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When I was clerking, I always wanted to institute a measurement rule for MSJs. If your motion, brief, and accompanying exhibits are more than yay big, there's a question of material fact.
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Litany posted:Since when was New Haven farther north than Ithaca? North in the rankings.
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The Warszawa posted:Pretty sure Yale is like Winterfell, sorry guy - farther north
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The Warszawa posted:North in the rankings. Yes, well up north in tttoilet territory. Keeping Camford and Juke company. 
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Apr 27, 2011 21:55
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BigHead posted:Dear people who write motions: please refrain from calling the other side "absurd" in your pleadings. You are both represented by, like, eight law firms which you are paying a fortune for. Trust me, they've managed to not sound absurd in their complaint. If anyone is absurd, it's you with your dumb 50 page motion to dismiss that has a 0% chance of succeeding. (I won)
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Apr 27, 2011 22:01
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Linguica posted:I just forwarded this to the YLS admissions office and they rescinded your spot, sorry Lol look at this scrub thinking that substantive knowledge is a requirement here.
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Apr 27, 2011 22:19
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Is there a legitimate legal job site? Or is everything conducted through headhunters?
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Apr 27, 2011 22:21
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CaptainScraps posted:Is there a legitimate legal job site? Or is everything conducted through headhunters? [insert link to craigslist adult personals here.]
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In re today: 
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Apr 27, 2011 22:30
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hes actually a justice. hth
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CaptainScraps posted:Is there a legitimate legal job site? Or is everything conducted through headhunters? Of my many adventures into legal employment, two positions came from the craigslist\legal services category, and two positions came from my school's job board. My two craigslist jobs? The first one was a plaintiff-side employment discrimination lawyer, who was probably in his 50s. He had one associate who was fresh out of law school, and the office was in the English basement of the lawyer's row house here in DC. His basement was a nasty mess - files piled everywhere, including the (non-working) bathtub in the bathroom, there were about four working lights so there area was very cave-like, and his office had papers stacked loving everywhere, many of them covered in a layer of dust. I once spent three days going through a pile of papers that had been left on my desk - some of them were utility bills for the office that had never been opened and were over two years old. While cleaning I pulled apart some pages stuck together, and a ton of baby spiders flooded out - the pages had been stuck together by a spider's nest, and I had inadvertently opened the nest. The partner's girlfriend, a 30-something crack prostitute (I am not kidding, she and he used to do drugs upstairs, and she freely admitted to working the streets in her younger days), was incredibly violent. Also, she used to hide in the office sometimes because the cops were looking for - she'd hide under the partner's desk, and one time she crawled into the bottom cupboards of the kitchen. I wasn't there for the latter one, but the associate told me about it. The two of them would get into screaming matches, sometimes in the office, sometimes in the house above. The associate and I would frequently look at each other: "do you think we should do something?" One time they got into a fight in his old-rear end 1980s porsche, and she tore off the rear view mirror and hit him with it - he came in to the office holding it in his hand after jumping out of the car and running inside. He sat on his beaten up black leather couch and was real quiet for the rest of the day. The icing on this domestic violence poo poo-cake was the final incident while I was there, where they were arguing about a used condom that she found under his bed - during the fight, she picked up a heavy glass candle-holder and chucked it at his head. He had to go the hospital for stitches that day. The associate took him. When he got back from the hospital, I went into his office and told him that I couldn't work in that environment. My exact words were "I can't work in an environment like this, and you shouldn't have to live like this. I really hope you get your poo poo worked out." I will also mention that the office computers were old old old, and one time I had to go on the partner's computer to find a client file for the associate. In the documents folder I found a text file containing pedo erotica - I didn't read the whole story, once I saw the words "older camp counselor" and "young boy" followed by some unnecessary physical descriptions, I basically freaked out and left for the day. I have good stories from my second craigslist job but I'll only post it if you guys want, this post is kinda long as it is. My second craigslist job also involved a crazy person basically, so uh, don't get legal jobs off craigslist I guess.
