I Became a Law School Genius – 20



I Became a Genius Law School Student Episode 19

As soon as I opened the classroom door what greeted me were familiar faces.

“Oh do you do legal clinic too?”

Yoo Taewoon waved his hand as if he was happy to see me.

“Because of my advisor.”

“Oh Professor Yonghwan Jang? “They said they were telling me to try this and that but it seems to be true.”

“you?”

“I’m just like whatever. “I thought that practicing consulting and writing would be helpful when applying for an internship at a law firm.”

It wasn’t a bad idea.

The assignments given during the internship program at large law firms ultimately involved finding data and writing opinions.

Its essence was not much different from the activities at the Legal Clinic.

Of course due to its nature the Legal Clinic tended to deal mainly with the everyday legal relationships involved in the lives of small-scale citizens.

On the other hand the assignments for interns at law firms were closely related to major cases such as corporate law and capital market law.

So even though it was a little different it was true that this experience itself was meaningfully helpful.

“Good. “If you come there will be a lot of people to see and learn from.”

“Even you.”

I turned my head in the direction Taewoon Yoo pointed.

It’s not that it’s not but this Legal Clinic was quite fancy.

The first thing I noticed was Jeong Min-sik a third-place first-year student sitting at his desk and pouring a handful of chocolate into his mouth.

It seemed like he had his head down on his smartphone but the screen he was looking at was printing a PDF file of a previous exam collection.

But that PDF version has never been released.

It was a great effort to scan each item by hand.

As I was watching with admiration Jeong Min-sik suddenly raised his head and our eyes met.

The guy frowned as if he had seen something unclean and clicked his tongue.

‘Why is that kid suddenly acting like that again?’

Jeong Min-sik looking dumbfounded put his head down on his previous exam papers again.

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Someone approaches that guy and says hello.

“Are you here early?”

“You came late. “There are only 5 minutes left.”

“haha. “To buy this.”

Despite Jeong Min-sik’s scolding Shin Seo-jun just smiled and took something out of the envelope.

It was coffee with a famous chain store logo on it.

“I’m probably sleepy after dinner so why not take this?”

“…Let’s say something sooner.”

Only then did Jeong Min-sik awkwardly scratch the back of his neck and receive the coffee.

From the original work Shin Seo-jun was the type of person who definitely took care of his people.

By doing small favors over and over again keeping them on your side and showing them off to others it makes them want to do the same.

In fact even now many female students in the classroom were casting envious glances at Jeong Min-sik.

No is that just blushing?

As the best people on the left and right gathered together the crowds around them began to slowly gather together.

Since both of them were already famous people on campus it was only natural.

“Seojun hi! “Did you listen to the lecture I told you about last time?”

“I thought the instructor was okay? “The explanations were as detailed as those teaching police and criminal law so it was good to review.”

“Hehe right! But how long are you going to be respectful?”

“I’m comfortable with this. haha.”

Despite drawing a gentle line the female student was not intimidated and continued to say various things.

Starting with her the topics of the people who gathered one by one flowed and eventually came down to talking about grades and rankings.

That’s how law school students used to be.

“But once again both of them are truly amazing. At the entrance ceremony I got first place and third place and at the first round I got first place and third place and my overall rank was first place and third place. “It just doesn’t change.”

“Look at Jeong Min-sik. Even now I’m watching multiple choice OX on my phone. “There’s a reason for everything.”

“Seojun plays tennis goes out for drinks and does everything he can but he’s number one.”

“This guy… he’s just in a different weight class.”

“This is too much praise. “I’m just more familiar with it because I saw it a little earlier than you all.”

Although they seemed friendly there was an atmosphere of class division between them with Shin Seo-jun being considered one step ahead of Jeong Min-sik.

Just now I clearly witnessed Jeong Min-sik’s expression becoming slightly crumpled even if only for a moment.

