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Two of my profs this semester were Yale SJDs and two were Yale JDs. The two SJDs were foreign born and educated. So my advice is to go back in time and be born in Germany.
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A friend of a friend I had just met made that "oooh" sound and her eyes got wider when it came up that I was a law student and then everyone in the room made fun of her for it.
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May 9, 2010 04:40
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JudicialRestraints posted:I don't play with little imaginary robots no only little imaginary rules
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May 11, 2010 07:53
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Green Crayons posted:SC Clerks are Candidates, the President is Jacob, the nomination process is the Island, the MiB are opposing party senators. My LRW final was legit lost-themed, I had to represent Hugo Reyes, sole proprietor of Reyes of Light vs John Locke, representative of the Island Condominium Poject
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May 11, 2010 22:58
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Elotana posted:The one thing I could never figure out was how to close a sentence that ended both a quote and a parenthetical. (This is an example of a line like that, where you realize "hey, I don't know what the gently caress to do at the end here."). yeah, no outer period
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May 13, 2010 20:14
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These droids to Ben Kenobi for life, then to Luke and his heirs! It's our only hope!
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Apr 4, 2012 02:48
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You probably didn't sound like you shared his delusionally high view of atlanta
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Apr 13, 2012 02:51
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I live in Austin. You're all depressing yankees
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Apr 13, 2012 04:00
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Phil Moscowitz posted:Lmao Texas is not the south Texas isn't the south, but Austin isn't really Texas, and you're still all Yankees In other news, I think I got a public interest job doing admininistrative litigation. Actually a paid internship that might be a full time job when it's over. What are all of the things you know about admin lit? HolySwissCheese fucked around with this message at 05:11 on Apr 13, 2012 |
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Apr 13, 2012 05:08
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joat mon posted:Apparently you are, too. You know it's weird, I say y'all as often as possible out loud, but I almost never type it. I think it's another way law school has ruined the way I think and write.
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Apr 13, 2012 05:25
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gret posted:Any state that has a Jefferson Davis statue on its state Capitol grounds qualifies as being in the south. It's actually looking down at the Capitol from the top of the hill at the center of the university, but ya, that's embarrassing.
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Apr 13, 2012 06:10
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Lilosh posted:If you're representing the agency, just show up, say "Chevron, bitches," open your briefcase, take a beer out of it, and then sit down and drink it. Woo. I think like half of respondents default (especially the paraprofessionals [professionals whose license only requires a two-year degree]), too, so that's something to look forward to.
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Apr 14, 2012 00:53
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On the topic of dodging student loan debt, I've been keeping this scheme in my back pocket: I'm a Canadian/USA dual citizen, so I can move to Canada and stop paying my loans. They sue me in US court on the debt, and I don't appear/default. Then they have to sue me in Canadian court to enforce the foreign judgment. While student loan debt isn't dischargeable in US bankruptcy, the debt resulting from the Canadian court's judgment enforcing the USA judgments is dischargeable in Canadian bankruptcy. Plan C is to somehow become permanently and severely disabled.
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Apr 18, 2012 19:37
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gret posted:Patent boutiques are full of conservatives for some reason. Being a science major, an autist, and a libertarian are all highly correlated.
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Apr 20, 2012 00:52
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I had a professor in law school at Texas who was an Australian philosophy/law guy and he was awesome as heck and I got an A, so go for it I guess
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Apr 20, 2012 16:45
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Prefer the Uniball Jetstreams to the Pilot G-2. Sorry I can't agree with your timekeeping recommendation Tau.
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Apr 20, 2012 18:25
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Roger_Mudd posted:Uni-ball Signo Micro 207 or death! I actually mostly use Fisher Space Pen refills in a custom-carved pen shell that I got as a gift. I also have a few vintage Parker fountain pens that are kind of fun (like $15-30ish each on eBay). But if I went into a Staples tomorrow and had to buy a pen, it would be a Jetstream so deal w/ it
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Apr 20, 2012 21:31
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nm posted:Private video conferencing with inmates at a jail 40 mi away. Truly we have entered the 21st century. Can you look deep into their souls and decide if they really done it over Skype? Or is image fidelity too poor to carry guilt/innocence?
