Mentor Logs

April 18, 2013, 9am-1pm

Today I met up with my mentor, Criminal Defense Attorney Jeffrey Hayden. I made out a list of goals that I would like to attain from him. The goals I listed were: to understand the process of analyzing the case and learning the certain vocabulary they discuss in the courtroom. He gave me a 50 page police report to read and analyze. Obviously I cant speak about the case itself because it's client privileged, but it was really interesting to see that it was a real case. I never knew that things like that could actually happen. He also gave me a piece of paper that was for the investigator to see. The lawyer is supposed to fill it out and after he is done making analysis over the case, he hands it to the investigator to do his job. Hayden also spoke to me about thinking differently and thinking about what the other side (prosecution) would be presenting to the judge. I found that super cool because I actually really never thought of that. Afterwards, a client of his came in and I got to meet him and listen to their discussion about his case. It was really cool, but then again, I cannot speak about it because it's client privileged. We also got to speak about college and whatnot and the steps in order to become a lawyer. After that, we went out to lunch! It was was a great meet.