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entris posted:Are you going to be asked questions that assume the UPC intestate succession rules or your state's specific rules? Texas is almost 100% UPC and I only really need close enough as its all multiple choice and I don't care if I get an A i just want to graduate next week
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tau posted:I have a Business Associations Bible I used that's pretty barebones. Also, thanks, Johnny.
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Solid Lizzie posted:LIIOB? I thought someone already gave you the hookup on that. Nevermind.  These aren't as barebones as JohnnyTreachery's: - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3405042/BA_I_Bible.pdf - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3405042/BA_II_Bible-Old_Testament.pdf - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3405042/BA_II_Bible-New_Testament.pdf
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Oh, awesome. Thanks! In other news: quote:Above the Law reports on a Duke 1L who posted a question from his or her Constitutional Law take-home exam, during the exam period, on the Top Law School discussion board seeking "help" in answering this question:
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http://www.lawschooltransparency.com/clearinghouse/ This should be in the OP. It's basically a database of employment data of every law school. It gives each school a rating based on how many students from each school have jobs, right next to the estimated debt students will have on graduation. Digging deeper lets you see how much students are paid on graduation from each school. For example, students at Harvard are 91% likely to have a job (full time, requiring a bar degree, not solo) on graduation, and will accrue ~260k in debt if they enter within the next two terms. However, most of those students who end up in private sector jobs will make $160k Meanwhile, students at Thomas Cooley are 21% likely to have a job on graduation, will accrue ~$160k debt there, and if they do happen to get one of those jobs, the mean salary is a mere $50k a year.
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One of the other first years quit today. Not particularly shocking, because her partner is really abusive, but I'm impressed at how quickly she found a comparable job. It's a shame, we were so close to making it an entire year without anyone from the first year class quitting. The staff apparently had a pool going regarding when one of us would quit, and they all expected at least one of us to be gone within 6 months.
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I have a labor law final on Friday. I did not read. I did not attend class more than 30% of the time. It is an 8 hour takehome. I have read one supplement and I have three outlines. Due to other school commitments, I cannot study today, tomorrow or until 5 pm on Thursday. It is my last final. I BECOME LEGEND
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May 1, 2012 19:24
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Feces Starship posted:I have a labor law final on Friday. I did not read. I did not attend class more than 30% of the time. It is an 8 hour takehome. I have read one supplement and I have three outlines. Due to other school commitments, I cannot study today, tomorrow or until 5 pm on Thursday. Congratulations! You did more work for that one class than Prussian did his entire 3L year.
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happy law day everyone!!!!  quote:NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, in accordance with Public Law 87-20, as amended, do hereby proclaim May 1, 2012, as Law Day, U.S.A. I call upon all Americans to acknowledge the importance of our Nation’s legal and judicial systems with appropriate ceremonies and activities, and to display the flag of the United States in support of this national observance.
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Feces Starship posted:I BECOME Enjoy your B+!
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Linguica posted:happy law day everyone!!!! hahahaahahahah you have got to be making GBS threads me
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sigmachiev posted:hahahaahahahah you have got to be making GBS threads me
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This should go in the OP, maybe. Ehhh, not that good yet but it might be in the future.
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This is pretty old now, but a friend linked it on Facebook and I thought it was a fun read.anonymous no. 3, class of 1990, partner at a large east coast law firm posted:My dream is to become a clerk at Barnes & Noble. Not the manager or the guy who orders the books, but the lowliest clerk they've got. I've got the store picked out. I literally fantasize about this. I'm disappointed in myself. I'm not who I thought I would be. I thought I'd be doing something meaningful. Beyond that, I can't talk to you."
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Feces Starship posted:I have a labor law final on Friday. I did not read. I did not attend class more than 30% of the time. It is an 8 hour takehome. I have read one supplement and I have three outlines. Due to other school commitments, I cannot study today, tomorrow or until 5 pm on Thursday. The question is: do you actually wake up on time to go get it?
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May 1, 2012 22:55
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Bro Enlai posted:This is pretty old now, but a friend linked it on Facebook and I thought it was a fun read. That's a very bittersweet article and I hope Barnes and Noble guy finally did it!
