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Red Bean Juice posted:Is anybody going to the Tenenbaum oral argument before the First Circuit Monday? Seems like it'd be a good way to get some nerdlaw cred in. This can't be hidden away at the end of the last page like that! It's too great!
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Apr 1, 2011 00:50
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Awesome comic, shared it with a bunch of classmates. My second year seminar prof told me today that the 35 pages I wrote for my first draft are garbage and I need to start all over. gently caress law school, go enlist in the military instead.
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Red Bean Juice posted:Also, where once there was but a ball of anxiety and rejection e-mails, there is a new comic If people still handed out paper resumes, you could print this comic on the backside of yours for any non-white-shoe-stick-up-its-rear end firm. Seriously. At least have a line at the bottom of your resume that says: "Interests: I draw awesome legal cartoons. http://www.iamfuckingcool.com"
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Tokelau All Star posted:Awesome comic, shared it with a bunch of classmates. If it makes you feel any better I'm about two weeks away from being told the same thing.
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Red Bean Juice, I love it. I signed up for Tax and got the second-to-last spot. Thanks for the input, everybody; I'm really looking forward to it.
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mrtoodles posted:At least have a line at the bottom of your resume that says: Actually, I do have something to that effect, and I get asked about it a lot in interviews. Maybe that's why I've never been on a callback?
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Sulecrist posted:Red Bean Juice, I love it. What school do you go to, again?
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entris posted:What school do you go to, again? Duke!
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Ugh I want them to announce what classes are being offered next semester so I can plancastinate.
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Sulecrist posted:Duke! http://www.law.duke.edu/lib/lresources/bna Click on "BNA Tax Management Portfolios Plus" and log in using your duke netID. The BNA tax portfolios are a fantastic starting point when trying to learn a new area of tax law. The portfolios are practice-oriented, so they won't help you learn tax policy, but they will help you learn how the rules work. For your JD class, you'll probably want to focus on the portfolios under the heading "Income, Deductions, Credits and Computation of Tax" - specifically: Portfolio 501-3rd Gross Income: Overview and Conceptual Aspects (this is one of the few portfolios that may help understand policy rationales as well as basic rules). Portfolios 502, 503, 504, and 505 Portfolio 530 (depreciation) Now that I think about it, you should grab the syllabus for your tax class, then cross-reference the syllabus topics with the right portfolios. Then you will know which portfolios are worth reading up. Your library probably has paper copies of these as well, which may be easier to flip through. I love the portfolios - they explain things clearly and directly, they usually have examples, and they have references to cases, rev rulings, rev procs, and PLRs. Very useful starting point. I took my C Corp tax exam without studying at all or attending class; I opened up the C Corp portfolios in the background on my computer, and went hunting for the answers during the exam, and I did just fine. I wouldn't recommend that method, but that's how good the portfolios are. Most JD people try to learn out of the casebook or by reading the Code and regs. The Code and regs can be helpful, certainly, but I find that starting with the right BNA portfolio is the easiest way to get your arms around a new tax topic. entris fucked around with this message at 21:06 on Apr 1, 2011 |
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entris posted:http://www.law.duke.edu/lib/lresources/bna Thank you! This looks really useful.
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The Warszawa posted:Ugh I want them to announce what classes are being offered next semester so I can plancastinate. This is especially a nightmare when applying for clinics. "You must take x course as a pre- or co-requisite with this clinic." "But... but... the clinic applications are due long before you even announce the registration periods for next year..." 
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AKMoose posted:This is especially a nightmare when applying for clinics. To be fair, like none of our clinics are like that and I'm currently in a class with the prof who does the selection for the clinic I really want to take. I just want to pick the other 3 classes too.
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Apr 1, 2011 22:42
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Got a reply to one of my articling applications that they got over 200 apps for a single spot and I'm not good enough to get an interview. Just a few months before the articling period starts and there's still hundreds of people looking for work 
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CmdrSmirnoff posted:Got a reply to one of my articling applications that they got over 200 apps for a single spot and I'm not good enough to get an interview. Just a few months before the articling period starts and there's still hundreds of people looking for work Jesus! I thought the Canadian law market was doing ok... And don't you go to Osgoode--one of the best law schools here?! I'm hoping you're bottom quartile or something because drat...
