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woozle wuzzle posted:At first I was going to tell you not to submit that essay. The question seems like an "are you a human being" type question. Like you see a turtle laying on its back, you aren't helping, why aren't you helping. Responding with "I OBSERVED A COURT PROCEDURE INCORRECTLY BZZZZT" might miss the mark. I was considering that, but it's the only one of my three essays that explicitly discuss legal things, so I'm hoping I might have a balance there. I mean in all honesty, it was between this or the first one to come to mind, which was having some people over for dinner in Japan and messing up some chicken which was kind of embarrassing. I just felt like the stakes were higher with this story than with mixing up the words for salt and sugar, so maybe being a little more robotic was worth it. Thanks for bringing it up, though, because I had a feeling it might be expecting one of those "I didn't make a clutch shot in a JV basket ball game" kind of personal moment.
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Adar posted:Honestly, that essay's going to be worth like 1/4 of a point of the LSAT retake you're currently not studying for, so instead of doing it, retake the LSAT. Does the US have a more severe theft charge where a breach of trust is involved?
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Zarkov Cortez posted:Does the US have a more severe theft charge where a breach of trust is involved? Pretty sure some states do. Also pretty sure he's gonna get charged for everything the inventory is short, soooooooooooo
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Adar posted:Pretty sure some states do. Also pretty sure he's gonna get charged for all 10K worth or whatever the inventory is short, soooooooooooo Reminds me a bit of a client's video statement to the police. The officer asks him whether he wants to speak to a lawyer and the guy tells the officer that he doesn't need to because the lawyer is just going to tell him not to say anything. Afterwards he gives a statement...
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Zarkov Cortez posted:Had a trial yesterday, accused was charged with refusal to provide a breath sample. Your judge is a jerk for not stopping it right there
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Adar posted:Pretty sure some states do. Also pretty sure he's gonna get charged for everything the inventory is short, soooooooooooo  "
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HiddenReplaced posted:Recruiting owns. I wish I could just do it 24/7. Dinging people for random poo poo is so fulfilling. Plus, I'm awesome at my job, 80% incoming C/O 2013 associates are hot chicks. J Miracle posted:What kind of slang? Soothing Vapors fucked around with this message at 17:41 on Feb 28, 2013 |
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Nickoten posted:Honestly, not that hot. I have a 163/3.71, and it's for Georgetown. I just figured it couldn't hurt my chances. I'm wondering if the content might make me seem like a worse candidate, though. As someone who, during his application cycle, wished that he could go back and take the first half of UG seriously, please please retake the loving lsat. It's such a loving waste to apply on that lsat score with your gpa.
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Nickoten posted:So I got a few fee waivers and decided to try applying to a few places for the hell of it. Law school: the only 200k investment people pursue on a whim A 163 is poo poo unless you are URM. you're not getting into Georgetown.
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Soothing Vapors posted:Law school: the only 200k investment people pursue on a whim Sign up for June LSAT if that's still possible, or maybe October LSAT, and apply in fall. How many times have you already taken the LSAT, Nickoten? And how did you prep on it, and what were your strengths and weaknesses? If your weakness was Logic Games, Petey will chime in about how he massively improved on the Logic Games section, and he'll be right to do so because that is a very improvable section.
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Soothing Vapors posted:One candidate almost got dinged because we didn't like the way he used "thrice" in her cover letter, but ultimately I helped pulled that one out of the fire because I am convinced he is crazy and will provide much entertainment We should probably be the hiring partners for the lawgoon firm.
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Soothing Vapors posted:Recruiting does own. It's amazing the kind of petty, meaningless poo poo we go through at the committee meetings to eviscerate otherwise totally indistinguishable candidates. One candidate almost got dinged because we didn't like the way he used "thrice" in her cover letter, but ultimately I helped pulled that one out of the fire because I am convinced he is crazy and will provide much entertainment How did you get on this committee, this sounds like a ball.
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evilweasel posted:How did you get on this committee, this sounds like a ball. I was assigned to the committee first year. I honestly have no idea why. They kept me on it this year, so I guess I didn't gently caress up? I get to pre-screen the applicants from certain schools, and I'm the screening interviewer for my school. Also, free lunch during callback days. HiddenReplaced fucked around with this message at 20:30 on Feb 28, 2013 |
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HiddenReplaced posted:We should probably be the hiring partners for the lawgoon firm. My current favourite 1L candidate has been referred to by no less than 3 other members of the committee as "a loving weirdo" evilweasel posted:How did you get on this committee, this sounds like a ball. HiddenReplaced posted:Also, free lunch The cost: nonbillable time. So much nonbillable time.
