Shitty First Drafts by Anne Lamott

How to E-File a Court Document.

You must be thinking “why would I even want to know that?”, and in reality it’s not as useful as other procedures or How to’s. But if you’re looking into a law field or to work at a law office as a assistant it does come in handy more then you would imagine. I personally am a receptionist at a law firm, and usually a receptionist just answers phone calls and welcomes clients who come in. I wouldn’t have thought I would have to learn how to do such an important task. Every lawyer has to do this because if not whatever order or notice they are trying to process won’t be approved by a judge.

First step in e-filing lets say a Notice of Subpoena Duces Tecum (which is a order by law telling you, you have to appear at the place indicated and cannot for whatever circumstances miss unless told so by the lawyer who subpoenaed you) you have to check more then once the word document you did and check if the place is correct, if the case name is correct and especially the case number. Case number is the make or break. Without a case number or correct one you’re screwed when you E-file it, it’s useless. So as I said re read and edit whatever mistake on your word document before converting it into a PDF .

After you checked and converted the document into a PDF.file you must go into the Miami dade clerk’s website look for the Florida Courts efilinh portal option on the left side of the page it will open a new window for you where you would see a log in and password box. Of course if you yourself are the attorney you would know your information to get in and if you’re not then you must have permission by the firm to get a hold of the password and username. Let’s assume you do and type it in and vua-la you’re logged on ready to start. You would choose the existing case and FILE NOW option.

Continue to scroll down and click the attorney’s name in which you are filing for if there is more then one in the firm. You will now click if it is a motion, a order or a notice. As I said we are filing a Notice of Subpoena Duces Tecum so you would choose the notice option. Click the name Click upload file, find the folder you saved it in, again make sure it is a PDF if not the website will not let you upload it in word form. After uploading it you will have a few basic things to enter like the name of the motion, number of pages the document is and pick the the opposing counsel in which the judge should send the approval to also.

The last step is to review before actually entering in the court system. You have the option to read the file once more. Re check the case number, re check the number of pages it actually has, the pricing should say $0 unless it is a special or emergency motion. You would click submit and copy the reference number given in case there is a misunderstanding later on.

It is not as hard as it sounds but it does take alot of caution, and make sure there are absolutely no mistakes. It is very important that there isn’t because then it is your butt and the attorney’s butt on the line. Sometimes there is time to be able to fix it but other times you will be screwed. It is always best to send an email with the attachment to the opossing councel incase the court does not send it to them for whatever reasom, i mean there is over 1000 cases in Florida. There you have it How to E-File a Court Document.

My Dog ate my flash drive, and other tales of woe by Carolyn Foster Segal

In this essay,  the author gives us examples of excuses the students gives for not turning in an assignment on time, giving from her own personal experiance as a English professor at Cedar Crest College. She categorizes the most used excuses by The Family, The Best Friend, The Evils of Dorm Life, The Evils of Technology and The tally Bizarre excuses. These are the famous excuses , famous because they have been used ove and over for decades. . After categorzing each she then breaks i down even more with the examples and for most tells a little story or anecdote. In each category, the author uses humor to exemplify the student’s creativity when presenting their excuses for not completing the assignment on time.

The author gives several examples for each category “My roommate, who is a horrible perso, likes to party, and I, who am a good person, cannot concentrate onn my work when she is partying”(Segal 317). Here, is an exampple from the category The Evils of Dorm Life, where the individual blames the roomate for not being ableto do the homwork because the lack of concentration. Theymay even broad it out to the people next door or just people outside “(a) on of them had boyfriend/girlfriend problems; (b) one of them was throwing up blood; or (c) someone, somewhere died ” (Segal 318).

5 people who have influenced me the most and 5 people who have negatively challenged me

Influential:

Professor Sanchez: my algebra professor which I see only on Saturdays. For a class from 8:30 am to 11:30 am, which sounds like such a drag, right? Well actually he’s made it so interesting that you don’t even feel the hours pass by. He’s taught the class that to not always be mad at the world when you can easily be thankful in seeing another day.

Professor Wolf: My speech professor, is a laid back old man, he knows his stuff and how to keep a speech class entertained. There has never been a dull moment since the semester started. He always starts his class with “I can’t wait to see what happens”, and that just gives us a boost up, that the class will have some “OMG” moment

Nephews: Although i have known them all their life, once i started college, my purpose to keep going was way higher because they saw a great influence of me on to them, especially my eldest nephew, everytime i show him i’m working on a paper and later on the week i show him my grade, he always responds me with “Im going to be a nerd just like you, watch!” So it’s a bigger push to me to keep going for them.

Mom: In everything i have done, she been a great influence on me, of course she’s my mother. Im lucky though, that she never doubted me that i would get to college without a problem. Now that I am here, and show her my exam grades it doesn’t surprise her because she knows i can do all that and more. The fact im her last child, makes me want to make her as proud as possible.

Sister: She as been like a second mother to me, and she doubted me for a while or more like she was scared I would give up like she did when she started college, so her thoughts, and doubts make me stronger and eventually prove to her I can make her proud of eveyrhting she didn’t see in herself, she can see in me.

Challenging:

Prof Chung: My accounting professor is tough one. She’s not horrible at all, but nor is she a soft cookie to get through. The class isnt easy enough and it’s a bit harder with her but i think eventually it will be for the best and be worth her teaching style towards the end.

Dad: I love my dad, he’d awesome of course. He’s a straight to the point kind of man, so we bump heads a lot, naturally. EVer since I started college, he’s made situations a little harder, because he doesn’t understand there is a difference between easy high school to complicated college works, how ever it is he sets his mind, that’s it no way out so it’s tough getting things done here without his understandment.

Friends: A lot of my friends have the same personality as me, and that’s what makes our friendship work but their motivation isn’t as high as mine. I’m the only one from my highschool close friends that started college, so it is hard trying to balance a social life with school life. They don’t always understand i do get busy studying and have no free time sometimes, since they have all the free time, it is tough for them to be okay with me missing out on a lot of the get togethers.

No name lab partner: Working, well trying to work with this individual has been a great hassle, bt you have to work with what you get. It gets so hard to come to a conclusion for assignments, and that’s normal im sure you must think, NO it is not normal that we never  get to a resolution. Half a semester to go , I CAN DO IT

5th person: im sorry no one else has challenged me in this month that school has started

On the Internet, It’s All About “My” by David Browne

The essay “On the Internet, It’s All about “My” was about the trends that corporations picks up from major businesses.The essay explains many “my” sites aim to emaculate homegrown Web sites or trends.. One of the trends that they mention is the prefix ‘my’ for example Myspace.com, MyCokeRewards.com, MyAOL, etc,.  David Browne reconizied the patterns that arose all on its own. Ten years ago in the essay its said that using the prefix “my” was majorly less used then it is now, it has increased through the years. It has become an easy a popular for consumers and corporations.

           The written lesson is ito inform. The author is letting people know that trends in the corporation use to connect between customers or to elivate its business.. “The “my” prefix has become an easy and increasingly popular shorthand for suggesting that bond between consumers and corporations”(Browne 247). “”My” is the latest in a line of prefixes that have ebbed and flowed on the Web. A decade ago, everything was “e” ”(Browne 247). These two quotes show what using “my” does for a business and how each year or decade as they said the prefix changes. Each new change makes something more of the website and corporation using it.