NDCA Championships, Berkeley, Stanford and more! Thats the dream! But we cant just send anyone! So practice hard! Fundraise hard! And where theres a will theres a way!

So we want to give a shout out to the huge NYCUDL presence at Newark! Nearly all the NYCUDL high schools and even middle schools competed at the Metro Hudson Debate League Tournament in Newark. AND all the schools came back to NYC with awards! This was our league's biggest turnout for a MHL! And a big shout out to Maria, Coach of John Jay bringing a few of her debaters to observe as well! Despite heavy competition from schools like Bronx Science, private after school companies like AGAPE and Kugnus, and the Jersey Urban Debate League - the November 19th, 2011 NYCUDL captured more awards by a landslide and had Brooklyn Tech and ACORN more debaters by a landslide took 1st and 2nd Place and that wasn't even our home Sweepstakes awards, taking turf! You could of combined out top Manhattan and the LD and PFD divisions and Brooklyn schools. In the Novice Division, of the top 10 wouldn't of equated to all our teams in the entire tournament policy entries! In the Novice Division, NYCUDL schools a whopping 9 were from captured half of the top 20 NYCUDL schools! ICE took 1st Place. Brooklyn Tech took team awards and two of the top ten speaker awards. In 2nd Place. In the Varsity Division of the top 10 teams in the Junior Varsity division, NYCUDL teams captured the entire tournament, an three of the top six awards equally whopping 8 teams were from NYCUDL schools! and half of the top ten speaker

NYCUDL SWEEPS THE BQCFL!

No Break for Debate!

Great Debaters Attend Summer Debate Camps Across the Nation!
By Geordano Liriano, 10th Grade

Debate camp is a time in a policy debaters career, where they get an opportunity to gain knowledge from the most successful debaters all across the country. The trick is you have to sacrice time from your summer. This summer I attended the Gonzaga Debate Institute at Gonzaga University in Spokane Washington. The experience in the university was wonderful as soon as I got there. I learned about the things we would be debating for the rest of the year. Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its exploration and/or development of space beyond the Earths mesosphere. Throughout the duration of the camp, June 28 to July 23rd, we learned about the astronomy of space as well as the philosophical perspective civilization has taken towards the sky and the constellations. And as debaters we were pushed to understand and learn about these perspectives in order to compete and use the information retained by debate. The reason going to debate camp and understanding these perspectives are so important because debate destroys the boundaries that are created from things that Paulo Freire calls the banking mode of education; where a student is seen as a retainer and the teacher just pours knowledge without any chance of actual practice. In debate we get the opportunity to learn a certain theme and practice that knowledge throughout many arguments or debates. When you go to debate

Debate destroys the boundaries that are created from things that Paulo Freire calls the banking mode of education; where a student is seen as a retainer and the teacher just pours knowledge without any chance of actual practice.
- Geordano Liriano, 10th Grade

camp the professors are able to give lectures and explain said material better. And the experience at Gonzaga was amazing because I got the opportunity to both learn politics and science which are key elements to this debate topic. I also learned philosophy which I nd intriguing and only a few places can actually help you learn a lot of and debate camp was certainly the place to go to understand it better. During the camp I also got a chance to talk to a few professors from schools around the country, to not only better excel in debate but to gain communication with colleges that I might be interested in when the time comes to apply for schools. Debate is a great opportunity to access higher education. Another value that debate camp has helped me gain is independence, in the sense that showed me the dorm life, the college life and how it feels to be away from a large city like NYC. This is important when a student is actually moving on for a long period of time. Overall debate camp has helped me become a

better debater by breaking the barriers of the traditional learning environment. It has introduced me to debaters around the country who share the same drive for victory and knowledge. It also helped me become a better person in many ways. It taught me independence and research and writing skills that will help me throughout my college career.

SUMMER INTERNSHIPS!
MY LAW INTERNSHIP EXPERIENCE
by Annie Chen, 12th Grade
What did you do over the summer? Well, lucky for me I earned an internship at a great law rm. I got a chance to experience the law and court system of New York City rst hand. The rm is located right across the street from the Bronx Supreme Court House, this made it very convenient for the lawyers. This rm is a family law rm, where the mother, father and two sons are all lawyers, which is why the law rm is called Lesch & Lesch P.C. This law rm does not handle criminal cases, they handle accident cases and surrogate cases. Surrogate cases are cases dealing with wills and estates. ! When I went to the interview for the internship, I was nervous and I did not know what to expected. After about 15 minutes of interviewing, I got the job from 9am-5pm every day! ! My rst day at work was July 5th. I was taken to Court and saw the process of Discovery. Discovery is the process where both sides go in for a preliminary conference, asking for papers and documents they need for the case. This was really cool since I did not know this goes on for each different case. Most of the cases the law rm handles reside on the 7th oor unless, it is a surrogate case. ! My rst two weeks at work went by so quickly, I met all the other interns working at the law rm. One of the girls had been working there for 4 years and this year she's going off to college, so she is using the money she makes at the law rm for colleges purposes. And the other two interns have been working there for 1 year, so I'm the newest intern there. The paralegals at the rm are very welcoming and nice. By the end of the 2nd week I really liked my job. Each intern has duties they have to complete by the end of the day. My duties were, to put back les, pull les out, do postings, call clients, do client letters, and other work. If I needed any help, whom ever I asked to help did not hesitate one bit. Everyone taught me the process of how everything functions and works within the ofce. Everyone at the law rm, made me feel like if I were a part of the law rm family. ! I enjoyed working at the law rm a lot, but I had one bad experience. At the court house, all the lawyers and judges I have met and had conversations with were very professional and greet you with a smile that will brighten up your day. The one place I had some problems in court were with the legal clerks! People have warned me some of the clerks are sometimes rude. But not as rude as one I had an encounter with! I had to bring a client to the clerk for their case. As I went up to the counter, I told the clerk what David, my boss told me to tell her. Her response to what I told her was so outrageous. She rst yelled at me and told me thats not what my boss told me to tell her. Then she continued to yell at me and told me that was not the question she asked me. I didnt want to go back to the clerk section of the Court House after that! ! This year, working at the law rm has expanded my horizon, and has expanded my knowledge about the law and how the court system functions. Everyday the court handles many civil and criminal cases. And the process with each case takes a long time, and there needs to be a lot done for just one case. This is why there is such a long waiting time for everyone's case. First hand knowledge is awesome, also working at the law rm has opened up many networks that I will be able to use for the future and when I'am applying for college. Thanks to the Great Debaters, and Lesch & Lesch P.C. for making my summer an incredible learning experience.
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