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Elotana posted:If someone asks me the stairs question I generally put on a poker face, that masonic poo poo is lame as hell One time I was early to a bar review outing and while waiting for some of my law school friends to arrive, a random person came up to me and asked if I had stairs in my house. Law students: we wait for one another awkwardly, looking like goons.
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J Miracle posted:What it's easy just figure out if a reg is content-based or content-neutral, if its a viewpoint reg; time place and manner restriction, protected or unprotected speech, level of scrutiny and you're done! Possibly apply specific tests for commercial speech, fighting words, obscenity, incitement, and probably some other poo poo I'm forgetting. Remember that nonverbal poo poo can be speech unless its conduct. Also some poo poo about strip clubs. Oh, I didn't mean that I think it's terribly complex or anything, but I despise this case law. "And all you do is follow this basic formula and voila," "Uh, sir, if you use the rationale you just cited and apply it to the facts of the case, you don't get the court's result," *Sound of Antonin Scalia taking a clerk out back and shooting him*
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Daico posted:Oh, I didn't mean that I think it's terribly complex or anything, but I despise this case law. "And all you do is follow this basic formula and voila," "Uh, sir, if you use the rationale you just cited and apply it to the facts of the case, you don't get the court's result," *Sound of Antonin Scalia taking a clerk out back and shooting him* He's my clerk pa, I'll take care of him.
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JudicialRestraints posted:He's my clerk pa, I'll take care of him. And you'd better loving look him RIGHT IN THE EYES when you do, because the Confrontation Clause demands nothing less.
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CaptainScraps posted:Comedy answer: There's always a motion. Worse is when they introduce themselves by username
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J Miracle posted:What it's easy just figure out if a reg is content-based or content-neutral, if its a viewpoint reg; time place and manner restriction, protected or unprotected speech, level of scrutiny and you're done! Possibly apply specific tests for commercial speech, fighting words, obscenity, incitement, and probably some other poo poo I'm forgetting. Remember that nonverbal poo poo can be speech unless its conduct. Also some poo poo about strip clubs. You forgot company-town doctrine.
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JudicialRestraints posted:Send me an application. I will share it with Yojimbo, Thoras and Absentia http://www.govguamdocs.com/doa/docs/DOA_EmploymentApplicationForm_02-10.pdf For position of Attorney, listing #DOA148-09, posted 12/07/09.
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Abugadu posted:http://www.govguamdocs.com/doa/docs/DOA_EmploymentApplicationForm_02-10.pdf I'm assuming this isn't a 2L summer job? I'm trying to convince some unemployedish 3L friends to apply.
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JudicialRestraints posted:I'm assuming this isn't a 2L summer job? I'm trying to convince some unemployedish 3L friends to apply. Yeah, for 2L summer job, it'd be with the local Superior Court. PM me for details on that. Can't guarantee anything, though, I thought I had S_A_M a summer job, but it turns out the chief justice here has something against T14 schools. But on the other hand, the staff attorney owes us one for putting up with their abortion of an extern for this entire summer.
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What's the best place to buy furniture in NYC? I'm doing my CLS move-in tomorrow and I need to pick up pretty much everything for my unfurnished apartment. I don't really have a ton of money.
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I'm not sure if this is the best place to ask, but figured I'd try the megathread before creating a separate thread. I want to get an overview of how the British legal system works, and of British law. What are the best textbooks for someone completely ignorant of how the law works but wanting to end up with fairly detailed knowledge? In particular, covering things that form part of the CPE.
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Holland Oats posted:What's the best place to buy furniture in NYC? I'm doing my CLS move-in tomorrow and I need to pick up pretty much everything for my unfurnished apartment. I don't really have a ton of money. Just go around the city looking for stuff that people have discarded on the sidewalk.
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Holland Oats posted:What's the best place to buy furniture in NYC? I'm doing my CLS move-in tomorrow and I need to pick up pretty much everything for my unfurnished apartment. I don't really have a ton of money. Craigslist/Ikea in Brooklyn. You're too late to capitalize on the poo poo that graduating undergrads leave behind.
