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sigmachiev posted:
You mean... Boalt! Congrats!
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sigmachiev posted:
CONGRATULATIONS
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Jul 8, 2010 18:52
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Linguica posted:congrats, fucker Thanks bud. You know your insight was key to all this. Thanks everyone!
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Jul 8, 2010 19:17
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congrats! boalt sounds like a good name for a dentistry school perhaps you should focus your studies on dentistry law (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Jul 8, 2010 19:29
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Congrats sigmachiev! You deserve it (unemployment and a lonely grave)
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Jul 8, 2010 20:24
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Congrats, now you can "boalt" from USD to a better California school! Called Berkeley.
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Jul 8, 2010 23:40
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Ahh Transfer Chat, that special time of the year were I engage in constant self-flagellation over my incredibly boneheaded decision to turn down a transfer to U of M and stay at my TTT
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Jul 9, 2010 00:35
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I was cleaning my room today and found all of the brochures and correspondence and offers from various TTTs (including forum favourites Valpo and Cooley  ). I seriously considered going to them before I found the thread.I wonder what might have been  (actually Lewis & Clark's stuff was kickin' rad and sold the place well, maybe I should keep that one and burn the rest)
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Jul 9, 2010 00:41
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CmdrSmirnoff posted:(actually Lewis & Clark's stuff was kickin' rad and sold the place well, maybe I should keep that one and burn the rest) I'm really sick of telling people this, and maybe you're just joking, but: Lewis & Clark isn't worth going to UNLESS you're absolutely certain you're interested in environmental justice.
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Jul 9, 2010 00:43
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MoFauxHawk posted:I'm really sick of telling people this, and maybe you're just joking, but: Lewis & Clark isn't worth going to UNLESS you're absolutely certain you're interested in environmental justice. It had a really nice campus okay?
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Jul 9, 2010 00:50
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Had my first bar complaint. That was fun. Mostly BS. Not that we acted totally perfectly, but nothing is an ethical issue that I see. Bar didn't even open a formal investigation, just got a letter telling me to work this out with the client and tell them how the conversation went. Mostly it was just a (successful) attempt by the client to get out of paying our contingency fee.
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Jul 9, 2010 01:22
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CmdrSmirnoff posted:It had a really nice campus okay? I jumped through a lot of hoops for Cornell specifically because I liked their packet. And GULC sent me a Christmas card.
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MoFauxHawk posted:I'm really sick of telling people this, and maybe you're just joking, but: Lewis & Clark isn't worth going to UNLESS you're absolutely certain you're interested in environmental justice.  pro-posting, clear the way. I hope you feel sorry if someone actually winds up going to Louis and Clark because of that
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Kase Im Licht posted:Had my first bar complaint. That was fun. Mostly BS. Not that we acted totally perfectly, but nothing is an ethical issue that I see. Bar didn't even open a formal investigation, just got a letter telling me to work this out with the client and tell them how the conversation went. Mostly it was just a (successful) attempt by the client to get out of paying our contingency fee. Oh that sucks man. Then again, something like 7000 complaints are filed in Texas alone a year and less than a percent are acted upon. Sorry you had to go through that poo poo. He wouldn't negotiate the fee at all?
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Jul 9, 2010 02:02
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CmdrSmirnoff posted:I was cleaning my room today and found all of the brochures and correspondence and offers from various TTTs (including forum favourites Valpo and Cooley I had to fix the email address on my LSAC account the other week (back when I was panicking over my job search and considering doing LSAT tutoring), and now I'm getting all the TTT emails I was getting back then. (no more Columbia packets, though - oh what might have been.) Do they seriously send out the same emails to the same accounts so often?
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Jul 9, 2010 02:11
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I'm going to go practice Lebron law.
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Jul 9, 2010 02:20
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sigmachiev posted:
But really, congrats.
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Jul 9, 2010 03:13
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Is anyone else having really lovely experiences with the Bar/Bri graded essays? I realize they grade harshly, but I keep bombing essays when I have a decent knowledge of the law. My raw score on their simulated MBE was like 50 points higher than their average, but my essays are consistently below average. In my latest graded essay, I got points off for saying that the issue was whether a "covenant not to compete" was enforceable, rather than a "restrictive covenant not to compete." Really? The word "restrictive" is that important? Please tell me the bar examiners aren't that picky. And if not, why the gently caress does Bar/Bri have to stress me out like that? I just realized that the grader didn't even add up the score correctly. Fractions are hard!
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Doibhilin posted:Is anyone else having really lovely experiences with the Bar/Bri graded essays? I realize they grade harshly, but I keep bombing essays when I have a decent knowledge of the law. My raw score on their simulated MBE was like 50 points higher than their average, but my essays are consistently below average. I'll tell you what I keep telling all my friends, and the same advice I didn't listen to when I was studying for that bar: relax. You're going to do fine. No, the bar examiners are not that picky. You do realize that people who need a sticky note to remind them to breathe if they have to talk and walk at the same time also pass the bar right?
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Kase Im Licht posted:Had my first bar complaint. That was fun. Mostly BS. Not that we acted totally perfectly, but nothing is an ethical issue that I see. Bar didn't even open a formal investigation, just got a letter telling me to work this out with the client and tell them how the conversation went. Mostly it was just a (successful) attempt by the client to get out of paying our contingency fee. Ho ho, you popped your cherry!
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Jul 9, 2010 13:20
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Doibhilin posted:Is anyone else having really lovely experiences with the Bar/Bri graded essays? I realize they grade harshly, but I keep bombing essays when I have a decent knowledge of the law. My raw score on their simulated MBE was like 50 points higher than their average, but my essays are consistently below average. BarBri intentionally fails you on the essay practice questions in order to scare you into buying their supplemental essay writing classes. Take their scores with a grain of salt.
