April Post

I remember this time last year when I had to sign up for presentations, and I can't believe people will be signing up for mine. I'm excited as well as nervous for these next few weeks of school but the summer will definitely be worth all this hard work. I feel that I am prepared for my presentation as well as my exit interview all I need is practice. I'd like to thank my friends for their support and wish Alan, Vince V, Victor, and Chris good luck on their presentations and interviews. Although we aren't done yet, the remaining work that needs to be done such as the I-Search paper  will and lesson plans will be extremely important in the following weeks, I can't wait!

EXCITED

Blog 19: Independent Component 2

LITERAL
(a)  I, Aaron Ramos, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.
 
(b) For general knowledge and advisement, Mentor- Federico Blanco, while constructing the contract for the deal- Scott, Robert E, and George G Triantis. "Anticipating Litigation in Contract Design." The Yale Law Journal, 115.4 (2006): 845-856. And finally the article I referred to most when in negotiations was Ertel, Danny. "Getting Past Yes: Negotiating as if Implementation Mattered." Harvard Business Review, 82.11 (2004): 60.
 
(c) Update your Independent Component 2 Log (which should be under your Senior Project Hours link) Done
 
(d) In this independent component I negotiated  a deal from start to finish. Meaning I  drafting the legal documents, conferred with the clients, sent initial offers and revised deals that the counter part has sent us.
 
INTERPRETIVE  
This component allowed me to actually do the work that my mentor does on a regular basis and therefore gave me a better understanding of the field and all the work that is done in it. This component gave me the opportunity to decide whether or not I would be interested in pursuing this area of law this as a career. This component demonstrates 30 hours of work in that the process conducted in the  component such as conferring with a client to drafting the document for one deal can a long time. Unfortunately due to privacy reasons I can't post pictures of the deal I drafted or the clients I worked with (they didn't let me take pictures) I can only post the cover page of the deal.

 
APPLIED 
The component helped me answer my EQ by allowing me to experience the work of a lawyer in my field which made me think about the best way  to get my client what they wanted. Throughout the component, especially when it came to negotiating compensation and the time the deal would be implemented I found that the best way to negotiate these terms was through using cleat language and being direct. Not only did this component help me answer my EQ it also supported one of my answers.