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You know what? Honestly, I would much rather have an emailed than a mailed rejection letter. It's faster. You don't have that hangtime when you're waiting, thinking, oh, maybe firm X likes me, after all, they haven't rejected me. But then you get the letter in the mail and realize that there was a period of time when you were hoping and they had already said no to you.
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Rural Alaska DA trip report Number 5: After clerking for a rural Alaskan judge for exactly one week, I am officially an expert on A) the "I did I did I did the Iditarod Trail"* race, including the minutia of when the Iditarod Trail Committee can kick a musher out in the middle of the race because he's a goddamn loving [redacted]. and B) EVERY loving POST CONVICTION loving PETITION ever. Including someone whining about their loving over-the-counter [redacted] being confiscated after they personally rioted and caused serious insurrection. Let me add, however, that clerking for an appellate judge is far more awesome than writing briefs in law school. A) These are real issues with real people and real money; B) I need to be at my desk for at least 7.5 hours a day, which somehow makes writing appellate memos at least marginally interesting; and C) my fellow clerks are awesome and we all understand the exact predicament (hating law school) we are all currently in. Separate quote: SWATJester posted:And yet, the doctors still bitch about malpractice insurance costs. Yes it's the doctors driving up insurance costs. It couldn't possibly be the insurance company, they're the epitome of good-hearted egalitarianism. The Doctors are the ones demanding $350k/yr down payments on med-mal insurance. You aniled it right on the head. Edit: Not only did you nail it on the head, you analed it on the head (both gay). As a gay man, I am allowed to not only keep that typo, I am allowed to emphasize it. *If you don't know where this quote is from then you are no true Alaskan (I'm looking at you Ainsley) BigHead fucked around with this message at 09:36 on Aug 21, 2010 |
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Aug 21, 2010 09:21
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Tetrix posted:gently caress that HERE I COME Got get 'em, killer.
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BigHead posted:Rural Alaska DA trip report Number 5: Notice how I said "Doctors bitch about" not "Doctors drive up". Insurance companies are scum, but they are scum in collusion with doctors. Doctors can go ahead and suck a big fat dick any time they complain about insurance rates while they go ahead and bill the insurance company for $2000 for a 5 minute treatment that they can do in their sleep.
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SWATJester posted:Doctors can go ahead and suck a big fat dick any time they complain about insurance rates while they go ahead and bill the insurance company for $2000 for a 5 minute treatment that they can do in their sleep. Hahahaha yes this is a reasonable position to take. Doctors are not paragons of nobility, but demonizing them is just as silly.
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entris posted:Hahahaha yes this is a reasonable position to take. Stick to demonizing insurance companies because they're loving scum. I really need to start amending bad faith denial of claims against them.
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entris posted:Hahahaha yes this is a reasonable position to take. I'm not demonizing them. I'm saying I have no sympathy for them when they boohoo about having to pay ridiculous insurance rates; yet they refuse to self-police their peers to an extent that makes even the legal field (which is pretty bad about self-policing) look awful; AND they can afford the rates multiple times over, AND the insurance is for something like protecting the public from harm from being butchered by lovely doctoring.
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SWATJester posted:I'm not demonizing them. I'm saying I have no sympathy for them when they boohoo about having to pay ridiculous insurance rates; yet they refuse to self-police their peers to an extent that makes even the legal field (which is pretty bad about self-policing) look awful; AND they can afford the rates multiple times over, AND the insurance is for something like protecting the public from harm from being butchered by lovely doctoring. ...you definitely present a neutral, and well-balanced perspective on the medical profession. I eagerly await your careful, well-reasoned analysis of health care reform. NOT.
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entris posted:...you definitely present a neutral, and well-balanced perspective on the medical profession. I eagerly await your careful, well-reasoned analysis of health care reform. Yes because med/mal and health care reform are the same thing.
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SWATJester posted:Notice how I said "Doctors bitch about" not "Doctors drive up". Insurance companies are scum, but they are scum in collusion with doctors. Yeah I noticed I completely lacked reading comprehension about 5 minutes after I posted.
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Hey so for those who missed it I started working at the DC office of an AmLaw 100 law firm in May of this year...
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terrorist ambulance posted:Hey so for those who missed it I started working at the DC office of an AmLaw 100 law firm in May of this year... I really don't mean to rag on her but... http://awfulyearbook.com/user/view/48080?pic=12066 Yeah, I wonder if there's more to the story...
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Can you draw her in ascii for those of us who never intend to sign up for ayb even to lurk
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SWATJester posted:Yes because med/mal and health care reform are the same thing. You just seem to have a pretty big chip on your shoulder re: doctors.
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terrorist ambulance posted:Can you draw her in ascii for those of us who never intend to sign up for ayb even to lurk It was a picture of me when I was 22 sticking my tongue out, pretending I was going to lick butter from a little serving tub at a restaurant I was eating at. It's extraordinarily old and I honestly didn't even realize I still had an AYB. I didn't realize this was the purpose of the Lawyer & Law School Megathread. However, I'll quietly accept your mocking since I should have known better than to ask advice from goons. My situation just sucked and I really didn't want to shell out money for a legal consultation if I was wasting my time. But again, I should have considered my audience better. Biskies fucked around with this message at 22:48 on Aug 21, 2010 |
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entris posted:You just seem to have a pretty big chip on your shoulder re: doctors. get a bill from them and see if you don't, too. Biskies posted:It was a picture of me when I was 22 sticking my tongue out, pretending I was going to lick butter from a little serving tub at a restaurant I was eating at. It's extraordinarily old and I honestly didn't even realize I still had an AYB. after you're done wiping away your tears, please post the picture so we can see it. It will be legally significant if your boss has bad taste, in addition to being ill-raised.
