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MD/JD is super useful if you want to do patent lit for Pfizer, Merck, etc. A worse career than being a doctor but better than most lawyers. Hope this helps.
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HolySwissCheese posted:MD/JD is super useful if you want to do patent lit for Pfizer, Merck, etc. A worse career than being a doctor but better than most lawyers. Hope this helps. Not really. If you want to do patent lit for those guys, you want a phd in any of the biochem disciplines that's useful to drug development. MD won't do you any good. (Also, you won't be working for Pfizer or Merck, you'll be working for Quinn or Kirkland or Foley or Wilmer or any of the other firms with significant patent lit practices.)
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May 25, 2013 03:48
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Roger_Mudd posted:CEO or executive for a Hospital or medical group. A lot of med mal firms keep a doctor lawyer in the house to write expert reports. Saves on costs and depositions.
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May 25, 2013 04:02
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CaptainScraps posted:A lot of med mal firms keep a doctor lawyer in the house to write expert reports. Saves on costs and depositions. Yeah, first thing to pop in my mind was 'expert witness'. The combined degree people always advertise for that in the bar magazines.
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May 25, 2013 04:14
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You can call yourself Doctor Esquire, that's gotta be worth a hundred fifty grand or so.
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May 25, 2013 06:24
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Bold Robot posted:You can call yourself Doctor Esquire, that's gotta be worth a hundred fifty grand or so. Can't someone with a JD already do that? Since it is technically a doctorate?
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Wow, lots of responses. Unsurprisingly, none of them are optimistic. My brother just finished his sophomore year of college; he's taking the next year off to go be in the Peace Corps or something. My parents are split between "Let him follow his dreams!" and "Eh, let's see if he's still interested in a year." I think a summer internship is a really good idea for maybe knocking some sense into him. I also learned my husband has a cousin who just finished a JD/MD, so maybe he'd be willing to talk to him. My brother is smart, a good persuasive writer, and can be wicked driven, which makes him prone to special snowflake syndrome. He doesn't realize that everyone else in law school is too. Also, he told me he has no interest in med school, which I found puzzling, given his insistence on medical malpractice. Thanks for all the suggestions, hope his stubborn fixation provided some amusement.
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May 25, 2013 06:43
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sullat posted:Can't someone with a JD already do that? Since it is technically a doctorate? Technically but you'd look corny as gently caress.
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Bold Robot posted:Technically but you'd look corny as gently caress. Anyone who calls himself esquire already looks corn as gently caress.
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Brennanite posted:Wow, lots of responses. Unsurprisingly, none of them are optimistic. My brother just finished his sophomore year of college; he's taking the next year off to go be in the Peace Corps or something. My parents are split between "Let him follow his dreams!" and "Eh, let's see if he's still interested in a year." I think a summer internship is a really good idea for maybe knocking some sense into him. I also learned my husband has a cousin who just finished a JD/MD, so maybe he'd be willing to talk to him. My brother is smart, a good persuasive writer, and can be wicked driven, which makes him prone to special snowflake syndrome. He doesn't realize that everyone else in law school is too. Also, he told me he has no interest in med school, which I found puzzling, given his insistence on medical malpractice. Let him have cake.
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May 25, 2013 07:10
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MoFauxHawk posted:Seriously, gently caress the baby boomers. They made middle and upper middle class people my age such horrible prima donna shitheads and also ruined so much other stuff. They also ruined around half of Jewish people my age. They're also the ones who've bankrupted the country and who will eventually kill Medicare and social security and finalize the institution of a police state (all while blaming lazy Gen X and ADD millennials). gently caress boomers, seriously.
