God Save the State of North Carolina

Well, after I passed, it was inevitable...I was sworn into the practice of law in North Carolina on Thursday, April 24. We started off with an address from the judges, and then they called us up in groups of 10 (I was in the third group) and had our sponsors introduce us and "move for our admission." Not knowing anyone, I didn't have a sponsor when I got there, so when I got up, one of the attorneys present came up and served as my sponsor. I have a friend who is an attorney who I wanted to sponsor me, but she was out of the country the last week, so that didn't happen. After that, we all stood and took the oaths for state court and for federal court.

Unfortunately, I'm going to have to do the federal court swearing in again, because I haven't completed the requirements for that. I have to take a training course for the online document submission software and then register for it, and then I will have to petition the court to be admitted. But, until then, I can still practice in state court.

A very positive bonus to the ceremony is that I met an attorney whose wife is originally from Jackson, and who knows Mark Hosemann as well. Moreover, I met one of the judges who is a fellow Ole Miss graduate. She kept saying that Ole Miss people have to stick together up here and offered to give me a tour of the courthouse some time. I'm hoping that will turn into meeting my future employer, or maybe even getting a job with her court for a little while.

Lauren started her new job today, but I won't be able to talk to her about it until some time tomorrow night because I have work at 5:15 and she won't get home til after then, and I work until 10 or so. She was very nervous about her first day, but she was also excited.

Connor is doing well. He had a bad day last week where we took him up to the vet to get his Bordatella vaccination (turned out to be a liquid that was squirted into the nose instead of a shot!), which took about an hour total because they had an emergency they had to attend to. After that, Lauren showed up out of nowhere while we were checking out and suggested we get him groomed, so he spent the rest of the afternoon getting his hair and nails cut. After that he was more than happy to come home and just sit around the rest of the night.

The job hunt continues and I haven't gotten any further leads, although there was one firm that told me to call back this week and they may want to bring me in for an interview for a position that will open up in a month or two. Also, I have an interview with another document review company at the end of the week.

The Hunt

I PASSED!!! I have finally started to settle back into some sense of normalcy after being on Cloud Nine about passing the bar exam. I figured I'd take a few weeks off from blogging to enjoy it, but most of the reason why I haven't blogged is that I haven't had time to do it between working and trying to get resumes together to send to law firms. Unfortunately, it seems that with the economy not doing so well, firms aren't really hiring at this point. I don't know whether that is the reason or if it is my less than stellar class rank, or maybe even the fact that I didn't send them a resume in the middle of my third year of school. Either way, the fish aren't really biting at the moment. Still, I'm staying in the hunt and eventually I'll find something. For the time being, I'm happy knowing that on Thursday I'll be sworn in to practice (even without a job).

Enough about me. Lauren's last month has been equally exciting. Shortly after she interviewed with Limited Too, she was given an interview with Cato, Inc., to be an assistant buyer. A few days after the interview was offered, she was offered the actual position with Limited Too, because she still wanted a new job. She then had her interview at Cato, and it went very well, so well that she was actually offered that position (it is actually with their subsidiary called "It's Fashion"). Its much more along the lines of what she wants to do, so she's very excited. The funny thing is that she had actually started training with Limited Too, and because her training was not complete, they didn't need a "two-week-notice" but she had already told Cato that she would, not having known that they'd just let her stop working at Limited Too. Long story short (too late) she gets two weeks off before she starts the Cato job, so as I write this, she is in Virginia spending time with her Grandmother.

Connor is doing well, and is really not enjoying Lauren being gone, but that makes two of us. Being alone in Charlotte is pretty boring, even though it is a big city.