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Holland Oats posted:What's the best place to buy furniture in NYC? I'm doing my CLS move-in tomorrow and I need to pick up pretty much everything for my unfurnished apartment. I don't really have a ton of money. The answer is always, always, Ikea.
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So I'm taking my ConLaw II-First Amendment final today [really, Daico? We couldn't guess from the earlier poo poo posting...) and I arrive to have the professor's assistant tell me Professor Procrastinator was finishing up the final this morning and accidentally deleted it. So I'm sitting here waiting while he rewrites it. His assistant said she figured he'd be done in fifteen minutes or so, but that was thirty minutes ago.
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Daico posted:So I'm taking my ConLaw II-First Amendment final today [really, Daico? We couldn't guess from the earlier poo poo posting...) and I arrive to have the professor's assistant tell me Professor Procrastinator was finishing up the final this morning and accidentally deleted it. Does your law school have walls? E: or ABA accreditation?
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JudicialRestraints posted:Does your law school have walls? UTexas? I'm pretty sure we're accredited. God in heaven, I hope we're accredited, I knew the tuition was too good to be true.
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Daico posted:UTexas? I'm pretty sure we're accredited. God in heaven, I hope we're accredited, I knew the tuition was too good to be true. Just study for the baby bar and you'll be fine. You won't be able to practice out of state, but Texas is a big state and I'm sure that there are plenty of employers who will look favorably upon your scrappy education.
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Daico posted:UTexas? I'm pretty sure we're accredited. God in heaven, I hope we're accredited, I knew the tuition was too good to be true. Man, if we're not accredited, SMU, Baylor, Texas Tech, U Houston, South Texas College of Law, St. Mary's, TWU and Thurgood Marshall are going to throw up their hands in celebration. drat it, I know I'm missing one.
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I got another articling interview for next week with a lawyer who, from what I gather, is basically Maury Levy. One step closer to living The Wire. 
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CmdrSmirnoff posted:I got another articling interview for next week with a lawyer who, from what I gather, is basically Maury Levy. You do realise that maury levy was a morally grotesque piece of poo poo, right? The show wasn't exactly full of of moral excellence, but maury levy managed to combine "ought to know better" with the worst aspects of the show.
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I'm sorry if this makes me a dim bulb but what the hell is "articling"
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Canadian post-law school apprenticeship if I'm not mistaken
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Lykourgos posted:You do realise that maury levy was a morally grotesque piece of poo poo, right? The show wasn't exactly full of of moral excellence, but maury levy managed to combine "ought to know better" with the worst aspects of the show. Yes, but given the options of a) looking for articles god-knows-where during the school year, or b) getting criminal law experience hustlin' with the dregs of society, I'll happily take B. That said, I also have interviews on the other side of the bench Monday and, if offered both, will take the prosecution gig. edit: yes, articling is a requirement in some provinces before we can be licensed. It's a paid, 10 month work program.
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Lykourgos posted:You do realise that maury levy was a morally grotesque piece of poo poo, right? The show wasn't exactly full of of moral excellence, but maury levy managed to combine "ought to know better" with the worst aspects of the show. Oh give it a rest already
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Oh I see so it's like clerking basically but required...I think that's a good idea honestly, it's kind of mind-boggling that it's POSSIBLE, at least at my school, to graduate having done no clinics, no externships/internships, no real legal work at all. There's a requirement of like one "skills" class but you could take Will Drafting or something and then go out and try to practice law having never even seen a motion or written a brief since first year writing class.
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CmdrSmirnoff posted:Yes, but given the options of a) looking for articles god-knows-where during the school year, or b) getting criminal law experience hustlin' with the dregs of society, I'll happily take B. That's understandable then; it's dirty and shameful work, but academia is also a kind of rank filth that is hard to accept. Good luck on the prosecution position, maybe you can dodge both bullets. J Miracle posted:Oh I see so it's like clerking basically but required...I think that's a good idea honestly, it's kind of mind-boggling that it's POSSIBLE, at least at my school, to graduate having done no clinics, no externships/internships, no real legal work at all. There's a requirement of like one "skills" class but you could take Will Drafting or something and then go out and try to practice law having never even seen a motion or written a brief since first year writing class. Pretty sure Indiana University doesn't require students to have summer jobs or attend clinics, and I know people from other schools who similarly had no requirements. I can't imagine graduating without doing them, either, though. If law schools were actually interested in creating lawyers, I assume the bulk of your tuition would involve these sorts of thing.
