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CaptainScraps posted:But I like quoting opposing counsel's documents as much as possible and I don't want the judge to think I'm dumb Some opposing counsel douche was quoting a brief I wrote and he [sic]ed all this stuff that wasn't wrong and it was fuckin infuriating. so that's a way to go with it.
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Roger_Mudd posted:True story, I was assaulted today at work. FUN FUN Stories! C'mon, dish.
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CaptainScraps posted:Stories! C'mon, dish. Sorry I guess that was douche, my boss assaulted me (no lasting physical damage). I'd rather not give too many details as I might file with the police. I'm convinced she's a psychopath and a bit worried for my family at this point :/
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billion dollar bitch posted:Fair enough. I stand corrected. Dont be having a go at him guys. BDB's really a p cool dude and he even lent me earplugs for an exam but i didnt much care for them; too soft + i could hear the beating of my heart which made me conscious of the fact that one day i will die and that despite this I'm wasting time taking a property exam
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Roger_Mudd posted:Sorry I guess that was douche, my boss assaulted me (no lasting physical damage). I'd rather not give too many details as I might file with the police. Jesus dude, that sucks. I dodged a stapler when I was an undergrad clerk. Sue the bitch. Alternately, if she gets in close, a properly thrown elbow will break whatever it hits. G-Mawwwwwww fucked around with this message at 22:52 on Aug 6, 2010 |
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Aug 6, 2010 22:50
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evilweasel posted:The answer is always, always, Ikea. The Brooklyn Ikea has an average 1 1/2 star review on Google so apparently it's an awful place.
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Feces Starship posted:Dont be having a go at him guys. BDB's really a p cool dude and he even lent me earplugs for an exam but i didnt much care for them; too soft + i could hear the beating of my heart which made me conscious of the fact that one day i will die and that despite this I'm wasting time taking a property exam Fun story: I know someone who worked at a bank who had a metal trash can thrown at their head. Fortunately they were nimble. Good luck with not letting your family die.
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Holland Oats posted:The Brooklyn Ikea has an average 1 1/2 star review on Google so apparently it's an awful place. 1 1/2 stars is pretty high class for Brooklyn.
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Aug 6, 2010 23:57
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Holland Oats posted:The Brooklyn Ikea has an average 1 1/2 star review on Google so apparently it's an awful place. Nah, it's not that bad. Bit of a wait to it but my girlfriend decked out our apartment plumb severe for not much cash. You should remember however that you either need to pay an arm and a leg for delivery if you don't have your own method for hauling out your things. It's best if you have a bro with a truck or an SUV to help.
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CaptainScraps posted: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. UNT law school 
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GamingHyena posted:UNT law school Hahahaha that's right, the law school that passed and doesn't have funding. gently caress it GH, want to go apply as professors?
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CaptainScraps posted:Jesus dude, that sucks. I dodged a stapler when I was an undergrad clerk. The best part was when the CEO blamed me for it. I resigned. 
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Roger_Mudd posted:The best part was when the CEO blamed me for it. I resigned. Eagerly awaiting details once your giant settlement goes through http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3331164
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Summer associate 10-week fattening up program over. I have an offer; please tell me why this is a bad thing and why I should feel bad about myself
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qwertyman posted:Summer associate 10-week fattening up program over. I have an offer; please tell me why this is a bad thing and why I should feel bad about myself it's not at all motherfuckers told me that I had no reason not to worry about getting an offer in my final review so why not just give me the drat thing now so I can relax instead of waiting till next week Also, it's time for hitting the gym every day to get rid of this gut I've developed.
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Any opinions on new vs. used textbooks? There are some people on TLS saying they've heard to only use new books so you can mark everything up yourself. I suppose that makes sense...but I could get more bottles of whiskey each semester with the money I save on used books.
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Iridox posted:Any opinions on new vs. used textbooks? There are some people on TLS saying they've heard to only use new books so you can mark everything up yourself. I suppose that makes sense...but I could get more bottles of whiskey each semester with the money I save on used books. Yeah, I mean who wants a book that already has all of the pertinent information for the class highlighted and noted? poo poo, I'd much rather pay extra for the privilege of wasting hours of my life doing that myself.
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GamingHyena posted:Yeah, I mean who wants a book that already has all of the pertinent information for the class highlighted and noted? poo poo, I'd much rather pay extra for the privilege of wasting hours of my life doing that myself. This. Get used, always. You save money, AND get it premarked. You are going to spend the time re-highlighting anyway when you make your outline. You'll absorb it better if you already know what to look for in class when you're getting it the first time.
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GamingHyena posted:Yeah, I mean who wants a book that already has all of the pertinent information for the class highlighted and noted? poo poo, I'd much rather pay extra for the privilege of wasting hours of my life doing that myself. Counterpoint - I tend to get my used textbooks from people who highlight like they have an extra chromosome. Not every textbook was previously owned by the half blood prince.
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evilweasel posted:it's not at all Congrats. They gave me an offer with two days left in the program and all but explicitly encouraged me to pretty much take the last two days off. I don't think I showed up before 10 either day. Course, the curtain will fall when I go back in a year or so, but the people there seemed to genuinely enjoy working with each other (for the most part) and we had a loving awesome class and hung out together outside the firm all the time.
