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MEET ME BY DUCKS posted:tech background seems even better for getting a 1L SA position than URM Yeah, this. I know one whitey who was well below median and still got a 1L gig.
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MoFauxHawk posted:Even if firms call them Summer Associates, summer associates at Biglaw firms are still clerks. Since I was a little baby, I remember my dad always talking about the "law clerks" at his little firm. Biglaw firms may use that fancier sounding title, but make no mistake about the fact that you're clerking at these firms. Lmao, ”summer associate” is something people actually say? ”law clerk” is already the fancy way of saying intern
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Agesilaus posted:Lmao, ”summer associate” is something people actually say? ”law clerk” is already the fancy way of saying intern Sort of like how "prosecutor" is a fancy way of saying "publican".
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Feb 26, 2012 20:31
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MoFauxHawk posted:Sort of like how "prosecutor" is a fancy way of saying "publican". Only prosecutors aren't publicans, but law clerks and summer associates are interns. Your post doesn't make much sense...
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Feb 26, 2012 20:48
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Agesilaus posted:Only prosecutors aren't publicans, but law clerks and summer associates are interns. Your post doesn't make much sense... Haha I know, I'm just being silly. Law Prom last night was really fun. Direwolf, I didn't see you there! :-(
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Feb 26, 2012 21:03
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We just interviewed a Michigan grad for a spot we have opening up. He is currently a stock boy at Walmart. No jobs, etc.
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Feb 26, 2012 21:08
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First year as a biglaw associate: feeling like you're lazy becuase you weren't at the office, but only working from home, when you got called to help on an assignment at 10:00 AM on a Sunday.
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Feb 26, 2012 21:17
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qwertyman posted:First year as a biglaw associate: feeling like you're lazy becuase you weren't at the office, but only working from home, when you got called to help on an assignment at 10:00 AM on a Sunday. First year as a midlaw associate: Feeling happy because you woke up at 10:00 AM on a Sunday, went to the gym, made a large lunch, walked to the movie theatre, and then went to the park to enjoy the weather.
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HiddenReplaced posted:First year as a midlaw associate: Feeling happy because you woke up at 10:00 AM on a Sunday, went to the gym, made a large lunch, walked to the movie theatre, and then went to the park to enjoy the weather. And for some reason you want to got to Michigan.
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Feb 26, 2012 22:25
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Agesilaus posted:Lmao, ”summer associate” is something people actually say? ”law clerk” is already the fancy way of saying intern Usually interns don't get paid, though.
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Feb 26, 2012 22:36
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Omerta posted:And for some reason you want to got to Michigan. I most certainly never said I wanted to.
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Feb 26, 2012 22:39
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Look guys Michigan really isn't just a Mad Max style postapocalyptic civilization surrounded by sparsely-populated wilderness. We also have awesome beer.
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Feb 26, 2012 23:16
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HiddenReplaced posted:First year as a midlaw associate: Feeling happy because you woke up at 10:00 AM on a Sunday, went to the gym, made a large lunch, walked to the movie theatre, and then went to the park to enjoy the weather. First year as a solo practitioner: get pissed because you won't get paid for 6 months, go make a will for someone, get drunk while interviewing them, pocket their $400, go home to where you live with your mom.
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Feb 27, 2012 00:04
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Attention crim lawgoons. Job possibly opening up soon, in scenic far Northern California. http://www.sacbee.com/2012/02/26/4291502/from-meth-addict-to-del-norte.html
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Attention crim lawgoons. Job opened up, in http://newsok.com/troubled-nichols-hills-attorney-is-removed-from-court-during-arraignment/article/3647111 They'd make a great couple?
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CaptainScraps posted:First year as a solo practitioner: get pissed because you won't get paid for 6 months, go make a will for someone, get drunk while interviewing them, pocket their $400, go home to where you live with your mom. Word on the street is that this so called "Captain" Scraps hates tex-mex. Can we hold a tribe circle and vote him off?