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I swear to god I have hosed up every project I have touched today I can only assume that Law Day is somehow interfering with my usual ability to be slightly sub-competent
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May 1, 2012 23:35
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Feces Starship posted:I have a labor law final on Friday. I did not read. I did not attend class more than 30% of the time. It is an 8 hour takehome. I have read one supplement and I have three outlines. Due to other school commitments, I cannot study today, tomorrow or until 5 pm on Thursday. Welcome to the Barenburger home of the Barenburger can I take your order? It sounds like everybody else in that class is putting in a similar amount of effort.
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Bro Enlai posted:This is pretty old now, but a friend linked it on Facebook and I thought it was a fun read. Yeah, I think someone linked it earlier in the thread. Still great. This is probably my favorite part: ABOUT 80 PERCENT of incoming Harvard Law School students express a desire to practice public-interest law. Also did a triple take when he cited tuition (25k in 2000). loving gently caress man.
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NY just added a 50 hours of pro bono service requirement for admission to the bar, effective next year. I'm not immune to the problems with access to the justice system, but, reeeeaaalllyyyy?
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Do they allow charitable donation in lieu of hours? 50 hours is worth at least $22,500 to a major firm and the really lol part is when some big firm attnys do their mandatory pro bono work, they are half assing it in a field where they have no experience. I actually think all bars should require a week of pro bono for all attorneys not working at non-profits OR let you donate like $7k to your state's direct services fund (in Texas we mostly use IOLTA for funding grants to public interest stuff).
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Solid Lizzie posted:NY just added a 50 hours of pro bono service requirement for admission to the bar, effective next year. I'm not immune to the problems with access to the justice system, but, reeeeaaalllyyyy? My school had a pro bono service requirement for graduation. Will the NY bar let you double dip? I spent 40 hours in a conference room in a DA's office and surfed the web.
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Solid Lizzie posted:NY just added a 50 hours of pro bono service requirement for admission to the bar, effective next year. I'm not immune to the problems with access to the justice system, but, reeeeaaalllyyyy? Can it be doing anything, such as volunteer tax preparation/representation before the IRS?
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The pro bono requirement for admittance is nothing but yet another shameless ploy to reduce the number of practicing lawyers.*Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman posted:The requirement for mandatory pro bono will not extend to the approximately 160,000 lawyers the American Bar Association estimates are already admitted to the state bar and living in New York. http://tinyurl.com/cgc549c Unbarred law school grads fresh out of school? Perfectly competent to handle anyone's legal problems. Actual practicing attorneys? Whoa hold on there buddy, these people don't have the time or expertise to handle poor people's legal problems. They are trying to earn a living here. *Although as a licensed attorney I fully support any attempts to reduce the number of practicing lawyers, it seems a bit unfair to sucker punch a bunch of law grads who are trying to service student loans with another roadblock to employment.
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ThirdPartyView posted:Can it be doing anything, such as volunteer tax preparation/representation before the IRS? Solid Lizzie fucked around with this message at 04:13 on May 2, 2012 |
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What's up everybody! My wife secured a family medicine residency, we became parents, I'm going to be a stay-at-home dad, at least for the foreseeable future. Law-School Feedback: A++, would do again. On a more serious note: Currently self-studying for the Virginia Bar. Just started Sunday night, averaging 55-60% correct on aftermarket questions, 70% on pre-1992 actual MBE questions on Property, Evidence, and Contracts. Anyone here take the Virgina Bar recently? How hard are the state essay's really, and by how hard I mean how hard to earn 60-70% of the possible points on each one? I'm cheap (and apparently not seen by the fine folks at Citi who were willing to gamble billions on lovely RMBSs as a good risk for a bar loan) so I'm skipping on the 4-figure bar prep programs, and instead spent $50 on a cheap web-site that provided MBE and VA specific subject outlines and an online bank of really difficult practice MBE questions. That and the free pre-1992 questions from the MBE site are all I've used so far, waiting on 2 PMBR and 2 BarBri books with questions from ebay, and a 2010 BarBri MBE outline book. Also downloaded the past Virginia essays with model answers from the William & Mary Website. Should I be OK with May 1 through test day, minus 3 weeks for vacation and moving to a new town, for study time and these materials only?
