My sixth week at the OBA

Last week, I was in the office on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, as usual, and worked more than 18 hours. I finally recorded my voice mail message for my office phone. I feel so grown up and professional now!

On Monday, I began sorting through all correspondence that had been sent in with announcements to be released in the Bench&Bar Briefs section of the March Oklahoma Bar Journal. The entries always have to be edited for content and length and re-formatted to comply with OBJ and AP style. Then, once I finish editing, I compile them for publication.

The final round of the OBA State Mock Trial Competition was held Tuesday evening in the Bell Courtroom at the OU College of Law and results came in Wednesday morning. The rest of my Wednesday was spent composing press releases announcing the first through eighth place winners. So far, one of my releases has been picked up and can be viewed here:

http://adaeveningnews.com/acsnews/x966922254/Ada-teams-place-2nd-7th-at-state-mock-trial-championship

This is my first published press release!

The results for the Mock Trial Finals are as follows:

1st - Christian Heritage Academy

2nd - Ada High School (White team)

3rd - Clinton High School

4th - Okarche High School

5th - Jenks High School (Red team)

6th - Owasso High School

7th - Ada High School (Maroon team)

8th - Jenks High School (Blue team)

On Friday, my day in the office was spent writing press releases for each county in Oklahoma that had students place in the OBA Law Day art and writing contest. I composed more than 50 releases and turned them in for editing.

I also spent time throughout the week taking care of the usual brochure orders and handling requests for past OBJ articles.