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now that this is over being a 2L is kind of cool Sulecrist fucked around with this message at 05:40 on Sep 14, 2011 |
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Passed the MO bar. KEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKE ^^
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Sep 14, 2011 09:01
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TheAttackSlug posted:Passed the MO bar. TheAttackSlug es #1 HUEHUEHUE
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Sep 14, 2011 14:18
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JAJAJAJAJAJAJAJA
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Sep 14, 2011 14:37
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Congrats to the bar passers thus far. Texas makes us wait until Nov. 3. :/
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Sep 14, 2011 15:44
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Roger_Mudd posted:Congrats to the bar passers thus far. Texas makes us wait until Nov. 3. :/ California publishes results like the weekend before thanksgiving. God that took forever.
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Sep 14, 2011 18:03
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Congratulations, everybody!
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Sep 14, 2011 18:30
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nm posted:California publishes results like the weekend before thanksgiving. God that took forever. I got my results the night of my firm's 25th anniversary dinner. I sat, in my suit, waiting for 5:00 p.m. so I could get my results, and then had to head over to the Beverly Wilshire, where every single one of the 50+ attorneys attending knew I had just passed or failed. I passed. One of the other new associates failed. She came an hour late, after everyone had already whispered it around the room, and had to sit at the secretary table because all the others were full. She was gone three weeks later.
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Sep 14, 2011 18:46
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Copernic posted:I passed. One of the other new associates failed. She came an hour late, after everyone had already whispered it around the room, and had to sit at the secretary table because all the others were full. She was gone three weeks later. Maybe she was on the edge already. I had a friend who failed by 2 points. He loving hated himself. He'd just got an offer withdrawn in July so he was a bit distracted.
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Sep 14, 2011 19:08
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Back from a bar trip of backpacking Southeast Asia. I went to Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam for about a month and a half, and then one last night in Tokyo at the end. Coming back to the States has brought me back to the sad reality that I'm going to have to be a lawyer soon.
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Sep 14, 2011 19:53
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What is a "bar trip"? Is that where you wait out your bar results through a buffet of binge drinking and sex tourism?
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Sep 14, 2011 20:39
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The Warszawa posted:What is a "bar trip"? Is that where you wait out your bar results through a buffet of binge drinking and sex tourism? It's your last celebration of life before you kill yourself for not having a job/slowly kill yourself through overwork. How'd your trip go, Qwerty? I did Vietnam/Cambodia/Thailand before law school and it was a blast. I went to Burning Man for a bar trip.
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Sep 14, 2011 21:07
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CaptainScraps posted:It's your last celebration of life before you kill yourself for not having a job/slowly kill yourself through overwork. An absolute blast! Lots of amazing things to do, from getting certified as a scuba diver to riding an elephant! Also went to a town in Laos called Vang Vieng. They let people rent rubber tubes and then you float down the river, while there are bars all down the river that fish you out and you party. You're surrounded by beautiful mountains. It's like having spring break in Middle Earth.
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Sep 14, 2011 21:30
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qwertyman posted:An absolute blast! Lots of amazing things to do, from getting certified as a scuba diver to riding an elephant! Yup. Never made it to tubing but I did plenty of other things while I was there. Like try to outdrink the Irish. And fail to outdrink the Irish. Fire an uzi sideways after yelling "CHECK YOURSELF FOOL." Go to a giant beachfront party on the back of a truck crammed with thai people, hanging off the truck with one hand and funneling thai hooch with the other. Taking advantage of being the only American in a land of horny English girls. Trying to take a hangover poop into a squat toilet. All sorts of fun things. gently caress, I miss it.
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Sep 14, 2011 21:44
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nm posted:That's brutal. Most non-lovely firms will allow 1 fail for the CA bar before firing. Every firm has a sr partner who failed the bar first time out (not that he makes it well known), but with such a low pass rate, even good people fail. My US senator failed four times. And shes kinda awesome. I know a guy who failed, like, thirty times. He's a constitutionalist, and confident that he will eventually pass.