Jeong Min-sik’s feelings toward Shin Seo-jun are ambivalent. I was happy that they recognized me but on the other hand I also had a dull sense of inferiority that I couldn’t catch up no matter how hard I tried.

The reason why Shin Seo-jun keeps Jung Min-sik by his side despite knowing this is because he saw clearly that such an inferiority complex was the driving force behind Jung Min-sik’s growth.

In the end talented people are useful.

Even in this legal clinic scene the gap between the two is clearly revealed.

Jeong Min-sik eagerly responds to his first client’s consultation call today but ends up frozen in front of a case he has never seen before.

On the other hand Shin Seo-jun immediately points out the main points of the case and quickly realizes that the issue requires expert review.

After appeasing the client he calmly handed over the matter to the faculty and attempted to resolve it.

‘It was a fall accident at a nursing hospital. It was fun.’

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It was a passage that I almost memorized after reading it over and over again.

I thought about how I would have responded if it were me looked up precedents organized my thoughts and posted them as comments.

Thanks to this even at this very moment each and every part of the solution came to mind vividly.

It was a time when I was looking back on memories and trying to get lost in thought.

“Are you all gathered? “Let’s get started soon.”

The door clicked open and Vice Director Choi Seong-cheol came inside.

Although the tone is informal and friendly you should not be fooled.

Because it’s all calculated and done to create the image of a ‘comfortable person’.

“Is this your first time seeing my face? My name is Seongcheol Choi and I am the vice director. Legal Clinic is in charge of commercial law corporate law and capital market law. Those who graduated from business school may have seen it in undergraduate liberal arts classes. “Something like corporate law.”

Seongcheol Choi said and looked at the students.

The eyes that scanned each person’s face eventually stopped in front of me.

“It’s here too. “One person.”

Seongcheol Choi let out a sigh as if he was displeased.

“It’s such an amazing thing. Student Park Yoo-seung. “I never thought I’d see you in law school.”

“That’s it.”

“The bumper of my Bentley that you destroyed while drunk is still shaking.”

‘…How many accidents has this guy Park Yoo-seung been causing?’

He even had a record of ruining a college professor’s tea.

Somehow in the original work Choi Seong-cheol left school politics and pushed for Park Yoo-seung’s expulsion emotionally and it seems like there was a story behind it.

“I heard you placed 5th in the freestyle exam. “It’s a wonderful thing.”

“I came to my senses albeit belatedly.”

“Hmm okay.”

Eyes that seem to weigh people on scales and measure their value.

Instead of losing I fired at him and Choi Seong-cheol quietly turned his head first.

“What do you like?”

Seongcheol Choi soon began guiding the legal clinic’s basic procedures and rules.

“Contact with the client will be made through the Legal Clinic’s dedicated receiver located in this classroom. You should never give out personal contact information. “Okay?”

This was a rule to protect each other.

It was said that if personal contact information is provided clients often harass students by contacting them at any time and asking questions about legal issues or urging them to respond.

Conversely there was also a situation where a student threatened a client with information he learned during a consultation through a personal line.

I heard this happened at another law school.

“The consultation took place over a total of three sessions. In the meantime you can request confirmation of the necessary facts from the client deliver a legal opinion and write up the entire process in a report and submit it to me.”

Ultimately Seongcheol Choi the professor in charge would review everything supplement it and deliver it to the client.

A little while after the explanation is over. When the scheduled time arrived a call came from the first client.

-Tiriring. Tiriring.

Seongcheol Choi asked lightly.

“Who wants to receive it?”

But hardly anyone came forward. Everyone was not mentally prepared yet.

“You guys are such cowards. “Give it to me.”

In the end it was Jeong Min-sik who picked up the receiver.

‘Up to this point it’s just like the original.’

– hello.

“This is Korea University Law School Legal Clinic. “What is your business?”

– Oh hello! My name is Oh Ki-tae. I work in the security office at Hankuk University. Well… it’s none other than my father who went into a nursing home and got hurt.

“Keep talking.”