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qwertyman posted:First year as a biglaw associate: feeling like you're lazy becuase you weren't at the office, but only working from home, when you got called to help on an assignment at 10:00 AM on a Sunday. HiddenReplaced posted:First year as a midlaw associate: Feeling happy because you woke up at 10:00 AM on a Sunday, went to the gym, made a large lunch, walked to the movie theatre, and then went to the park to enjoy the weather. CaptainScraps posted:First year as a solo practitioner: get pissed because you won't get paid for 6 months, go make a will for someone, get drunk while interviewing them, pocket their $400, go home to where you live with your mom. First year as an attorney for a state agency: took off Friday to take a three-day weekend in the Hill Country. Short week next week because of Texas Independence Day. That'll be my third long weekend in a row. And since our blackberrys were taken back after our trial ended (lol budget cuts), there's 0 chance of checking e-mail over the weekends.
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Second year as a small law plaintiffs attorney: son of a bitch!
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Elotana posted:Second year as a small law plaintiffs attorney: son of a bitch! There's no way that case is getting tried.
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Feb 27, 2012 04:06
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Happiness is waking up to a blackberry with no new emails.
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Phil Moscowitz posted:There's no way that case is getting tried. 
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I was making a joke about how poor I am the other day and my friend said "But you'll be making six figures when you graduate in two months!" It took a long time to convince him that being a lawyer isn't a quick get rich scheme.  Also, I've had absolutely no obligations this week (not even classes) except for writing my 10 page double spaced paper that's due this Thursday. Did I write a word of it? No.
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I noticed the OP mentioned how a fifth year in undergrad might hurt, I did it in about 12 semesters over 9 years. I basically did two tries at undergrad. My first 2/3 is about a 2.5, then the last third was a 3.9. Culmulative is about a 3. Should I even bother trying for a T14 school with this GPA and a 170+ LSAT?
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Feb 27, 2012 11:33
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You are what is referred to as a "splitter." Should you try? Yes. Will it yield results? Probs not very good ones, but you might luck out. Just don't give in to the sunk costs fallacy and be prepared to NOT GO if you don't get in somewhere that doesn't suck.
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Feces Starship posted:You are what is referred to as a "splitter." Should you try? Yes. Will it yield results? Probs not very good ones, but you might luck out. Great thanks that was my take too. my first choice is MPP, but I may consider a T-14 with some aid or T-30 with a lot. JD's seem to get a lot more positive feedback on the web than an MPP.
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menino posted:I noticed the OP mentioned how a fifth year in undergrad might hurt, I did it in about 12 semesters over 9 years. I basically did two tries at undergrad. My first 2/3 is about a 2.5, then the last third was a 3.9. Culmulative is about a 3. Should I even bother trying for a T14 school with this GPA and a 170+ LSAT? Depends on how far over the 170. I did pretty much the same thing as you, screwed up undergrad the first time, went back and got straight A's and LSAC gave me a GPA of 3.1. My LSAT was 171. I got shut out of the T14 but decent scholarship at a T25.
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menino posted:Great thanks that was my take too. my first choice is MPP, but I may consider a T-14 with some aid or T-30 with a lot. JD's seem to get a lot more positive feedback on the web than an MPP. Where are you finna go for the MPP and what are you finna do after you graduate.
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sigmachiev posted:Where are you finna go for the MPP and what are you finna do after you graduate. My GRE scores are top 5% and I decent work experience and languages so I'm shooting for WWS/Berkeley/Georgetown, depending on debt incurred I finna do fed govt or policy analysis, depending on where I finna get in.
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What is this "finna" poo poo? I assumed it was a typo for "gonna" since "fi" is right next to "go".
