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>> Kisha Hebbon: My name is
Kisha Hebbon, and I'm an attorney

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with my own practice specializing in family law.

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A typical day is getting my daughter up and
ready for school, darting off to my office,

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and pretty much looking at my
schedule to see if I have court,

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or if I have clients coming in for that day.

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For the most part I'm in
court a lot, so I go to court.

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And while I'm in court, I multitask by going
to my iPad, giving instructions to my staff,

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or answering any questions that my staff have.

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And then once I'm done with
court I go back to the office

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and complete paperwork, or
generate new business.

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The most popular one would be divorce, the most
emotional stressful one, divorce, child custody,

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child support, emancipation issues, like
where if someone's paying for child support

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and the child's now graduated from college,
then the person has to file a motion to have

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that child emancipated, so typically anything
dealing with husbands, wives, and children.

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Lately for the past year I've been in court
maybe 4 times a week, so I'm in court.

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Court entails first talking to the client,
and if I'm in trial, we're in the courtroom,

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I'm on my feet for the whole time, you know,
doing cross-examination, or direct examination

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of my client, putting on experts, presenting
evidence for the judge, or, you know,

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whoever's the trier of fact to review.

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And then once I'm done with that, it's a
matter of either coming back for a second day.

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Most trials do not last only one day.

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And then when I go home -- or sometimes I work
from home, but when I go back to the office,

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then I have to prepare for other cases, because
it's not just one client that I'm representing.

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So I may have to prepare
motion, do a trial brief.

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I do a lot of appellate work, so
that entails reading transcripts,

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and coming up with an argument for an appeal;
and then the other administrative stuff,

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making sure certain letters are done,
the billing is done for the client.

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So it's a very busy life.

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[Laughs]