Personal Narrative: International Criminal Cases

I loved living in New York. The city’s streets were always busy and the diversity of the people residing there gave the metropolis strong character.

For ten months, I had been practicing law in the city and enjoying my job greatly until that fateful day when my fiancée ended our engagement. Shortly after the breakup, work became my sanctuary, a place where I did not have to think about my life.

I had an extremely important meeting with an exceedingly prominent executive name Brian Ross, who hired our firm to represent his little sister in an International criminal case. Mr. Ross was beyond wealthy and had attorneys at his disposal, but our firm had more experience handling International cases and his sister stood accused of drug possession in a foreign country, which was an extremely serious charge that could land her in prison for a very long time.

Since this was such an important client and my employer wanted this case desperately, I made sure to dress nicer in comparison to my normal meeting attire.

Deciding on a black pencil skirt that ended at the top of my knees, a long sleeve white blouse and high black stilettos were the easy part, getting my curly hair to cooperate was the actual challenge, and at the end, I decided an

So, Isabel, how do you intend to get my sister out of jail by tomorrow?"

Glancing at David and then at Brian, who looked unconvinced I uttered, “We can get her out of jail and out of the country by today.” With a mocking laugh, he asked, “How? Please enlighten me.” Annoyed by his patronizing attitude, I answered, “I had reviewed your sister's case file. We can get the charges dismissed. If the judge does not dismiss the case, she can be out on bail. Once out on bail, we get her out of the country.” He smiled. “Our legal team can fly there