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Kalman posted:Not really. If you want to do patent lit for those guys, you want a phd in any of the biochem disciplines that's useful to drug development. MD won't do you any good. Oh ya obvi. My old firm had an MD/JD and he worked in the patent lit and mass torts defense sections ("those fatties were already at risk for diabetes!") but he hated it and went to work for the department of health doing something totally not law and was much happier. edit I just google him and now he just practices medicine, so that JD was kind of worth it I guess. if you have an md don't go to law school, even an Ivy League one HolySwissCheese fucked around with this message at 13:49 on May 25, 2013 |
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May 25, 2013 13:47
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HolySwissCheese posted:Oh ya obvi. My old firm had an MD/JD and he worked in the patent lit and mass torts defense sections ("those fatties were already at risk for diabetes!") but he hated it and went to work for the department of health doing something totally not law and was much happier. That reminded me of another person I know who is a registrar for the College of Physicians and Surgeons. He doesn't show up on the practicing lawyers list and I am not sure if he was admitted to the bar. In Canada a person would have to complete a bar admission course/exam and article (which would probably require quitting practicing medicine and making doctor money) for 10-12 months depending on the province before they could be admitted.
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God, BarBri is awfully loving prickly about opting in for the "online only" bar review option--the moment I selected that option I got a big window chastising me and trying to sell me on the in-class lectures. Hey guys, I made it this far, I'm pretty sure I know how I study most effectively. It costs the same to attend lectures or self-study with the videos, why do they give a poo poo?
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Ratatozsk posted:Is there any conceivable value to boasting both an MD and JD? You got out of law school, couldn't get a job, didn't get married, and your parents will pay for it (based on someone I know who is gearing up to go to med school right now)
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AKMoose posted:God, BarBri is awfully loving prickly about opting in for the "online only" bar review option--the moment I selected that option I got a big window chastising me and trying to sell me on the in-class lectures. Hey guys, I made it this far, I'm pretty sure I know how I study most effectively. It costs the same to attend lectures or self-study with the videos, why do they give a poo poo? Because they want the highest pass rate possible.
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I laid in bed this morning fantasizing about becoming a cab driver. Don't go to law school. Also don't move to a town where everyone wants to live but has a small legal market.
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Dogen posted:Also don't move to a town where everyone wants to live but has a small legal market. And that place is?
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HiddenReplaced posted:And that place is? My guess is austin or maybe madison? Maybe portland. These aren't small towns, but they aren't big.
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May 26, 2013 18:23
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He's talked about Texas so I guess Austin.
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May 26, 2013 18:25
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Phil Moscowitz posted:He's talked about Texas so I guess Austin. Good guess.
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May 26, 2013 18:36
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I'm applying for a non law job. I'm doing it. It feels like I'm initiating a break up. My bar call is going to be hella awkward if I leave the firm before I'm called. drat these individualized admissions. Also, I'm sad that I'm potentially saying goodbye to having my own Harry Potter robes.
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May 26, 2013 20:54
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Today is the day I do some Tort AMPs. I mean it.
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Penguins Like Pies posted:I'm applying for a non law job. I'm doing it. It feels like I'm initiating a break up. The obvious solution is to keep the robes. Or are you skipping the call?
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Can someone tell me why people agree to be limited partners in real estate investment Limited Partnerships? I can't find any explanations other than a fetish for real property and willful blindness. I work for a small accounting firm, and my bosses decided that I'd be their forensic accounting test mouse. Right now I'm assisting a lawyer in a suit by one half of the LP's against the other half + the general partner. It's obvious from the partnership agreement and the few letters I've read that the general partner breached the contract repeatedly and with total confidence there would be no legal consequences. I would think it's an anomaly but I'm cleaning up a tax mess from a different real estate Limited Partnership where THE SAME THING HAPPENED. Here's how it goes: - general partner finds a commercial property to "buy, manage, and improve over a few years, then sell at a profit." - general partner finds chumps to join the partnership, entirely financing it with Limited Partner money except for a token amount from the general partner. - general partner is required by the contract to generate performance reports twice a month. This naturally stops within three months of the formation and purchase of the commercial property. the limited partners, being dickheads, don't sue for breach of contract. - general partner has five other similar entities set up, and uses the same plumber, the same electrician, the same carpenter, etc. for all of the commercial properties. - this allows the general partner to write a check for, let's say, $100k to the plumber "Bob Wilson" from the GP's only bank account. Naturally, Bob Wilson has done work on all six properties, this is a lump sum fee, and Bob Wilson doesn't give a flying gently caress about job cost accounting. - When one of the properties gets sold, the general partner (along with a few related party limited partners) claim that they've made loans to the limited partnership in excess of the profits and return of investment on the sale. The "chump" limited partners are left in a spot where they've each given away $50k+ to the general partner and the favored limited partners. - As is typical with these contracts, debts to partners must be satisfied before profits are paid out. This is not the sort of case the DA will take in the county I'm in and the best the clients can hope for is a return of principal at this point. The whole setup is so obviously set up for a shakedown that I'm having trouble comprehending why someone would purchase a limited partner stake in it. I know that the test to beating these guys is "reasonable, necessary, and related" expenses, but there's no way in hell that the general partner will have job-cost accounting books that allocate the expenses to the different properties - the whole point is to obfuscate. The follow-up question is: Is it possible to subpoena (or otherwise legally obtain) the entirety of the General Partner's records for the purposes of the suit? I don't see a way to win the case without seeing the entirety of the General Partner's books and bank statements.
