Keerthi is a Judicial Law Clerk for the District Court of New Jersey. Her main role is to assist with the writing of opinions in civil and criminal matters as well as help her assigned judge with all research and trial preparations. Keerthi’s advice is to develop your network of contacts as early as possible!
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>> My name is Keerthi Mundrati, I work as a judicial clerk for the United States District Court of the United States and I work with honorable Susan D. Wigenton. A judicial law clerk works with the United State district court judge and basically what I do is I write opinions and I work on all of the different matters that are pending in the court so I work on both civil and criminal matters. And basically I-- if there's trials going on, I work with the judge. If there's anything that she needs, with respect to research I work with that and I do a lot of case management to make sure that her cases are like flowing and so that nothing sort of get stuck in rot-- in terms of case work. We get into the office around nine, that's when the court room opens and the busiest thing that could happen is we get a request for a temporary restraining order and so that means that somebody out there needs something to be enjoined or stuffed immediately so somebody is in infringing on your product. I think one of the fondest things we had was that we had ornaments, like holiday ornaments, and a company was saying that, "There was another company out there that had the exact same ornament and they were infringing." So they came in a couple days before Christmas with a temporary restraining order saying, "Hey, we need these guys to stop selling what they're selling." So, you know, getting the papers ready and making sure that the judge has everything that she needs in order to make a decision. So that's the type of thing that would make a day crazy because it's something that's emergent. And then just having different court proceedings and managing phone calls on a day to day basis, those are the types of things that can come up at any point. So all of that happens while we're trying to write opinions and resolve cases in a timely passion. So there's a lot of being on your feet while trying to still get solid amounts of work, you know, chunks of work done like while you can basically. [ Silence ]
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