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fruitpoops posted:Jesus! I thought the Canadian law market was doing ok... Oh, no, it's doing poorly, just not as apocalyptically poorly as the American market, and without quite as much debt for students to deal with.
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Apr 2, 2011 03:32
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Southern hemisphere 2L summer clerk angst time! Eleven applications, three rejections, two interviews, one 'we don't know if we're recruiting this year, please contact later'. Ugh.
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GregNorc posted:So I accepted an offer to do a PhD to study infosec. Stipend, full tution, generous travel budget (which is nice since one of the main confences in my field is always held on a tropical island.)
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fruitpoops posted:Jesus! I thought the Canadian law market was doing ok... And don't you go to Osgoode--one of the best law schools here?! B+ average, comfortably in the top half at least. I turned down an offer way back in August and that's looking like something of a bad move right now. I did have an interview recently that went really well, and there are other opportunities popping up every week so it's not all doom and gloom, but it's still pretty bleak.
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 quote:Aug. 4, 1868: Near the top of its ad, Yale Law School stated that "no preliminary examination" was required. Another draw: 11 weeks of vacation and 2 weeks of holiday recess.  quote:
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Stop posted:Hey Columbia/NYU Guys, If you're seriously between the two schools, visit Columbia. NYU knows what Columbia's "image" is, and knows that there's a lot of overlap between NYU admits and Columbia admits, and I think it's reasonable to infer that they target their ASW towards that overlap. That said, if you get the scholarship, go to NYU.
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One of my good friends does public interest at Columbia and pointed out that, while it's true the school sucks in terms of support (i.e. the petition drama this year), there are so few students that do it that there are actually a huge number of prestigious opportunities for public interest students with basically no competition. You just have to be prepared to take the initiative. She chose Columbia over Harvard and knowing the details of her resume I have to say it seems like she really made the right choice. Something to think about.
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I go to Columbia, am public interest, and do just fine. We may have a corporate reputation, but the folks who do go public interest are true believers and really care about what they do. Come on up and visit!
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Columbia and NYU are the same thing. The thing about public interest/corporate focus is utter bullshit. Columbia's stats are better. If money is equal, go there. If not, go with the one that gives you more money.
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I agree with what everyone else says, go wherever gives you more money.
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While we're on the subject, what do you guys think about NYU and Chicago? I've been going back and forth between the two and thought I'd ask the internet before I just flipped a coin or something. I have equivalent scholarships at both - $60K at Chicago, $50K baseline at NYU but $60K with qualifying public interest work the summer after 2L. I know Chicago is higher ranked and has a stronger academic reputation, but the two are ranked #5 and #6 and NYU is in a really attractive location. Can anyone that's attended either school weigh in on the subject? My impression is that this is mostly a blonde vs. brunette question. Am I missing anything?
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City-wise Chicago is better than New York so yeah.
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Feces Starship posted:Columbia and NYU are the same thing. The thing about public interest/corporate focus is utter bullshit. when are we gonna get drunk in nyc
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diospadre posted:City-wise Chicago is better than New York so yeah. This point cannot be disputed. Chicago is literally the heart and soul of America, dead centre in its geographical chest. New York is basically an armpit, with a chunk of the shoulder/Manhattan bitten off by a fish.
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I didn't realize being in the middle of nowhere was an asset.
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Its Miller Time posted:I didn't realize being in the middle of nowhere was an asset. You're right, USA is nowhere~
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Red Bean Juice, please never stop making law comics. And when you finally become a judge with your shiny Harvard JD, please let me litigate in front of you so you can lay down an Order of Judgment that's purely in law comic format. With that said, I'm going to go hit up these two new updates for Deadly Premonition LP. Saturday Night Thug Life.
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Green Crayons posted:
You know, it's stupid, I actually bought and finished the game because of that LP, and I still look forward to updates. The dude's just good I guess.
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Meadiator posted:While we're on the subject, what do you guys think about NYU and Chicago? I've been going back and forth between the two and thought I'd ask the internet before I just flipped a coin or something. Keep in mind that with identical scholarships, Chicago will be a bit cheaper because of a lower cost of living and slightly lower tuition. But the difference is small enough that it's up to personal preference. So this post is useless, sorry.
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