My fourth week at the OBA

My fourth week at the Bar Association was filled with the usual assignments of finding past OBJ articles, archiving past OBJ issues and handling brochure orders from the public. With Law Day events coming closer, I assisted the staff in making arrangements for the ceremony to be held for first place contest winners and sat in on meetings regarding the staffing of more interview segment shoots. I worked on making the certificates for all first, second and honorable mention winners for the contest categories from Pre-K to 12th grade.

The OBA also sponsors a statewide mock trial program that local high schools compete in annually. The semi-finals are coming up and the final eight teams were recently announced. Last week, I composed six press releases - one for each school whose team advanced to the semi-finals - to announce their success and upcoming competition dates. (Two high schools had two teams advance to the final rounds.) I always enjoy the opportunity to write pieces that will potentially be picked up by the media. In the future, I would like to be a part of the of the process of sending the releases out to media contacts.