I'm exhausted, and it's only been day two!

My first day really wasn't anything to write home about, it was the typical first day of any job; orientation, menial tasks and confusion, but there was also a lot of learning! She (Mona, the Office Manager/Legal Assistant) instructed me on how to use Amicus, which is basically Outlook but in a different format. She  usually only uses it to book appointments and to docket phone calls. She took me with her to deposit Trust and General cheques into their bank account. We then sat down together to work on a Case Conference Brief. The biggest job was actually the filing! They have such a different setting than what I imagined: they uses these big accordion file folders to store each client in. They colour coordinate each file folder that fits into the accordion folder; kirk for correspondences, orange for accounts, dark blue for pleadings to name a few. Before I knew it, the day was done!

Day two was more exciting, from my stand point. She tasked me with depositing some General cheques into their bank account. I updated a client's Case Conference Brief based on the Client's notes she had taken. Mona reviewed them and had to make changes; I wasn't elaborating enough on what the client had written. She also showed me where to find the closed files in the basement, and the corresponding booklet that stored what box the client files are in. Then, and this is the highlight of my day! She let me start a Case Conference brief on a new client. It took me four hours of dredging through the previous Case Conference Briefs (before Heather was representing her) and the pleadings to find the information. If I didn't need to leave early to go to my paying job, I think I may have just finished the whole CC brief.

That was my first two days! Mona gave me a dire warning of unending filing tomorrow, which means I get to learn the layout of their system even better by the end of it ;)