CmdrSmirnoff posted:

I know a judge who straight up told me that if a shoddily-written motion comes across her desk she instantly views it with a negative eye and they have to work harder to convince her.

10-8 posted:

I worked for a few state trial judges during my law school summers and they said the same thing. That job is where I picked up most of my good habits regarding presentation of work product, because I saw so much poo poo come through the door.

Makochuk posted:

I know how much you guys hate on specialization rankings in law school, so if you're looking to help a guy out, he seems like he could use it. (It's basically the this school is bad, but is #3 in environmental law so it's actually pretty good for me thing)

http://www.reddit.com/r/LawSchool/comments/nluwr/question_about_law_school_tiers_and_the_t14/

sigmachiev posted:

which makes sense since Hastings used to be a much stronger school than it is now.

runoverbobby posted:

What happened to it, anyway? A lot of the older lawyers I know still talk about the school as if its right up there with UCLA or USC.

e: they're not Hastings grads either. But some are Southwestern grads so that might partially explain the fawning

sigmachiev posted:

I'm not sure what happened. Maybe Cal and Stanford just solidified themselves in the Bay or as the number of schools in Cali increased they just fell off. Or state funding, which is always an issue (I'm not sure if they've moved to a basically private model like Boalt has).

iamrobk posted:

I just got into Penn Law School, so I'm hoping that it'll turn out to be a good investment for me. We'll see in a few years I guess.

iamrobk posted:

I just got into Penn Law School, so I'm hoping that it'll turn out to be a good investment for me. We'll see in a few years I guess.

Direwolf posted:

Penn state or U Penn?

IrritationX posted:

So, how would you approach it if someone said to you they want to do securities law with a 3.0/153? I hit him with everything I could: destined for mediocrity at a poo poo school, getting a job--any job--is a long shot as a result of that, never seeing Wall Street unless it's on a guided tour, dying alone with a needle in his arm, and he thinks it's a conspiracy to cut competition.

BigHead posted:

Hey nm we officially moved for sanctions vs the PDs recently.

MechaFrogzilla posted:

Haha, prepare for lots of this. Nothing fucks with the Penn students I know like asking them about Nittany Lions football.

MechaFrogzilla posted:

Haha, prepare for lots of this. Nothing fucks with the Penn students I know like asking them about Nittany Lions football.

BigHead posted:

2) His client's doctor declared that the pregnancy was "high risk" and the client was 100% bed ridden.
III) Therefore, the client needed a hospital bed for trial. An actual, physical, "oh jesus the baby is going to die" hospital bed on which she can wallow for the entirety of the week long trial.

iamrobk posted:

I'm at PSU for undergrad, so I don't mind haha (though after the Sandusky stuff it may get a bit old).

Petey posted:

I think the chief problem with the Sandusky stuff is that it wasn't old enough.

BigHead posted:

We moved for sanctions. The judge denied sanctions citing the fact that this is par for the course. Literal bold-face lying to everyone (including your client) about extreme wtf procedures like "my client needs to appear via hospital bed" is not grounds for sanctions. And, as the judge said, this is par for the course.

Edit: Let me emphasize that I'm not exaggerating any of this. The judge set a last second evidentiary hearing, at which the PD's rear end was thoroughly thrashed, and the DA jumped up and down going ballistic. The PD literally smirked and shrugged his shoulders and said "It's just tactics." But it was just - and I quote - "par for the course."

I have magnanimous respect for 99% of PDs, but jesus loving christ.

joat mon posted:

quote:

“Everyone you know has attended, is attending, or will attend Law School.” So begins GUNNER, a tour de force memoir for a market of thousands of pre-law and law students, as well as those interested in what happens when youth and naiveté meet a professional school assembly line.

When the author attends a top law school in 2007, he expects his degree to allow him to ride smoothly into the upper echelons of the profession. But, instead, the economy provides him with anything but as he struggles to find work while burdened by thousands of dollars in debt. His classmates and professors don’t make life any easier. There is Mark, who gets the best grades in the class but wants to live off the grid in Alaska; Sally, a former sorority girl who wants classmates to take her seriously; and Jerome, a man haunted by a single grade and the woman who broke his heart.

Inspired by classics such as Scott Turow’s “1L”, GUNNER is more than the sum of its parts: it is a synopsis of a law student’s experience at a prestigious law school; a romp through the Chicago Southside; a screwball comedy; and a clever, acerbic commentary on the profession and how it was affected by the recent economic collapse. Above all, it is a universal story about the dehumanizing aspects of academia and higher education.

quote:

When we returned to our building, there was no pretense that anyone wanted to watch a movie. I took her to my place and poured each of us a glass of wine. Then I gave her a grand tour: my poster of the logo of every NFL team, a few cover songs on my guitar, my fish tank with the seemingly suicidal goldfish. After she asked for another glass of wine, I took her by the window and showed her my view of a
parking lot.

“You’re real cute,” I told her, while breaking her personal space. She breathed hard on my sweater.
“You,” she answered in broken English, and then looked up at me as if to verify that word meant what she thought. “Did, ugh, Jungshin tell you?”

“Yes,” I said.

“You – good, too,” she said, and smiled. “Cute.” She tapped my nose with her index finger.

I leaned over and kissed her. It was a bad kiss on her end – too much teeth. Then she stopped. That was it. I had done it. I had gone too far. Now the fallout of my spring quarter would begin, with this studious girl suddenly my sworn enemy. She would tell anyone who could understand her broken English about the very bad man.

nm posted:

Oh my loving christ

People v. Dominguez (1967) 256 Cal.App.2d 623, 626.
As a condition of probation the trial court ordered a (hispanic) woman to not have any children unless married and not live with a man unless married.

"You are going to prison unless you are married first. You have already [sic] too many of those. Do you understand that [sic] I am saying?" The court then asked, I poo poo you not, "Do you know where the Planned Parenthood Clinic is?"

She then of course got pregnant. While using birth control. Even the court acknowledged the birth control failed. The trial court says "She understands what causes it." The judge then sent her to prison.

Shockingly, the second district court of appeals had a problem with this.

Holy poo poo,LA County Judge Sprankle, you crazy.

nm posted:

Oh my loving christ

People v. Dominguez (1967) 256 Cal.App.2d 623, 626.
As a condition of probation the trial court ordered a (hispanic) woman to not have any children unless married and not live with a man unless married.

"You are going to prison unless you are married first. You have already [sic] too many of those. Do you understand that [sic] I am saying?" The court then asked, I poo poo you not, "Do you know where the Planned Parenthood Clinic is?"

She then of course got pregnant. While using birth control. Even the court acknowledged the birth control failed. The trial court says "She understands what causes it." The judge then sent her to prison.

Shockingly, the second district court of appeals had a problem with this.

Holy poo poo,LA County Judge Sprankle, you crazy.

joat mon posted:

But since HiddenReplaced is being all Suzy/Sammy Sunshine about the inherent Justice of the justice system

joat mon posted:

When an Oklahoman tells a Californian that his State's policies toward probationers and their rights are shockingly retrograde, there's something wrong.

But since HiddenReplaced is being all Suzy/Sammy Sunshine about the inherent Justice of the justice system, I'm sure the 9th Circuit will fix it on habeas.

entris posted:

I just received a facebook friend request from a client. I haven't idea whether to accept or not- I hardly use Facebook, and I don't think I have any offensive pictures or anything like that, but the idea still makes me uncomfortable.

entris posted:

I just received a facebook friend request from a client. I haven't idea whether to accept or not- I hardly use Facebook, and I don't think I have any offensive pictures or anything like that, but the idea still makes me uncomfortable.