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Lykourgos posted:get a bill from them and see if you don't, too. One of the clerks in my office has a job that solely consists of negotiating down medical bills. His stories have taught me that medical bills are loving almost completely arbitrary. Wooooo.
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Lawyers complaining about doctors is just as ignorant as doctors complaining about lawyers.
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CaptainScraps posted:One of the clerks in my office has a job that solely consists of negotiating down medical bills. I'd say they are sometimes outright malicious. What's that? yes the aspirin costs a hundred dollars because it was touched by my highly trained finger tips ok
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entris posted:Lawyers complaining about doctors is just as ignorant as doctors complaining about lawyers. Just got a report back from state regulation and licensing. Turns out my cousin's doctor was trying to drug her and rape her. He had done the same thing in three other states only to be shuffled off with a slap on the wrist. Doctors.
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Lykourgos posted:What's that? yes the aspirin costs a hundred dollars because it was touched by my highly trained finger tips ok I'm sure that happens all the time  JudicialRestraints posted:Just got a report back from state regulation and licensing. Turns out my cousin's doctor was trying to drug her and rape her. He had done the same thing in three other states only to be shuffled off with a slap on the wrist. I was going to give you a similar anecdote involving a lawyer but then I realized that everyone in this thread already thinks lawyers are scum. Also, I think you guys are so anti-doctor because you thrive on tearing down professions, and law has already been sufficiently debased so of course medicine is next. Afterwards we will attack the character of architects. Anyway let's talk about Kagan getting confirmed on the court. Judicially inexperienced liberal with a leftist/gay agenda or a breath of fresh air? Or, just more perpetuation of the HYS dominance on the court?
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entris posted:I'm sure that happens all the time 195,000 dead a year from medical malpractice. What are the numbers like for lawyers again? I do all my medicine pro se 
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entris posted:I'm sure that happens all the time quote:I was going to give you a similar anecdote involving a lawyer but then I realized that everyone in this thread already thinks lawyers are scum. Also, I think you guys are so anti-doctor because you thrive on tearing down professions, and law has already been sufficiently debased so of course medicine is next. Afterwards we will attack the character of architects. What the gently caress do architects do anyway? Leif. fucked around with this message at 01:24 on Aug 22, 2010 |
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entris posted:I'm sure that happens all the time No, it literally does. Check the bill next time you get an aspirin. A quick google brings up things like this http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,995200-2,00.html quote:You've heard of the $10 aspirin? It's that pricey because hospitals mark up costs an average of 232%--as much as 673% at the 100 priciest institutions, according to a recent study by the Institute for Health and Socio-Economic Policy. But there's nothing quite like getting the bill first hand.
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So I'm one week into law school and I don't hate my life. Things have exceeded my expectations quite nicely.
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entris posted:I'm sure that happens all the time
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Holland Oats posted:So I'm one week into law school and I don't hate my life. Things have exceeded my expectations quite nicely. If you didn't already hate academia from experience with lib arts undergrad/high school, then going to law school isn't going to do anything. The hatred for a lot of people is only going to start after you work your first summer job, and realise in a very real, face to face manner how worthless law school is.
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SWATJester posted:What the gently caress do architects do anyway? God drat architects, what don't they do? I don't like Doctors because they pretend they are doing something other than engaging in an economic transaction. The idea of "the practice of medicine" has morphed into some sort of magical mystical art that only high priests can understand (and how dare us mere mortals judge them). If they would just acknowledge that they are motivated by the same profit motive as the rest of us I wouldn't have any professional beef with them.
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SWATJester posted:
Or that lawyers can sue over
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Guys stop badmouthing doctors, have you all forgotten that we too are doctors?
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My goal at NULS will be to marry one of the med students at the law/med school campus.
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MoFauxHawk posted:My goal at NULS will be to marry one of the med students at the law/med school campus. I'm not bitter... not at all.
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Lykourgos posted:If you didn't already hate academia from experience with lib arts undergrad/high school, then going to law school isn't going to do anything. The hatred for a lot of people is only going to start after you work your first summer job, and realise in a very real, face to face manner how worthless law school is. . Omerta fucked around with this message at 03:19 on Aug 17, 2011 |
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Omerta posted:I really hated my undergrad studies but so far I'm enjoying everything. As an added bonus, my school has free kegs and food every thursday. Well, maybe you'll get lucky and only hate it as a 2 or 3L when you realise there's no jobs. I doubt it, though; unless you do a research project or go on vacation for summer, the actual practice of law ought to change things.
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Omerta posted:I really hated my undergrad studies but so far I'm enjoying everything. As an added bonus, my school has free kegs and food every thursday. "First week is great, the next 3 years are going to be just awesome and stimulating!" Yeah I was like that too.
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School starts tomorrow. Under 9 months left and one small test and I'm a lawyer! Night school was cool because I could work but 4 years of law school is hell.
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Roger_Mudd posted:School starts tomorrow. Under 9 months left and one small test and I'm a lawyer! Look at how wrong you are... the bar is terrible
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TheBestDeception posted:Look at how wrong you are... the bar is terrible To be fair, the bar itself is fine. It's the three months leading up to the bar that is unbearably soul crushing.
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Roger_Mudd posted:School starts tomorrow. Under 9 months left and one small test and I'm a lawyer!
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