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Sep 15, 2011 02:23
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Top 40% at CLS. 6 callbacks, one offer, one rejection, 4 unknown.
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Sep 15, 2011 03:22
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Condolences to people who passed the bar and no longer have any excuse for changing their minds and doing something else with their lives.
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Sep 15, 2011 19:47
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dos4gw posted:I know I'm a bit later to reply than a few other people but I wanted to make an alternative suggestion. I had a look at Cole Haan and all their 'briefcases' are soft leather and what I would think of more as a laptop bag than a briefcase. I have a Cole Haan bag, as does the other political officer at the embassy. They own. MoFauxHawk posted:Nope, I don't think that's right. Find Faggy McPooferson's website and see for yourself. Posting from Somalia to say it's an attache case. I have no idea why, since none of the other attaches use one. Leif. fucked around with this message at 20:18 on Sep 15, 2011 |
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Sep 15, 2011 20:15
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Is there a program that can batch convert PDFs to serialized TIFF images? My office is out of Acrobat licenses and I've been looking around all day. FOSS would be nice, since I'd rather not drop $30-50 on some crappy shareware download of unknown robustness.
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Sep 15, 2011 20:24
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Diplomaticus posted:Posting from Somalia to say it's an attache case. I have no idea why, since none of the other attaches use one. That doesn't answer our question at all!
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Sep 15, 2011 20:39
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Any CLS goons know how seriously I should be taking this Legal Methods exam next week? Do people actually fail?
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Sep 15, 2011 22:29
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Stunt Rock posted:Condolences to people who passed the bar and no longer have any excuse for changing their minds and doing something else with their lives. I've passed three bars and still changed my mind. It can always be undone.
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Sep 15, 2011 22:43
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Colorblind Pilot posted:Any CLS goons know how seriously I should be taking this Legal Methods exam next week? Do people actually fail? no noone fails, unless you're in Strauss
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Sep 15, 2011 23:33
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HooKars posted:I've passed three bars and still changed my mind. It can always be undone.  put 'er there, sister.
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Sep 16, 2011 00:02
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Today at work (where they don't know I'm a lawyer I think) someone was complaining about how they had to consult with the legal department about the disclaimers on a something or other, and I was all commiserating like "ugh, you had to talk to lawyers" and we laughed and it was nice to remind myself of how far I've come from that terrible mistake I made.
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Sep 16, 2011 00:31
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vvv aww poo poo, I thought I clicked that one vvv
Shaocaholica fucked around with this message at 01:27 on Sep 16, 2011 |
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Sep 16, 2011 00:54
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Wrong thread, ask it here http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3266659
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Sep 16, 2011 01:00
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Direwolf posted:
Guess what--we don't want you either.
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Sep 16, 2011 02:31
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PI 4 lyfe
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Ainsley McTree posted:Today at work (where they don't know I'm a lawyer I think) someone was complaining about how they had to consult with the legal department about the disclaimers on a something or other, and I was all commiserating like "ugh, you had to talk to lawyers" and we laughed and it was nice to remind myself of how far I've come from that terrible mistake I made. The owner of a company I'm working on a contract with and his son, myself, and some other people were in their conference room hammering out some details on the contract. The owner, not realizing I'm an attorney, starts thanking god none of them are there, saying how scummy they all are, and how he'd disown his son if he had wanted to go to law school. My co-worker jokingly strokes my arm and consoles me when their VP leans into his boss and tells him I'm a lawyer. Cue hilarious shock and spewing apologies. I reassured him it was fine since I couldn't be a scumbag as I worked at a non-profit.
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Sep 16, 2011 02:35
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Sbull posted:I reassured him it was fine since I couldn't be a scumbag as I worked at a non-profit. Did you say this with a straight face?
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Sep 16, 2011 02:39
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Lilosh posted:Did you say this with a straight face? Absolutely not. I can't stand the idea of someone making a lamer joke than what I'm capable of.
