Draile posted:

Are all the words on these last two pages still about downloading music

CmdrSmirnoff posted:

the only thing that's mean is you guys, to prospective students of our noble profession

gvibes posted:

177!

And I got loving waitlisted at Wisconsin.

HooKars posted:

Soooo... I got an offer at one of the firms I interviewed at last month!

Everyone have a drink for me. Only took one and a half years.

JudicialRestraints posted:

Do you have any idea on the turnaround for government callbacks in DC looks like?

7StoryFall posted:

That's because DC doesn't want us.

chinchilla posted:

Sorry, I hate to drag the thread off topic, but I have a quick question about law school.

Will anyone care if I've been on an undergrad mock trial team? Is it worth fitting into a very tight schedule? Or is it on the same level as paralegal work -- useful to get a taste of the profession, but holding no weight on an application?

e: Just to clarify, I read the OP and I get the idea that LSAT-GPA index trumps everything. But I also saw that mock trials / moot courts in law school are good resume fluff, so I figure it's worth asking.

Incredulous Red posted:

Lawyersaurus rex

tgm posted:

I haven't poked my head in here for a while, but I just wanted to note that I get to meet the man, the myth, the legend - Justice Scalia next Wednesday as he helps christen my TTT's new building.

CaptainScraps posted:

I'm working for $15/hour doing plaintiff's work.

gently caress law.

Vander posted:

Just about. This kid's the former star quarterback of the highschool football team. This accident gives him seizures so he can't play ball anymore. He's suing car driver's employer for lost earning capacity: College scholarships AND NFL career.

J Miracle posted:

My LR casenote won a writing contest...publication in the Food & Drug Law Journal plus 4 grand cash prize.

SUBMIT YOUR poo poo there's money to be made.

HiddenReplaced posted:

I walked out in the middle of a seminar yesterday when it went 1 minute over.

The seminar has 8 people.

It's a round table and I was sitting next to the professor.

Green Crayons posted:

Next time I see a 5 o'clock-and-change Grundy post, I can only assume some child out there isn't getting a healthy breakfast/lunch that day.

HiddenReplaced posted:

Not USAO. One of the alphabet soup agencies.

GregNorc posted:

Let's say, hypotheitically, someone has a not so great GPA (3.2ish) from a lower ranked (in the 30s) school.

If said person went and did a master's at a fancy name brand uni, and pulled a 4.0 in said master's, would that be looked at rather than undergrad GPA institution? Eg, now you're some guy from a fancy school with a 4.0 and decent LSAT rather than a guy with a (relatively) lovely GPA and unknown undergrad?

quote:

Countries with the best-performing school systems largely recruit teachers from the top third of high school and college graduates, while the United States has difficulty attracting its top students to the profession, a new report finds.

Salary is keeping some top graduates away, say the authors. A starting teacher in New York City makes about $45,000, while a starting lawyer makes $160,000.

Red Bean Juice posted:

Justice Breyer swung by today, and I got him to sign a comic

Bud Manstrong posted:

Had a client threaten to "liquidate" someone today.

More importantly

Stunt Rock posted:

Holland Oats posted:

CLS people, do you have any recommendations on which 1L elective I should take? Here are the options:

Law and Economics (Prof. Victor Goldberg)
Legislation (Prof. Richard Briffault)
Principles of Intellectual Property (Prof. Scott Hemphill)
Critical Legal Thought (Prof. Katherine Franke)
Foundations of the Regulatory State (Prof. Peter Strauss)
The United States and the International Legal System (Prof. Matthew Waxman)

I'm leaning toward Critical Legal Thought, Legislation, and the International class but I'm generally pretty open-minded.