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Draile posted:BarBri intentionally fails you on the essay practice questions in order to scare you into buying their supplemental essay writing classes. Take their scores with a grain of salt. Also, it makes you study harder and learn more law. It's tough love from a company you just paid an obscene amount of money to teach you what you thought you'd learn in law school. Phil Moscowitz posted:Ho ho, you popped your cherry! "Business is bad? gently caress you, pay me. Oh, you had a fire? gently caress you, pay me. Place got hit by lightning, huh? gently caress you, pay me."
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Jul 9, 2010 15:16
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Don't make a jerk out of me. Just don't do it.
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Jul 9, 2010 15:46
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One dog goes one way, the other dog goes the other way. And this guy's saying "Whaddaya want from me?" Got a nice head of white hair. It's beautiful.
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Jul 9, 2010 17:52
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Draile posted:BarBri intentionally fails you on the essay practice questions in order to scare you into buying their supplemental essay writing classes. Take their scores with a grain of salt. I didn't bother with the supplemental classes because the grading has seemed so useless so far. My comments are things like "Use relevant and pertinent rules of law." Oh really? That's so helpful, I'm sure my scores will skyrocket once I use your new strategy of writing laws that are relevant to the question.
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Doibhilin posted:Is anyone else having really lovely experiences with the Bar/Bri graded essays? I realize they grade harshly, but I keep bombing essays when I have a decent knowledge of the law. My raw score on their simulated MBE was like 50 points higher than their average, but my essays are consistently below average. After I got sick of the Bar/Bri graders giving failing scores to even good essays, one time I hand-copied their "excellent" sample answer into a bluebook and submitted it. They failed it. The front-office guy was super pissed when I went to complain about this, and even started spouting off about plagiarism. Because, you know, these practice essays are for course credit or whatever.
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Jul 9, 2010 18:59
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Mookie posted:After I got sick of the Bar/Bri graders giving failing scores to even good essays, one time I hand-copied their "excellent" sample answer into a bluebook and submitted it. This is why you get paid the big bucks. Hilarious.
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Mookie posted:After I got sick of the Bar/Bri graders giving failing scores to even good essays, one time I hand-copied their "excellent" sample answer into a bluebook and submitted it. I think every year, in BarBRI classes all around the country, one guy tries to do this to prove a point. Did the timing of how essays were graded change? I remember they always used new questions, so if you submitted an old answer, it wouldn't necessarily correlate. You wouldn't get a model answer until after you got your dismal score back. Or is there a different avenue through which BarBRI grades practice essays?
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TyChan posted:I think every year, in BarBRI classes all around the country, one guy tries to do this to prove a point. In my NY course, they use old questions. You could definitely hand in their sample answer for the same question.
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When I did BarBri, I wrote out the first sample essay they had everyone do, got my low score back, decided it was bullshit and just focused on the multiple choice from that point on. I would have been borderline without the book, but just doing all of the MC in the sections you're weakest in should be enough to pass with a solid margin, as long as you are a good test taker and follow IRAC/make the rule up as appropriate for partial credit during the essays. Two caveats to this: CA may be different (NY was tough, NJ was a joke, but CA is reportedly in another league) and *everyone* is weak in certain areas even if you think you're strong. This applies to things like wills that no one takes in LS and to things like hearsay that no one memorizes correctly in LS. Conversely, I personally got away with almost no real studying in con law and found the MBE questions on it to be pretty New York Times-able, although that was of course a single bar exam five years ago.
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Adar posted:Two caveats to this: CA may be different (NY was tough, NJ was a joke, but CA is reportedly in another league) and *everyone* is weak in certain areas even if you think you're strong. What I heard about California is that while the state is not exceptionally tough with the number of covered subject areas, the graders are much harsher than those in other states and give very little, if any, partial credit if you make a mistake of law. The "make up the rule" tactic does not work nearly as well as it does in New York.
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I passed two bar exams without ever sitting in any BarBri lecture or submitting any sample essays to anyone, I don't get why anyone bothers with that poo poo
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Jul 9, 2010 21:09
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Hey look, even less of a need for new lawyers: Nonlawyer at 9th Circuit Beats Toyota on Trademark Law quote:The Tabaris hired a lawyer. But after the legal bills racked up, they decided to go pro se. Neither one has any legal training. Lisa Tabari said she would read and do research on the case at night and then grab some sleep in the morning while her husband watched their two young daughters.
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deathdrive83 posted:Hey look, even less of a need for new lawyers: If the facts are on your side and you're patient enough to do all the necessary reading and utilize all the available pro se resources, you could be a high school dropout and win cases. Actually getting any money you're entitled to, though? Heh. This is probably painfully obvious, but transactional costs and economies of scale can often work in a pro se party's favor because the other, richer side will find the litigation too costly to continue regardless of whether the pro se party is really doing a good job as his/her own attorney. Sometimes there's no economic incentive in prosecuting or defending a case that well.
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title of article should be "Persian Internet Used Car Dealers Beat Toyota"
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Phil Moscowitz posted:I passed two bar exams without ever sitting in any BarBri lecture or submitting any sample essays to anyone, I don't get why anyone bothers with that poo poo Because they use that oh-so-typical line of "Oh well you're already carrying SOOOO much debt, what's a little extra debt to make sure it wasn't all for nothing?"
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Phil I'm going to be wandering around New Orleans tomorrow we should grab a beer.
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