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Sep 16, 2011 02:41
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Feces Starship posted:no noone fails, unless you're in Strauss If there's one thing I remember...cite the statute!! [no one really fails]
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Sep 16, 2011 02:59
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Sbull posted:The owner of a company I'm working on a contract with and his son, myself, and some other people were in their conference room hammering out some details on the contract. The owner, not realizing I'm an attorney, starts thanking god none of them are there, saying how scummy they all are, and how he'd disown his son if he had wanted to go to law school. The unoffical Judge Advocate organization at one of the bases I served at was called JAFL, from a comment by a previous Commanding General after an introduction: "Just Another Fucking Lawyer."
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Sep 16, 2011 04:16
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Ainsley McTree posted:Today at work (where they don't know I'm a lawyer I think) someone was complaining about how they had to consult with the legal department about the disclaimers on a something or other, and I was all commiserating like "ugh, you had to talk to lawyers" and we laughed and it was nice to remind myself of how far I've come from that terrible mistake I made. Today at work we were trying to decide if we had to consult the legal department of the university about including a copyrighted song in a movie we're making, even though we had already paid an external organization to clear the copyright, but just because "something might go wrong", and someone said "well you know things tend to take longer once the lawyers get involved" and I said "well you know they are paid hourly so the incentive is to take longer" and they laughed and laughed and I said "no seriously the incentive is to take as long as possible, thats how lawyering works" and they laughed and laughed like I had told a really funny joke but it was not a joke except unless you consider that the joke, the joke it was on us. It was on us all along. Petey fucked around with this message at 04:21 on Sep 16, 2011 |
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Sep 16, 2011 04:18
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TheBestDeception posted:If there's one thing I remember...cite the statute!! [no one really fails] I know someone whom Strauss "failed," but as it turns out there aren't any real consequences. Strauss just gives you a stern talking to. And yes, do cite the statute. Quote it, even.
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Sep 16, 2011 04:30
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I work with ex-lawyers from all walks of life: 20 years in practice now wants a pension, failed bar exam numerous times, 2 years in shitlaw, barred but never practiced, etc. They all hated being a lawyer yet every single one of them encourages me to take the bar exam just in case! I don't think I would enjoy my non-legal job quite so much if I had to pay CLE fees every year and have to worry about upholding the rules of "professional" conduct.
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Sep 16, 2011 11:42
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blar posted:I work with ex-lawyers from all walks of life: 20 years in practice now wants a pension, failed bar exam numerous times, 2 years in shitlaw, barred but never practiced, etc. They all hated being a lawyer yet every single one of them encourages me to take the bar exam just in case! I don't think I would enjoy my non-legal job quite so much if I had to pay CLE fees every year and have to worry about upholding the rules of "professional" conduct. Now that I'm teaching full time, I went inactive on my bar license. It costs me a couple hundred dollars a year to keep my license instead of five, and I'm exempt from CLE requirements. So it costs me very little not to practice. Not all states have that though. I used to be licensed in MN too but it would have cost too much to stay inactive so I withdrew from there.
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Sep 16, 2011 16:10
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My relative has literally paid for my CLEs/bar admission fees for a couple of years or I would have gone inactive ages ago. Hey, I can still call myself a lawyer if I do finally go inactive, right? Or would I merely be a JD? Is attention whoring worth the many thousands of dollars to keep it up forever? Decisions, decisions.
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Sep 16, 2011 19:01
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If you're inactive, you are still admitted to a bar, so I think it's OK to say I'm a licensed attorney because it's true. I just have an excuse not to give anyone legal advice when they ask for it. Although when I sign stuff these days where I want to indicate I'm a lawyer, I usually sign it "quepasa18, J.D." rather than "Atty. quepasa18". So I guess there is a distinction to be made to some extent to indicate I don't practice.
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HooKars posted:I've passed three bars and still changed my mind. It can always be undone. So what are you up to now?
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