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qwertyman posted:Congrats. They gave me an offer with two days left in the program and all but explicitly encouraged me to pretty much take the last two days off. I don't think I showed up before 10 either day. My last day I literally had finished all my work so I hosed around until 2:30 and then left early.
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GamingHyena posted:Yeah, I mean who wants a book that already has all of the pertinent information for the class highlighted and noted? poo poo, I'd much rather pay extra for the privilege of wasting hours of my life doing that myself. Reading books where every second word is highlighted is irritating and distracting, I have no idea how people find that helpful
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JudicialRestraints posted:Counterpoint - I tend to get my used textbooks from people who highlight like they have an extra chromosome. Not every textbook was previously owned by the half blood prince. Unless you're buying the book online, you can almost always flip through the book before you buy it. If some retard painted the book yellow with highlighter, just get another one.
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GamingHyena posted:Unless you're buying the book online, you can almost always flip through the book before you buy it. If some retard painted the book yellow with highlighter, just get another one. I buy online and it's more like "highlighting nonsensical dicta" or "highlighting random parts of the fact pattern"
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There must be some 0L book that says "highlight facts in orange, holding in purple etc." I seem to see that.
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JudicialRestraints posted:I buy online and it's more like "highlighting nonsensical dicta" or "highlighting random parts of the fact pattern" That's why it only matters for 2L books and onward. For 1L books that's why you have casenotes/hornbooks/barbri review, etc.
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JudicialRestraints posted:I buy online and it's more like "highlighting nonsensical dicta" or "highlighting random parts of the fact pattern" Maybe you should reconsider buying online then? It seems like buying used textbooks locally would be the best of both worlds. You avoid paying full price for a textbook you'll never use again plus you get to see the condition of the book before you buy. Edit: On a related note, remember why you're buying the book in the first place. If you're buying a law school textbook to acquire information, you're doing law school wrong. Textbooks (and normally classes), especially you're 1L year, are designed to get you to "think like a lawyer" aka confuse the poo poo out of you with stupid rear end hypos that the professor never adequately answers. What you need to know to ace the exam is going to come from supplements and outlines. That said, the actual purpose of buying a law school textbook is to easily access information when called upon in class. This is why having good highlighting is important, so your hungover rear end can quickly find the meat of Justice Bozo's dissent that you didn't read for your 8:00am torts class. This is why a well highlighted/noted book is so important, and why I always looked books over before I bought them. GamingHyena fucked around with this message at 20:06 on Aug 7, 2010 |
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JudicialRestraints posted:Counterpoint - I tend to get my used textbooks from people who highlight like they have an extra chromosome. Not every textbook was previously owned by the half blood prince. Tetrix posted:There must be some 0L book that says "highlight facts in orange, holding in purple etc." I seem to see that. Yeah, I think it's Law School Confidential or Planet Law School or one of those that contains the crazy 4-colour highlighting system that every 1L adheres to for, like, the first three weeks
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qwertyman posted:Summer associate 10-week fattening up program over. I have an offer; please tell me why this is a bad thing and why I should feel bad about myself evilweasel posted:it's not at all Finished my 13-week getting ripped as gently caress fed job Friday. I won't know if I have an offer for months, though. HiddenReplaced fucked around with this message at 17:38 on Aug 8, 2010 |
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People actually use multiple highlighter colors? (Then again, I'm still in undergrad)
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GregNorc posted:People actually use multiple highlighter colors? I did this. Then again, ask any of the posters from my school, I'm kinda broken in the head. (p.s. it's actually a good idea but you shouldn't obsess over it. I just highlight important facts in yellow and the takeaway message in orange. Blue is occasionally used for discussing precedent but I normally don't give enough of a poo poo for that.)
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I didn't highlight, underline, or any of that poo poo. I also didn't really even open my books.
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GregNorc posted:People actually use multiple highlighter colors? I never really highlighted at all. If I really wanted to remember something about a case I'd make a note of it, but I usually didn't read and if something came up in class it would be in my class notes.
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This year I'm just going to pop the cases into Westlaw and steal the headnotes.
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GregNorc posted:Has anyone made a program that will convert law documents to hypertext? That poo poo should be so cash, especially since they reference other areas of the document/other documents so loving often.
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CaptainScraps posted:This year I'm just going to pop the cases into Westlaw and steal the headnotes. I like the Lexis briefs better normally.
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Baruch Obamawitz posted:I also didn't really even open my books. Each semester, I would tear out each page of each textbook and stuff a mattress with the paper and some hickory chips. I then slept on the mattress, every night. During pre-finals week, I used the contents of the mattress to slow roast a suckling pig, while breathing deeply of the smoke. Before each final, I would eat two pork sandwiches. Worked fine for me.
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The whole 4-color highlight system for textbooks is kinda overdoing it. Using different highlights for a textbook can be a good idea, but I mostly use it to either break up huge slabs of text into two or more fairly independent parts, or because I'm too lazy to look for green highlight or whatever it was I used last time. JudicialRestraints posted:I did this. Then again, ask any of the posters from my school, I'm kinda broken in the head. I did the exact same thing, including blue for precedent. However, I used pink/orange for facts/takeaway. 
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