Souvenir

My supervising attorney on one case came in just now and gave me a "souvenir" - a misprinted copy of the brief I helped develop. It's all pretty and bound, and formatted beautifully (it just has the cover page printed as the first page of the brief, throwing everything off by one page). Even more striking is the fact that a substantially similar booklet is sitting somewhere in D.C., waiting to be read by a Supreme Court clerk, who will then hopefully hand it off to a Supreme Court Justice, who will then hopefully decide to grant certiorari, and clear up this legal issue that I've been staring at for weeks. I can't believe I helped produce something that could be read by those very important nine people. OK, so my contribution was incredibly small; I found a few law review articles and newspaper articles supporting our proposition. But still, it's kind of exciting. And it makes me feel like I am really doing something important, that I really am a part of something big.