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Vote Republican posted:words I have a case almost exactly like this but a little different. In my case the guy received 100k and let the property be foreclosed upon. The note was then purchased by an "ex-partner" in the business. The ex-partner is also being sued for doing exactly what the defendant in my case did to some other investors.
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Aren't all partners entitled to review the books of the partnership? If GP commingled funds, then any book relevant to the commingled account is technically a partnership book. Just a hunch but maybe the Westlaws will know.
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Roger_Mudd posted:I have a case almost exactly like this but a little different. How are you handling it? It's a shakedown, clearly, but it's not enough to go to a district attorney, and you can't squeeze blood from a turnip. quote:
The partners are entitled to a review of the books according to this partnership agreement I'm looking at, but naturally the GP and the crooked LP's are withholding the information. That being said, thank you - I'll talk to the attorney I'm working for and go from there. Vote Republican fucked around with this message at 03:03 on May 27, 2013 |
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Solid Lizzie posted:Today is the day I do some Tort AMPs. I mean it.
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CmdrSmirnoff posted:The obvious solution is to keep the robes. Can't skip my call. No point in doing my bar courses and all 12 months of articling and not do an actual bar admission. I just feel lovely for making my boss pay for my robes while knowing I won't be staying.
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Green Crayons posted:AMPs are literally the best part of BarBri studying.
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Vote Republican posted:How are you handling it? It's a shakedown, clearly, but it's not enough to go to a district attorney, and you can't squeeze blood from a turnip. I'm suing to pierce to corporate veil and will get judgment against him personally.
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Does me posting a news article here about an open case, without comment other than to call it hosed up poo poo, violate my duty not to discuss a pending case with the media? Is this forum considered media? What if I just link to the article on https://www.adn.com and call it "Tied For First Place Worst Crime Ever Committed?" This is an ethical quandary I have.
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Would it make, I don't know, Wyatt Earp or someone roll over in his grave? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Fitzgerald
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yronic heroism posted:Would it make, I don't know, Wyatt Earp or someone roll over in his grave? Yes.
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BigHead posted:Does me posting a news article here about an open case, without comment other than to call it hosed up poo poo, violate my duty not to discuss a pending case with the media? Is this forum considered media? What if I just link to the article on https://www.adn.com and call it "Tied For First Place Worst Crime Ever Committed?" Yeeeeeep make sure that one never gets out tia
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 What the gently caress, Anchorage?
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I just had my first Hamilton interview. The 20 minute interview ended up lasting 45 minutes and the partner and associate conducting the interview both did the same undergrad at the same university, so we had plent to talk about. I have a pretty good feeling about this one.
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BigHead posted:Does me posting a news article here about an open case, without comment other than to call it hosed up poo poo, violate my duty not to discuss a pending case with the media? Is this forum considered media? What if I just link to the article on https://www.adn.com and call it "Tied For First Place Worst Crime Ever Committed?" You can leave off the 'hosed up poo poo' comment and be OK. Trust us a little; even non-prosecutors will come to the same conclusion. We'll even presume that you, as a prosecutor, feel the same way. Sometimes, the only 'win' is convincing the state not to kill a third person.
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