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Phil Moscowitz posted:Oh give it a rest already That's what tipped you over the edge?
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2 firms that I had 2L OCI's with are returning for 3L OCIs. Both firms I feel like I came really close--one firm I had TWO callbacks and then they ended up not having a summer associate program that year at all, and the other firm I had a callback plus an invite to a fancy dinner with single malt scotch and lobster (OK it was a state bar business law section annual meeting but there WAS Scotch and lobster). The second firm also, to my knowledge, only hired diversity candidates for their summer associate program. Am I wrong to be kind of excited about this? I mean they had to like me somewhat, didn't they? On the other hand, the fact that I didn't have an SA position this summer can't exactly be a mark in my favor, can it? So many questions...
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J Miracle posted:2 firms that I had 2L OCI's with are returning for 3L OCIs. Both firms I feel like I came really close--one firm I had TWO callbacks and then they ended up not having a summer associate program that year at all, and the other firm I had a callback plus an invite to a fancy dinner with single malt scotch and lobster (OK it was a state bar business law section annual meeting but there WAS Scotch and lobster). The second firm also, to my knowledge, only hired diversity candidates for their summer associate program. Am I wrong to be kind of excited about this? I mean they had to like me somewhat, didn't they? On the other hand, the fact that I didn't have an SA position this summer can't exactly be a mark in my favor, can it? I didn't bother signing up this year, I'd rather spend those hours planning a unique and exciting suicide
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Soothing Vapors posted:I didn't bother signing up this year, [sic] I'd rather spend those hours planning a unique and exciting suicide Do the thing like in Die Hard where you stand with an offensive sign in a poor neighborhood.
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billion dollar bitch posted:Do the thing like in Die Hard where you stand with an offensive sign in a poor neighborhood. Why not a sign like "A JD is a golden ticket to wealth!" at a graduation?
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Don't [sic] people, it makes you look like a pretentious dickwad and trust me karma is a bitch and eventually someone will do it to you and you will suffer heaps of scorn and ridicule from your peers
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Phil Moscowitz posted:Don't [sic] people, it makes you look like a pretentious dickwad and trust me karma is a bitch and eventually someone will do it to you and you will suffer heaps of scorn and ridicule from your peers But I like quoting opposing counsel's documents as much as possible and I don't want the judge to think I'm dumb 
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billion dollar bitch posted:Do the thing like in Die Hard where you stand with an offensive sign in a poor neighborhood. I liked how in the TV version they changed it to "I HATE EVERYBODY"
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Ainsley McTree posted:I liked how in the TV version they changed it to "I HATE EVERYBODY"
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True story, I was assaulted today at work. FUN FUN
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billion dollar bitch posted:When the ship sinks, they throw the cargo over first to save the crew. (not [sic] to be a dick or anything [sic]) billion dollar bitch posted:no [sic] man if you use it you're totally gangsta [sic] billion dollar bitch posted:stop [sic] going and see how long it takes for them to stop paying you. billion dollar bitch posted:What a stupid interview. I wouldn't work for that company anyways; they seem like dicks [sic] billion dollar bitch posted:yeah [sic], since apparently people don't interpret it in the limited way the case was actually decided. billion dollar bitch posted:I dunno - [sic] it could be that she's just not a dick. also, if you're going to be the type of twat that uses it, [sic] should be italicized, you goddamn law school piece of poo poo <3 Soothing Vapors fucked around with this message at 22:27 on Aug 6, 2010 |
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Roger_Mudd posted:True story, I was assaulted today at work. FUN FUN Thank you for not boring us with the details
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