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Petey posted:In re today: Is there a class action anywhere that this ruling does not extinguish? Who brings a class action against a party that doesn't use a contract? I'm not an expert by any means, but every single class action I've ever heard of involves at least one contract. A sales contract, or a lease, or a service contract, something. Every single contract ever has "you must arbitrate" in it. Now, every single contract ever will therefore preclude every class action ever. At least, from now on it sure as hell will. Hilariously terrible, in every imaginable way. You bring an employment class action: "sorry your employment contract says no class actions." Hell you bring a stockholder derivative class action: "sorry your purchase contract says no class action, please arbitrate with us over your $0.10 in stock depreciation." Every lemon class action: "sorry your vehicle purchase contract says no class actions, please arbitrate with Ford over that single faulty spark plug." BigHead fucked around with this message at 23:46 on Apr 27, 2011 |
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entris posted:Gonna quibble with this. ugh this is what I get for making a poker joke on the other hand, you were either gonna get it or you weren't
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Apr 27, 2011 23:56
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I just completely tanked a tax exam and I barely care, give me my C and let me get the gently caress out of this dump
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Linguica posted:hes actually a justice. hth  Don't you know the poor boy lacks a legal education?
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Yeah, we knew the job market here was terrible, but seriously, Houston was crushing our souls. Is there any point to applying to the city listings in Austin? Has anyone EVER gotten a response? As far as our marriage goes, it's rock solid. We've been together since I was 14 and he was 15, and were married quite a while before law school came into the picture. Are these years dark? Yes, these years are very dark. But, he loves the law and this is what he wanted to do and so I support him, and I know he would support me too.
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Litany posted:Since when was New Haven farther north than Ithaca? drat it, I wanted to post this http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&sou...ie=UTF8&t=h&z=8
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BigHead posted:Is there a class action anywhere that this ruling does not extinguish? Who brings a class action against a party that doesn't use a contract? I actually just thought about this today. A firm is filing a class action suit over the enormous data breach at Sony. I saw that headline just after this one. Oh, well.
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RheaConfused posted:Wow, this was not the place to come after yet another fruitless night of searching for jobs for my husband. With that kind of go-getter attitude I'm amazed he hasn't found a job yet!
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Stunt Rock posted:With that kind of go-getter attitude I'm amazed he hasn't found a job yet! I'm not really sure what you are getting at here. I never said he doesn't look as well. We both look, constantly.
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Has he tried applying to volunteer with the AG yet? We take bunches of interns / volunteers, especially during the summer.
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TheBestDeception posted:Has he tried applying to volunteer with the AG yet? We take bunches of interns / volunteers, especially during the summer. Speaking from personal experience, AG's office can be fun work too, depending on what division you get put in.
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TheBestDeception posted:Has he tried applying to volunteer with the AG yet? We take bunches of interns / volunteers, especially during the summer. No, he applied for some openings but never heard back. It sounds like a good way to get experience.
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I thought the T14 was so named because those are the only 14 schools that have been ranked in the top 14 since USNews started using its current wank rear end ranking system. That is still true. Therefore, GULC is still T14, and Texas is not T14 despite its current ranking. That's my take on this important subject.
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entris posted:Ok nvm, Austin is clearly an inferior school: A little late here, but I knew this kid in High School. Seeing his updates on facebook is infuriating a majority of the time. And yet, he's at a better school and will probably do better in life. poo poo.
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cendien posted:A little late here, but I knew this kid in High School. Seeing his updates on facebook is infuriating a majority of the time. And yet, he's at a better school and will probably do better in life. poo poo. He'll lose in life eventually when he's arrested for soliciting a teenage boy.
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Are you kidding? Do you really think you can post quote:While cleaning I pulled apart some pages stuck together, and a ton of baby spiders flooded out and not tell us the other stories?
