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blarzgh posted:Can't threaten criminal charges to gain an advantage in a civil matter In Texas we can. It just can't be *solely* for advantage in a civil matter. Texas is awesome.
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WhiskeyJuvenile posted:The trick to the patent bar isn't knowing any specifics about patent law, it's knowing what chapter of the MPEP that it's covered in. That's kinda comforting. So, why the hell does an open book, searchable, multiple-choice exam have a 50% pass rate?
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Roger_Mudd posted:In Texas we can. It just can't be *solely* for advantage in a civil matter. Texas is awesome.
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Sep 24, 2014 21:51
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Folly posted:That's kinda comforting. Lot of people who don't pay attention to very precise questions about minutiae.
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Kalman posted:Lot of people who don't pay attention to very precise questions about minutiae. This The questions are asinine and usually have 2 "almost right" answers and one "actually right" one (This is purely from my experience with practice exams - I haven't taken the real thing yet) When I look at what I get wrong and why - it's basically because the test makers purposely put in a question they want you to get wrong
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blarzgh posted:Can't threaten criminal charges to gain an advantage in a civil matter, holmes. She was being questioned over committing bankruptcy fraud, and her lie was in furtherance of said fraud. Judge basically frowned and that was it.
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WhiskeyJuvenile posted:The trick to the patent bar isn't knowing any specifics about patent law, it's knowing what chapter of the MPEP that it's covered in.
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woozle wuzzle posted:She was being questioned over committing bankruptcy fraud, and her lie was in furtherance of said fraud. Judge basically frowned and that was it. Here in the northern district of Texas they are actually prosecuting bk fraud. The U.S. AG wasn't doing it so they got the postmaster general involved some how.
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Folly posted:I regularly draw blanks on incredibly simple concepts of law. No, you're avoiding the unintentional creation of an attorney-client relationship.  Folly posted:So, why the hell does an open book, searchable, multiple-choice exam have a 50% pass rate? Not studying or studying wrong. I met a guy who studied by reading the MPEP - multiple fails. I've met people who thought their 3L patent/IP class had prepared them - fails. My passing combo was the PLI patent bar prep course and a week of hiding as I studied. I don't know if its still possible, but used materials used to be available on ebay for a quarter the price of the unsullied materials.
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If there were a hypothetical room hypothetically called "Professor Funk's understanding of Criminal Law," every time I go to Criminal Law class would be the functional equivalent of tossing a live grenade into that room. 
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patentmagus posted:No, you're avoiding the unintentional creation of an attorney-client relationship. Most of the legal questions I get aren't about specific matters, just concepts and headline cases. People want me to validate their opinion of Hobby Lobby or whatever. It's still embarrassing when you fail to remember the concept of "elements of a claim" for several minutes, or if you can't remember the word for "derivative work," or you utterly fail to explain why it's important that we have evidentiary standards at trial. There are all things I still seem to know, eventually, but because I never talk about it like I did in school I just can't bring that knowledge up at the drop of a hat anymore. The one guy that had a real matter got referred to a practicing attorney friend of mine. (I also carry insurance.) I'll check ebay for the materials. I need to find one of those audiobook type study guides. Something I can use to get a good overview of the vocabulary, if nothing else. So far, patent law sounds like its own language.
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Professor Funk posted:If there were a hypothetical room hypothetically called "Professor Funk's understanding of Criminal Law," every time I go to Criminal Law class would be the functional equivalent of tossing a live grenade into that room. Criminal law is like art. Most people think they have a pretty good idea what it is. Generally representational, demonstrating technical proficiency and nearly universally and immediately recognizable as art. That was your great-great-grandpa's art. Now it's elephant crap, piss, paint spatter and women rubbing chocolate on themselves that is barely understandable only after years of charting the history of its divergence from actual art.
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Professor Funk posted:If there were a hypothetical room hypothetically called "Professor Funk's understanding of Criminal Law," every time I go to Criminal Law class would be the functional equivalent of tossing a live grenade into that room. Do we need to set up a thread outline bank for this dude?
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Professor Funk posted:If there were a hypothetical room hypothetically called "Professor Funk's understanding of Criminal Law," every time I go to Criminal Law class would be the functional equivalent of tossing a live grenade into that room. Get "Understanding Criminal Law" - its even in the OP Guess what it does?
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The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law is a lot better than you'd think if you're totally lost and just need a place to start. Edit: It's written for layman. It's really good for explaining these concepts to co-workers who say thing like "I'd love to be on a jury. Hang'em all!" Folly fucked around with this message at 12:27 on Sep 25, 2014 |
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Sep 25, 2014 12:21
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My buddy made this: http://www.bestlaw.io/quote:When you read a document—like a case, statute, or law review article—Bestlaw adds a toolbar with these features:
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Petey posted:My buddy made this: http://www.bestlaw.io/ MASHING INSTALL!
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My firm only has Lexis. 