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entris posted:This should go in the OP, maybe. Yeah I can't even imagine this is accurate. The low end for people out of UNC is $55,000 with only like 9 people out of the class reported as unemployed and looking, whereas I would kill a man for a salary of like $35,000 a year. I'm incredibly frustrated with being rejected as overqualified for poo poo. I don't give a gently caress about being a lawyer arhghghhhhhhhh
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Mons Hubris posted:Yeah I can't even imagine this is accurate. The low end for people out of UNC is $55,000 with only like 9 people out of the class reported as unemployed and looking, whereas I would kill a man for a salary of like $35,000 a year. I'm incredibly frustrated with being rejected as overqualified for poo poo. I don't give a gently caress about being a lawyer arhghghhhhhhhh Simple solution - on your resume, make this tiny edit: 2008-2011 - Job in no time, people love a fighter.
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I have a poster I want to put up in my office. It's a poster of an organization I ran as a 3L. Cool imagery, instant conversation starter, very humanizing. The area of law that the organization handled caused a potential conflict with a small department in the firm that I doubt I'll ever deal with. However, the partner in charge of that department (that I otherwise have no dealings with) has explicitly said that the firm is conflicted out from doing pro bono work on the type of work this organization did. Would there be a problem with hanging this poster in my office?
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New York emailed out results of the Feb bar tonight. I passed. 6 months late because I'm stupid but better late than never. What a relief.
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Solid Lizzie posted:NY just added a 50 hours of pro bono service requirement for admission to the bar, effective next year. I'm not immune to the problems with access to the justice system, but, reeeeaaalllyyyy?
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messagemode1 posted:New York emailed out results of the Feb bar tonight. I passed. 6 months late because I'm stupid but better late than never. What a relief. Congrats
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Boosted_C5 posted:What's up everybody! fwiw I self-studied for the Michigan bar and didn't start till the end of May and passed. I used basically those materials plus PMBR/Kaplan audio lectures on major topics that I got from the law library. I also spent the 150 on the three-pack of 100-question practice exams from the ncbex website which I think was totally worth doing.
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Boosted_C5 posted:What's up everybody! 
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Boosted_C5 posted:What's up everybody! Welcome back Boosted! You should visit our IRC channel. Congratulations to you and your wife. That study plan sounds pretty legit. I would also add in downloading anki and using the lawgoon MBE flaschards.
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qwertyman posted:I have a poster I want to put up in my office. It's a poster of an organization I ran as a 3L. Cool imagery, instant conversation starter, very humanizing. The area of law that the organization handled caused a potential conflict with a small department in the firm that I doubt I'll ever deal with. However, the partner in charge of that department (that I otherwise have no dealings with) has explicitly said that the firm is conflicted out from doing pro bono work on the type of work this organization did. Why don't you ask the partner?
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qwertyman posted:I have a poster I want to put up in my office. It's a poster of an organization I ran as a 3L. Cool imagery, instant conversation starter, very humanizing. The area of law that the organization handled caused a potential conflict with a small department in the firm that I doubt I'll ever deal with. However, the partner in charge of that department (that I otherwise have no dealings with) has explicitly said that the firm is conflicted out from doing pro bono work on the type of work this organization did. would anyone actually give a poo poo at your firm?
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Put it up and see what happens.
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qwertyman posted:I have a poster I want to put up in my office. It's a poster of an organization I ran as a 3L. Cool imagery, instant conversation starter, very humanizing. The area of law that the organization handled caused a potential conflict with a small department in the firm that I doubt I'll ever deal with. However, the partner in charge of that department (that I otherwise have no dealings with) has explicitly said that the firm is conflicted out from doing pro bono work on the type of work this organization did. First, no. Second, I seriously doubt any partner (much less a partner from a completely different group) is ever going to spend more than 4 seconds in your office.
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