Week 1 (February 9, 2015)

Hello!

This week was my first week on site. On Tuesday, I went to a hearing at the courthouse in Phoenix, in addition to going through cases involving social media and family law and narrowing down any interesting ones I find. With the help of my on-site mentor, I was able to obtain a list of cases involving social media in order to help with my research. On Wednesday, I helped the paralegal and learned my way around the office a bit more. I organized all the bills and prepared them to be sent out, and I learned how to file things within the system that the office uses. On Thursday, instead of going to the office, one of my mentors let me accompany him to a trial that he had been preparing for. He had to ask the judge ahead of time for me to observe but the judge said it was fine for me to sit in the courtroom during the trial for educational purposes. Overall, my week was very exciting and busy. I'm very pleased with all of the opportunities I've been given to watch and learn, and I'm looking forward to immersing myself even further into this field over the course of my internship.

If anyone from outside my school (or anyone who doesn't know) is interested, I will be posting at least once a week over the next two and a half months (except for maybe one week for spring break, we'll see, I might do it then anyway).

See you next week!

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Introduction (January 20, 2015)

Hello! My name is Megan Stone and I am a senior at BASIS Scottsdale Charter School. As a final project for our last trimester of high school, I, along with many other classmates, have elected to do a senior research project, which involves working at an internship for a minimum of 15 hours per week. Along with this internship, we must conduct research about the topic that we have chosen to investigate over a time period of ten weeks. After the ten week period of interning and researching data about our selected topic, we will be presenting our observations and other findings in a final presentation at the end of the trimester.

I have not always been interested in law; however, my interest grew significantly upon taking an Introduction to Law course at BASIS Scottsdale. In my senior research project, I will expose the dangers of the casual use of social media in family law. The truth is that people lie, including clients in family law cases, especially if their case is emotionally charged and family is on the line. Unfortunately for these clients, many of them may be overlooking what my come back to bite them. In many cases in modern family law practice, secrets or lies about a case may be revealed upon viewing their Facebook wall or their Twitter account. The underlying purpose behind my research will be to uncover what kinds of cases within family law are most often affected by information shared on social media, and then to examine the types of social media that most prevalently expose this information.

Here is a link to my Senior Research Project Proposal: http://meganstonemms.blogspot.com/p/seniorproject-proposal-meganstone.html

Here is a website link to my Internship Location Site: http://www.levinelawgroupaz.com/

See you soon! 

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