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Petey posted:From an old helldump thread: no but I want to now gonna go out on a limb and suggest duke and UVA and georgetown are overrepresented in the evil department
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Finally a chance for Northeastern to be in the T14!
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I looked up the fellows from Heritage and CAP, let's see heritage: chicago x3 ohio northern oklahoma city u ohio state george mason regent cap: stanford x2 yale UNC berkeley northeastern harvard columbia (got bored)
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TyChan posted:If it's so enjoyable, why do you want to be a lawyer? tau posted:Being an attorney is the tops. Incidentally, the attorneys I work for were kind enough to divulge the wisdom as to what is best in law school life: to sit in the front of every class, to always raise my hand to answer questions and to bring a roller-bag to carry all of my books. What great advice! 
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Green Crayons posted:I get paid in peanuts. No real room for advancement. Firm I work for is pressuring hard on staff's billable and collectable goals, but since our major trial in Jan/Feb work has been pretty sparse. Additionally, and most importantly, having seen what litigation attorneys actually do on a daily basis and feeling that I would enjoy the legal world from that position rather than from the outside/periphery looking in, I'm hoping that: You know, even though this is probably still an Objectively Dumb Decision at least you're not a self-admitted lib arts major who's going class of 2013 because he needs to do something and he knows things are bad but that doesn't matter because the bad things will magically only happen to other people. Also, Petey, do you still have a link to Goons.txt. I tried googling but only found Goons.doc. It's just not the same, surely you understand. 
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Linguica posted:I looked up the fellows from Heritage and CAP, let's see awesome, sent.
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I had my first shouting match over the phone with opposing counsel earlier this week. He insinuated that I was too young of a lawyer to know how to negotiate properly, and I insinuated that my client would be more willing to settle if his client's defense didn't rest entirely on case law decided in the Mesozoic era (which was apparently the last time opposing counsel cracked a book). All of this for a case where the amount in controversy is so small I've fantasized about just paying my client's claim myself just so I wouldn't have to deal with the case again. In conclusion, tau posted:Being an attorney is the tops.
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Good news for me, bad news for would-be biglaw associates. Current project has me doing some substantive work. I was in Lexis doing legal research today. There's been idle chatter about having me draft something if they run out of boring crap for me to do (they probably won't, but the fact that they're thinking about it is interesting). Maybe just a weird outlier. Maybe a sign of things to come. In the future, the only lawyers with jobs will either be a partner or Its weird to have to think. Thought about demanding more money for it, but I'm just happy to be doing something real and don't want to make waves. Kase Im Licht fucked around with this message at 04:25 on Jul 23, 2010 |
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Linguica posted:I looked up the fellows from Heritage and CAP, let's see Could you tell me what these words mean
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J Miracle posted:Could you tell me what these words mean Smart people. Real smart. At least eleven times smarter than the smartest person at a TTT, and probably twice as smart as those lower T14 kids.
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Gadamer posted:Has anyone here gone to grad school before going to law school? I did. I start law school in a month, so I don't have much law school insight yet to contrast with my grad school experience. What did you want to know?
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BigHead posted:Smart people. Real smart. At least eleven times smarter than the smartest person at a TTT, and probably twice as smart as those lower T14 kids. Yet they went to law school. Lies and slander.
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Leon Kowalski posted:I did. I start law school in a month, so I don't have much law school insight yet to contrast with my grad school experience. Why. God, why? Unless you're getting a free ride by virtue of your pre-existing PhD in hard sciences, which you aren't using because you decided you hated hard sciences and you're hoping you can backdoor into patent law.
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Articling (and OCI I guess) Call Day is literally the worst day in law school
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I was reading through megathread 7 because I have nothing to do at work and this poo poo is hilarious. it's from before the economy cratered and all the current 2Ls-3Ls-recent grads were so full of hope and promise. This is probably my favourite post in the whole thread, though:CaptainScraps posted:
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Post more highlights for us poors without archives
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Neon Belly fucked around with this message at 22:45 on Aug 1, 2016 |
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Gadamer posted:I was given a full ride to the masters program at my old school for economics. I would like to go to law school, but my GPA isn't all that great (I just happened to have a 4.0 in my econ courses). When applying, did they care about your undergraduate grades, or did they focus more on your graduate? I can do the econ masters in under a year, so if that could take me from a T2/low T1 to a possible T14, it seems absolutely worth it. undergrad (those are the ones that get reported to US News)
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Why are people still asking that same stupid question over and over.
