The 1st day in L.F CHONG & CO

This is the second week of my final sem break. Finally, I was able to practise in a nearest lawyer firm in my place.

I was under the only male lawyer namely Chong Lung Fei, 31 years of age. And i was the only clerk in his firm as the firm was just newly established. Frankly said, i was actually wondering why he want to hire me... During the interview, i was telling him the very truth that i will only able to help him for 2 weeks, and he also told me that he can actually handle those job by his own account. However, he decide to use me. Perhaps for my motive that to learn something from his firm was the reason to hire me. The only lawyer and the only clerk were thus start the first day of work.

Actually i was quite fear about the working environment due to the chemical result from the interaction of natural human being was quite ' dangerous ' for the only male and female to stay in a space for a long time..Then.. for safety purpose, i gave my mom and dear all the informations about him...( although it seems exaggerate, but never judge a book by its cover as many thing may not be expected by a reasonable person )

No longer from the morning, he passed me 2 current files for me to do some research. Then only i found that the files were actually written in BM , fortunately i could still remember the majority of BM language. Due to still not use to understand those legal term in BM, then i have to wrote them down into another paper in english. Then all the matter seems like more easier for me to understand . One of the case was quite interesting, it was dealing with the issue which i just took it in my last sem final exam. It deal with the matter of Tort ( vicarious liability) , but there was a doctrine (roman legal maxim) namely Rep Ipsa loquitor appear in the statement of claim on the part of plaintiff, it looks really familiar and i'm very sure that i've learned that no longer before, yet i forgot its application and meaning. This kind of feeling was toturing my mind for few min and i decide to call my friend and ask for the answer. Haha.. who know the answer was not sure. But the little crue that he gave me has remind me something important. Anyway, i have prepared some points in my little note as some refferrence in future.

After reading 2 files, i was continue reading my news paper as a way to elevating my english. I wouldnt know whether this kind of learning method was really effective, but , except of doing that , i've really run out of ideas to do it better. The whole afternoon then, I was just seeing Mr Chong going in and out while i was going up and down to open and close the door for him. It seems like the very first thing that i can do for him as a legal clerk. Then, i was so happy when he finally ask me to do the second thing as to fax a paper to a client in this long long afternoon. Then.. he went out again..after his back, another surprise from him was another 2 cases for me to read...haha..so happy to see that ..cause i was going to finish my newspaper and i will have nothing to do then. After sometime, i've finished absorbing the files again and finally get his response to ask me whether i understand them. Frankly, the content in those files wasnt arrange in a good order..yet i still can understand some of them roughly as i've learned it before. However, the practical manner in settling a dispute is not the one we learned in lecturer hall. For me, the financial consideration will take much priority than the rights of the parties when going through a legal proceeding.

It was grateful that he willing to spend the last 30 min to teach me something which cannot learn in school ( although some calls were disturbing in the half way of explaination ). All in all, although it was quite boring in the afternoon, yet it is worth to stay as i'm still able to learn something which the money cant paid at the end .. :P