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menino posted:I noticed the OP mentioned how a fifth year in undergrad might hurt, I did it in about 12 semesters over 9 years. I basically did two tries at undergrad. My first 2/3 is about a 2.5, then the last third was a 3.9. Culmulative is about a 3. Should I even bother trying for a T14 school with this GPA and a 170+ LSAT? My story is remarkably similar to yours. 11 semesters over about 10 years. Terrible first couple semesters back in the beginning. When I graduated, I ended up with a LSAC GPA a tad under 3.3, which updated to a little over a 3.3 when I updated LSAC with my final semester grades halfway through my application cycle. LSAT was 171. Most of my applications were submitted at the deadline, and I got waitisted at a few T14 schools, and accepted to Cornell. So it can happen, you just need to write a GPA addendum about how your upward trend reflects your growth as a student and blah blah blah. It probably doesn't count for much, but it couldn't hurt. Oh, and apply EARLY in the cycle, don't wait for the deadline and half-rear end it like I did. Although I wouldn't hold your breath for scholarship money. Lilosh fucked around with this message at 16:47 on Feb 27, 2012 |
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entris posted:What is this "finna" poo poo? I assumed it was a typo for "gonna" since "fi" is right next to "go". From "fixing to", as in "I fixin to do fed gvt or policy analysis." Although that might be a folk etymology.
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entris posted:What is this "finna" poo poo? I assumed it was a typo for "gonna" since "fi" is right next to "go". See United States v. Arnold, 486 F.3d 177, 210 (2007). quote:More importantly, the statement contains no auxiliary verb (e.g., "is" or "was") connected to "finna," which I understand to be a slang contraction for "fixing to," much as "gonna" serves as a contraction for "going to." See, e.g., http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=finna (last visited Apr. 19, 2007) (defining "finna" as, "Abbreviation of 'fixing to.' Normally means 'going to.'"). Lilosh fucked around with this message at 17:27 on Feb 27, 2012 |
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you have got to be kidding me Let's give it the full quote: quote:Next, the majority places undue emphasis on its interpretation of the tape. Although I question the utility of semantically dissecting Gordon's statements, even if I take the majority's approach, the tape does not indicate that Gordon spoke to the 911 operator before sufficient time to contrive or misrepresent had passed. According to the majority, Gordon said, "he's fixing to shoot me," [**99] as opposed to "he was fixing to shoot me." Maj. Op. at 6, 7. After listening to the tape multiple times, I hear the words: "I guess he finna shoot me." I find this significant for two reasons. First, Gordon's inclusion of the words "I guess" (which the majority cleverly excises) renders her statement far less definitive than the majority chooses to present it. More importantly, the statement [***30] contains no auxiliary verb (e.g., "is" or "was") connected to "finna," which I understand to be a slang contraction for "fixing to," much as "gonna" serves as a contraction for "going to." See, e.g., http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=finna (last visited Apr. 19, 2007) (defining "finna" as, "Abbreviation of 'fixing to.' Normally means 'going to.'"). 8 The lack of an auxiliary verb renders determination of whether Gordon intended to imply the past or present tense an exercise in sheer guesswork. Accordingly, the words spoken on the tape do not establish that Gordon offered these statements before there was time to contrive or misrepresent. Whatever law clerk wrote that opinion probably laughed his/her rear end off when s/he managed to get a federal Court of Appeals to cite urbandictionary.com in a published opinion. Wow.
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I have a new goal in life. Replace a Black's Law cite with an Urban Dictionary cite in something published.
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MoFauxHawk posted:Haha I know, I'm just being silly. I didn't go last year, I'm getting $500 from SFPIF and can't really justify spending $150 of that on my own funding
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Wait,are we recommending that people go to just any t14 without a bundle of money? Crazy.
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haha can't believe a court cited Urban Dictionary http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=law%20school quote:
Although it is very accurate.
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Lilosh posted:See United States v. Arnold, 486 F.3d 177, 210 (2007). entris posted:you have got to be kidding me
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menino posted:My GRE scores are top 5% and I decent work experience and languages so I'm shooting for WWS/Berkeley/Georgetown, depending on debt incurred I finna do fed govt or policy analysis, depending on where I finna get in. Add HKS and Syracuse to your list of schools. Goldman is cool and I've met solid people there so if you want more on Berkeley lemme know. My understanding is it's heavy on quant relative to other places and quite good for that end of it. If you get one of those five I say go for it over law school depending on your work experience and if you have a background in stat, math or econ.
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entris posted:What is this "finna" poo poo? I assumed it was a typo for "gonna" since "fi" is right next to "go". Finna is a way of life.
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