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TenementFunster posted:we have a newly- minted JD coming in part time next week, and at the attorney meeting this morning, the hiring partner and HR head was making fun of his earring, so I guess we are gonna get some plugged-up hipster bro Maybe you can do some gay stuff with him.
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CaptainScraps posted:Maybe you can do some gay stuff with him.
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On that note, I'm trying to subtly replace "marijuana" with "cannabis" in firm lexicon. Seems to be working, and I think our few dispensary clients appreciate it, since they tend to be the "connoisseur" set.
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TenementFunster posted:On that note, I'm trying to subtly replace "marijuana" with "cannabis" in firm lexicon. Seems to be working, and I think our few dispensary clients appreciate it, since they tend to be the "connoisseur" set. The old attorneys still ask clients if they're smokin' dope.
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^^^^^ I just say "pot." If I used cannabis my clients would wonder why I'm bringing up the great white north. Adar posted:Crim law goons: you might die alone but at least your clients will never, ever stop doing stupid things I hate you for not quoting the OP.
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So Softest crashing on the performance exam on the last day of the Bar Exam about an hour in is totally awesome. Despite the fact the lovely program locked up, I'm unreasonably happy it actually managed to boot back into the exam after about 5 minutes.
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Angry Grimace posted:So Softest crashing on the performance exam on the last day of the Bar Exam about an hour in is totally awesome. Didn't somewhere have a power outage that completely hosed everything up, thus requiring everyone to change to hand-writing halfway into their exams? God that would suck. Also, I recognized my summer intern's last name because I prosecuted his brother for robbing a liquor store. Surprisingly only slightly awkward.
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Any CA goons take the bar this week? Congrats on finishing.
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BigHead posted:Didn't somewhere have a power outage that completely hosed everything up, thus requiring everyone to change to hand-writing halfway into their exams? I think that's one of those persistent stories that keeps getting told. And yeah just did the CA Bar. Today felt the best so far. Got really lucky on the topics for the essays.
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Angry Grimace posted:Got really lucky on the topics for the essays. That's one of the better feelings in the universe. Happened to me too... It's like doing a slam dunk from a jetski. Does anyone else have honest to goodness brain damage from studying for the bar exam? I swear it altered my memory.
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Adar I went to a talk by Nate Silver tonight and he spent the first 20 minutes talking about fleecing idiots in online poker a decade ago and I thought of you.
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I was nice and duly edited the explanation out but welp: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=3535950&perpage=40&pagenumber=2#post413035597 Petey posted:Adar I went to a talk by Nate Silver tonight and he spent the first 20 minutes talking about fleecing idiots in online poker a decade ago and I thought of you. The only big regret I've had in the last decade is never taking college level statistics so I could've made a website and written a book instead
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woozle wuzzle posted:That's one of the better feelings in the universe. Happened to me too... I was pretty excited about how none of the "hard" subjects showed up; no contracts, evidence or constitutional law.
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I hope applicants really are dinged on C&F for extensive, immediate post-Bar online discussion- e.g. threads with 100s of posts about the most recent MBEquote:You have been told not to discuss the calbar essay/PT and NCBE questions over and over. You listened to the proctor and you have signed on it. What part of is it you don't understand? In the past people have recieved notices for violation. Don't risk it, as it might show up in your moral character app.
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NLJ placement for schools for last year came out: http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202589189668&interactive=true The school-by-school, firm-by-firm breakdown: http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202588887416&Explore_the_Data_Behind_the_GoTo_Law_Schools&slreturn=20130202012627 I didn't realize GULC had such a big class.
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Paramour posted:NLJ placement for schools for last year came out: The GULC class number includes the night/PT program, I believe. Day program is around 500-550, or at least it was when I was there.
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Paramour posted:NLJ placement for schools for last year came out: The really embarassing thing is that this graph shows how loosely correlated tuition price is to value of the degree. I can smugly report that that lone blue dot at 25% placement and only $30k tuition is where I went to school - Texas. An awful choice, surely, but clearly there were worse choices. I'm also glad that my cushy government job is actually hurting our NLJ250 placement figures.
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HolySwissCheese posted:I'm also glad that my cushy government job is actually hurting our NLJ250 placement figures. 50k for a 50% chance is better than 30k for a 25% chance. GOD LAWYERS ARE SO BAD AT MATH LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOOMGOMGOMGLOLOLOWTF.
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HiddenReplaced posted:50k for a 50% chance is better than 30k for a 25% chance. GOD LAWYERS ARE SO BAD AT MATH LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOOMGOMGOMGLOLOLOWTF. The real issue is sticker cost obscures opportunity cost.
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HiddenReplaced posted:50k for a 50% chance is better than 30k for a 25% chance. 50k for a 50% chance of watching college hoops at the bar next to work on a Saturday before you go back to work. If they only knew the true horrors of Biglaw.
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