– Ha just thinking about those bad guys makes me shiver. Anyway it’s just people who are hell-bent on eating away the elderly and their families. That’s what a nursing home is.

“…?”

The client Oh Ki-tae poured out words like a waterfall.

– Actually I know some physiognomy. The director had a look of greed on his face. No that’s not what I meant to say. Anyway I want to know how to punish them or get compensation.

‘The issue itself is the same as the original.’

Even the gibberish speaking style was the same as the original.

As Jeong Min-sik asked I calmly listened to the incoherent story the client was telling.

Then excluding meaningless laments or emotional remarks I summarized only the key points and wrote them down on a notepad.

At the end of the story what was written on the note was as follows.

1. The client’s father is an elderly man who recently underwent cerebral infarction and back surgery and is currently recovering. There are no other geriatric diseases such as dementia. Although he was not in a state where he could not move on his own he was admitted to a nursing home because there was no one at home to take care of him.

2. The day when hot water supply was interrupted due to internal construction of the nursing home. After the caregiver left work the client’s father was walking alone without a caregiver to a public bathhouse pulling a walker and the walker slipped and fell.

3. Immediately after the accident the nursing home treated the client’s father at the orthopedic department inside the nursing home and contacted the client to report that “there was a crack in the shoulder but it will get better in two months.”

4. However about ten days after the fall accident the client’s father complained of pain in his pelvis not his shoulder as diagnosed by an orthopedic surgeon. Upon re-examination it was confirmed that there was a crack in the pelvis.

5. The nursing home said ‘Let’s wait and see the situation for now’ but the opinion of a specialist at the university hospital I visited out of curiosity was different.

‘If I want to be able to sit down I need to have hip surgery as soon as possible.’ ‘The injury to my shoulder is so serious that I need to have artificial joint surgery.’

6. In the end the client’s father had artificial joint surgery on his hip and shoulder. The client suspects that the nursing home lied to cover up his father’s injuries which is why his father’s condition worsened.

– I heard something was wrong from the first time the nursing home gave me the opinion. I felt like he was hiding something.

“…What is this?”

“I can’t even figure out what to do?”

The students who had backed away were shaking.

It was different from seeing well-organized content as test questions.

It was an extremely unfamiliar issue to pick an issue out of stories randomly thrown out by ordinary people who were ignorant of the law.

Although something similar was done during the second free evaluation the original was still a court record document so it was organized to some extent.

But this was no different from a raw complaint.

It was not an easy task to cut out unnecessary content and organize only the necessary ones.

Even the incident itself was problematic.

“…What should I do about this?”

Jeong Min-sik who came out in a curious manner was at a loss as he held on to the receiver.

‘In the original work Shin Seo-jun ended up organizing the traffic.’

“Let’s give up.”

Shin Seo-jun who was watching neatly dismissed it.

“If medical or protective agency issues are involved proof becomes very difficult. “Medical lawsuits filed by individuals against institutions have a low success rate and the process is very burdensome.”

He shook his head.

“To be honest… I don’t think this is an issue that can be left to an ordinary first-year student or a current student regardless of grade who has yet to experience practical work.”

That was true.

Not only was it difficult to judge the issue because the issue itself was unfamiliar but it was also a matter of assessing what evidence to secure.

This type of legal dispute was a bit too much for inexperienced law students to resolve.

This case is eventually handed over to the faculty under the leadership of Shin Seo-jun and Professor Park Soo-geun takes the initiative to resolve it.

It was an episode where I was impressed that the professor was indeed a professor because the solution process was described in relative detail.

“Yeah it’s not something we can touch on at our level.”

“Minsik let’s talk well and wait for another incident.”

Other students also seemed to agree with Shin Seo-jun’s views. It was that difficult.

It was the moment when Jeong Min-sik who saw opinions converging was about to open his mouth as if he had no choice.

“Student Park Yu-seung.”

Suddenly Choi Seong-cheol who had been silent turned his arrow towards me.

“What do you think? “This incident.”