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Petey posted:My buddy made this: http://www.bestlaw.io/ Petey is this going to collect my WL password and sell it to solos on the black market? Be honest. edit: actually, I don;'t care either way
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Petey, your friend should put in an option to hide the whole thing and leave just the "don't log me out" function running. My WL Next has gotten absurd levels of "Ask Toolbar" and "Search Menu" and "Frog Toolbar" and "AOL Toolbar" and it's seriously eating into the space for actually reading cases. A full quarter of my WL Next screen is eaten up by crap. I realize I should get a "real monitor" rather than this 1280x1024 one, but the courts don't ask my opinion on IT stuff. EDIT: Seriously, all of this poo poo should be toggleable. The highlighting on page numbers. Displaying the toolbar. Pieces of the toolbar. Ideally he'd work his toolbar up into the WL Next menus/bars but I'm sure that's way harder than I think it is so will never happen. This extension is neat and I love the idea of getting proper bluebook cites out of WL and having things be more convenient, but at the moment it's too intrusive for me to use. I realize I sound like a crotchety old man but having the page numbers be highlighted disrupts my reading because my eyes are always drawn to the highlighting. What I'm saying is this is the perfect extension for someone on law review who has to do a lot of copyworking. That makes sense, because he's a law student and likely doing copywork all the time, but it means he doesn't have to use WL to actually do research all that much. Arcturas fucked around with this message at 16:39 on Sep 25, 2014 |
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I started to type pretty much the same thing, but you put it better than I would have. Looks useful for a law student, but would be more intrusive than helpful to me in practice.
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Bold Robot posted:My firm only has Lexis. My office is switching from west to lexis next month. It is gonna suck.
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nm posted:My office is switching from west to lexis next month. It is gonna suck. I am not looking forward to going back to my firm and its Lexis-only set of research options. I swear people who use & like Lexis have Stockholm syndrome.
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Arcturas posted:I am not looking forward to going back to my firm and its Lexis-only set of research options. I swear people who use & like Lexis have Stockholm syndrome. Lexis is Android to Westlaw's iOS - and I love it.
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nm posted:My office is switching from west to lexis next month. It is gonna suck. We still have both, but we recently took a vote of all firm timekeepers who had used Lexis in the past year (there were only about 20, and I was apparently one of them) if we wanted to keep Lexis. We unanimously voted no. So far nothing has come of that, but yes, Lexis is the absolute worst.
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Soothing Vapors posted:We still have both, but we recently took a vote of all firm timekeepers who had used Lexis in the past year (there were only about 20, and I was apparently one of them) if we wanted to keep Lexis. We unanimously voted no. So far nothing has come of that, but yes, Lexis is the absolute worst. gently caress YOU *screamed so loud droplets of blood spurt from tattered throat walls and exit mouth*
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West is superior, of course. But once down on the Lexis level, I think old Lexis is better than Lexis Advance (which is so sloooooow). But they're even phasing out old Lexis. Sigh.
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If you want to understand criminal law down to its bare essence, go out and start incrementally committing crimes. Can't beat hands-on, firsthand experience. Who else is excited for "How to Get Away With Murder" tonight?
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tau posted:Who else is excited for "How to Get Away With Murder" tonight? Eh, in a decade or so it might have an Ed Wood quality to it I suppose.
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Speaking of exist, my local Lexis solo sales guy is pretty much the most persistent, dogged, relentless person I've ever met who wasn't some crazed litigant trying to get me to file weird suits years after the SOL.
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Ive been at my current job two years. I've tried a ton of family law and other civil cases to the bench, one case to a jury (no criminal), and argued three cases to courts of appeals. That said, I've topped out at my pay grade, and I hate my current job amd my current city. I should be looking for new gigs now right?
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Hot Dog Day #91 posted:Ive been at my current job two years. I've tried a ton of family law and other civil cases to the bench, one case to a jury (no criminal), and argued three cases to courts of appeals. That said, I've topped out at my pay grade, and I hate my current job amd my current city. What kind of portables do you have?
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blarzgh posted:What kind of portables do you have? None.
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Hot Dog Day #91 posted:None. Nows a much better market than a few years ago. State Bar job blast emails used to be 5-6 new posts every two weeks, now its 30-40 most times. If there's no risk your employer finds out (or cares) that you're shopping around, it never hurts. Be wary - more than a few younger attorneys (myself included) have had an experience with a really lovely work situation. Watch for the red flags during the interview. High turnover, solo practitioners looking to "pay-as-you-go", Husband/Wife partners, lots of paralegals to very few attorneys. Dallas, Austin and Houston all seem to be doing well right now.
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blarzgh posted:Husband/Wife partners Had a class action against a husband/wife plaintiff's firm - halfway through the case they got divorced and poo poo got UGLY. It was so entertaining. The partner leading the case on my side started overtly flirting with the wife during calls/meetings where the ex-husband wasn't present, and then would commiserate with her ex-husband about how terrible ex-wives are. Their disdain for each other ended up working in favor of my client and we settled for significantly less.
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HiddenReplaced posted:The partner leading the case on my side started overtly flirting with the wife during calls/meetings where the ex-husband wasn't present, Love it.
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Well poo poo. Looks like no used materials for me. And very little usefulness on prepared guides all around. My exam is now scheduled for December 23rd, but...USPTO OED posted:The United States Patent and Trademark Office will update the content of the registration examination on October 4, 2014. The last date to take the current examination is September 29, 2014. No exams will be scheduled between September 29, 2014 and October 4, 2014. The updated examination will cover all material referred to in the Source Materials, including the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA). This deal gets worse all the time.
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Folly posted:Well poo poo. Looks like no used materials for me. And very little usefulness on prepared guides all around. My exam is now scheduled for December 23rd, but... A lot of the items will stay the same, and all you really need to know anyway is what chapter to search.
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Folly posted:This deal gets worse all the time. The biggest change is they're switching from the MPEP E8R9 to E9R0 If you've been using the current MPEP for your studying, you're fine - the exam is/was on the old version (which has a bunch of Federal Register Notices rather than the appropriately revised chapters Rumor is it will actually get slightly easier because of this
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Sovereign video from the UK, in which we learn the correct thing to do if you kill someone while driving.
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