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President Obama had to get a special exception in order to receive his long form birth certificate and release it to the media. That sounds like a lot of unnecessary work. He should have bought a PS3. (Not relevant to the thread, I realize, but I also figured the people here are most likely to understand my weltschmerz.)
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Ainsley McTree posted:Are you kidding? Do you really think you can post Lawyer & Law School Megathread #13: I pulled apart some pages stuck together, and a ton of baby spiders flooded out--the pages had been stuck together by a spider's nest, and I had inadvertently opened it. I know it's too long so it could just be the first part.
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Alaemon posted:President Obama had to get a special exception in order to receive his long form birth certificate and release it to the media. That sounds like a lot of unnecessary work. I lolled
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God dammit, this thread spilled over into Football Funhouse. People ought to be ashamed of themselves. How many threads do we need to discuss Alex Kozinski's relentless self promotion?
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Gov. Rick Perry floated the notion in an offhand comment today as he began a speech honoring women in the state Legislature. After being introduced by actress and conservative activist Janine Turner, the governor talked about trying to convince Turner’s 13-year-old daughter, an aspiring lawyer, to enroll at A&M, his alma mater. “By the time you get there, they will have a law school,” Perry predicted. http://www.statesman.com/blogs/cont..._texas-politics So many things wrong here. 1) We already have too many schools not including the new UNT school. 2) How can you support tort reform yet think we need more lawyers. I don't like Gov. Perry very much!
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Another T3 law school revenue generator for the state! Load up on debt aspiring lawyers! It's the way of the world!
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Roger_Mudd posted:
My new scheme is to try and get an article published so I can teach at UNT-Law. TheBestDeception posted:Has he tried applying to volunteer with the AG yet? We take bunches of interns / volunteers, especially during the summer. We should get beers sometime soon. G-Mawwwwwww fucked around with this message at 16:29 on Apr 28, 2011 |
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MaximumBob posted:God dammit, this thread spilled over into Football Funhouse. People ought to be ashamed of themselves. How many threads do we need to discuss Alex Kozinski's relentless self promotion? All of them. All the threads. I do enjoy seeing lawgoons pop up in unexpected places though.
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I like when posters just throw down their JD like it's the basis for ultimate insight in any situation.Mean Bean Machine posted:One of the first things I learned getting my Law degree was that, when interpreting a law/rule you don't restrict yourself to the letter of the law, but also take into account its spirit, the intent of the person who created the rule, or you'll be prone to applying the rule incorrectly; meaning next time someone discusses the physical appearance of a character take a deep breath, think before you throw a fit and leave the overseeing of the thread for people who actually know what they're doing. I wasn't probated so obviously I didn't break any rules, and a stupid derail could have been avoided. :thinkinglikealawyer: Benefit of a $100K degree? Understanding how to approach spoiler-chat in TVIV.
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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Ask / Tell > Business, Finance, and Careers > unsourced lawyerquotes.rtf
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I clerk at a small general practice (mostly crim/PI) firm. The other clerk (graduating 3L) has been in the hospital for 10+ days and my boss has been expecting him to keep working on his previously given assignments as well as new ones he's gotten via phone. Also he doesn't have anything lined up after graduation so he's staying on over the summer to do the same stuff I do making $12/hr. And we are the lucky ones with jobs from our school.
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BigHead posted:buy me a sandwich Three pages slow, but will do. I will pretty much go anywhere that I'd have a reasonable chance of practicing CRIMINAL LAW, and I like hiking and cold places. I'll definitely keep it in mind.
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Sulecrist posted:Three pages slow, but will do. I will pretty much go anywhere that I'd have a reasonable chance of practicing CRIMINAL LAW, and I like hiking and cold places. I'll definitely keep it in mind. You might want to try Missouri Public Defender. It isn't cold and I don't know about hiking, but they seem to hire. Downsides are low pay (30s), and you're in rural Missouri.
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