The Recorder, September 22, by Mike McKee
http://www.law.com/jsp/ca/PubArticleCA.jsp?id=1202424682361
Amir Amiri, a student at UC-Berkeley School of Law who externed for Chief Justice George … said, “In my first meeting, I was honestly scared…. But they give you the briefs and memos and you go to town.”
“Because we’re externs,” said Luiz Arroyo, a UC-Berkeley law student who worked for Moreno … “they’re not going to give us the really hard ones that the judges would scratch their heads on.”
It can be tough at times, said Brian Israel, a UC-Berkeley law student…. “One of the staff attorneys distributes conference memos … and you have two hours … to research and argue why review should or should not be granted. It was a hair-raising experience at first, but it’s really quite useful to see what you can do in two hours.”