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Neon Belly fucked around with this message at 22:46 on Aug 1, 2016 |
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It's like... I can't figure out that grades are immensely inflated in grad programs, and would thus be a poor metric for admissions, yet I want to be a lawyer and stack paper to the ceiling.
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billion dollar bitch posted:It's like... *in this sentence 'paper' refers to discovery documents you need to read by Tuesday
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Neon Belly fucked around with this message at 22:46 on Aug 1, 2016 |
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Jul 23, 2010 14:49
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*asks thread for advice on a question that's been asked a dozen times* *gets the same advice that's been given that same dozen times* *bridles at the justification given for this answer* *disregards this answer based on this other guy who went somewhere and did something* *goes to Touro Law School*
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Neon Belly fucked around with this message at 22:46 on Aug 1, 2016 |
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Jul 23, 2010 15:00
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Why not read through 84 pages of posts? It can be practice for being a Real Law Student.
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Neon Belly fucked around with this message at 22:46 on Aug 1, 2016 |
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billion dollar bitch posted:Why not read through 84 pages of posts? It can be practice for being a I think this is more appropriate these days.
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Gadamer posted:Because I don't care how many chicken sandwiches you've had ALL THIS INFORMATION IS RELEVANT TO THE WAY OF THE LAW STUDENT!
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CmdrSmirnoff posted:Articling (and OCI I guess) Call Day is literally the worst day in law school How did it go for you? I thought you were just doing Ottawa? How many interviews?
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Gadamer posted:...Half of the grades at Harvard are As and 91% of 2003 graduating seniors graduated with honors. Grade inflation? No way. I don't really get the whole grade inflation complaint when it comes to schools like Harvard. Is it so difficult to believe that half of the kids who were able to get into Harvard are turning in A-quality work?
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I just want everyone who posts a "HAY GUYS CAN I GO TO LAW SCHOOL" to have taken a practice LSAT and to have their undergrad GPA ready.
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soj89 posted:How did it go for you? I thought you were just doing Ottawa? How many interviews? 3 interviews out of 12 apps, which is a crazy good ratio considering a couple friends got 0/80some. Got a downtown Toronto prosecution gig but the Department of Justice rejected me  How'd you do?
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Holland Oats posted:I don't really get the whole grade inflation complaint when it comes to schools like Harvard. Is it so difficult to believe that half of the kids who were able to get into Harvard are turning in A-quality work? Depends on if you consider A/B/C/D/F grades to be against some universal absolute scale, or indexed against the student body of the class or institution awarding them. If the former, then yes, the 50%+ number makes sense. However, I think most people assume that grades should follow the latter model, (i.e. a "C" at Harvard doesn't mean the same as a "C" at Joe's School for the Semi-Literate).
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Neon Belly fucked around with this message at 22:46 on Aug 1, 2016 |
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Gadamer posted:LSAT 171, GRE 800 Math/740 Verbal, 3.1 GPA. Guess I'm going to Valpo. nobody cares about your GRE either
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Gadamer posted:LSAT 171, GRE 800 Math/740 Verbal, 3.1 GPA. Guess I'm going to Valpo. Decent chance of getting in Vanderbilt, USC, BU, GW
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Soothing Vapors posted:I was reading through megathread 7 because I have nothing to do at work and this poo poo is hilarious. it's from before the economy cratered and all the current 2Ls-3Ls-recent grads were so full of hope and promise. This is probably my favourite post in the whole thread, though: I really miss 22-year-old Captainscraps  Gadamer posted:I would like to think that an A at a top university is harder to get than an A at University of Flyover State Satellite Campus. Your GPA indicates to me that you're going to gently caress up law school. Law school success isn't about how smart you are; it's about EFFORT. It's about persistence, about studying until your eyes burn and really caring about this poo poo. That's what defense practice is like; putting in a whole lot of loving effort. billion dollar bitch posted:It's like... I have tried to stack paper to the ceiling. I get told to clean up my desk when it reaches 3 feet high. G-Mawwwwwww fucked around with this message at 16:10 on Jul 23, 2010 |
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