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Apr 20, 2012 22:02
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Con law is kind of interesting but the first half of 1L con law is so loving boring, holy poo poo I want the entire week we spent on Marbury back
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Apr 21, 2012 02:20
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The one thing I can say about my con law class is I started law school kind of conservative (const interp-wise, not socially/politically), but then I read a quote in my con law textbook from then-Justice T Marshall where he was like "people say I'm not true to the const, but its hard to be true to the original intent of a document that explicitly endorsed slavery, slave trade, death penalty, and non-universal suffrage" and I was like "whelp,  "
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Apr 21, 2012 03:42
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Say you destroyed them and then take them home and if it turns out you were supposed to destroy them then good and if you weren't then it's all good 
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Apr 25, 2012 03:16
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HiddenReplaced posted:What if I just took a trip to Vegas once a year and "lost" a lot of money? Wouldn't you report your losses on your tax return for the AGI deduction? Technically you could have forgotten to because it isn't required, but it's hard to say you were sophisticated enough to do all that other poo poo and then forgot to claim your gambling losses. edit: actually looked it up and you have to win money before you can write off any losses in the same year, so ya go for it.
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Apr 25, 2012 15:44
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A guy in a lobster costume barged into my wills and estates class and proposed to his girlfriend. Don't go, no jobs, die in the arms of a lobsterman Note: the person next to me in class was on FB at the time
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Apr 27, 2012 01:00
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Dewey Ballantine has been teetering for ages. I used to work with some Dewey defectors who had left for stabler pastures.
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Apr 28, 2012 04:05
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I would rather have comp time than more money, but I think my circumstances are special.
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Apr 28, 2012 15:58
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entris posted:I scanned this from an old book on probate practice: I started reading that just like any other book. I read the first few words of each line and waited to see a case or statute cite. About half way through, I figured I would juts download an outline edit: can anyone share some flowcharts for wills and estates? stuff like intestate succession would be great. HolySwissCheese fucked around with this message at 16:31 on Apr 30, 2012 |
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Apr 30, 2012 16:04
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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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May 1, 2012 01:42
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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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May 2, 2012 03:31
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First time I ever opened my Wills textbook was about 1/3 of the way through the final today. I had the ballerest outline and it was all multiple choice so books
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May 3, 2012 02:23
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what's a counsel then? I'm skeptical about this whole "words" and "meanings" business
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May 3, 2012 14:31
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PatrickKilpatrick posted:Exam on Monday morning, asked a friend for an outline today and he sent me over 150 pages. Don't print all of the outline as one doc. Copy each section to its own word doc and give it a really descriptive one-line header that repeats on top of every page. Print 2x pages per sheet (so two columns on each sheet, each column = a page in Word) - that means half as much page turning during the final. DO NOT print double-sided tho. Staple each major section as its own packet, so you have 10 mini outlines. Generally, you can figure out the main issue each Q is getting at, and only having to pick up and thumb though the 5 relevant pages is nice. Making your outline less cumbersome to find things in is almost as good as having read it beforehand.
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May 10, 2012 02:12
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Just heard I get 3 months' funding from my law school to do public interest work in internship of my choice (litigating for my state government) during the period post bar exam but pre bar results. Hoping to bust my loving rear end off and get hired full-time once I'm licensed. Can anyone please tell me what I should know about working the state? I worked for a different agency last fall and it was awesome as heck and dear god I hope all state agencies are awesome as heck.
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Jul 15, 2012 07:07
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TheBestDeception posted:This is exactly what I did post-graduation. I got hired though i'd say it was at least sonewhat luck - a position opened up in the division I was working in, so my supervisor was able to recommend me to the hiring team. I bought plat to message you but you don't have plat =-/ hit me up at holy.swiss.cheese@gmail.com
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Jul 16, 2012 01:00
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Phil Moscowitz posted:Civil action filing fee: $350 He's a great judge, though. Despite having a reputation for being conservative, he issued an injunction against Texas's latest anti-abortion bill, but the 5th Circuit shot it down.
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Jul 18, 2012 15:17
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Smudgie Buggler posted:So, today I got paid to take a restorative afternoon constitutional. Technically I was delivering a brief to a barrister's chambers on the other side of the CBD, but it was basically just a nice walk on an otherwise-sleepy afternoon. My walk cost the client $180. When I was a paralegal, we charged a client thousands of dollars for me to fly to Houston to collect some personal property he had forgotten in a hotel. It's a funny old business.
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Jul 19, 2012 16:56
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Really, more than anything else, you exist to conspicuously remind everyone involved about the 5th and 6th Amendments so that the police don't go power tripping on us innocents
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Jul 19, 2012 18:19
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woozle wuzzle posted:As much as bar study sucks, nailing an exam question is like a law orgasm. I guess on the basis of "who else gonna marry a girl with a bunch of stretch marks?"
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Jul 20, 2012 21:11
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Secured transactions is easy, just go with whoever perfected first, or, if there's any confusion as to who is perfected, go with whichever disposition is least equitable or satisfying to the parties involved.
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Boosted_C5 posted:Perfection by (1) Filing Financing Statement w/ VA SCC, (2) Possession/Control At least in Texas, you just have to write "files statement with appropriate recording office" A big gotcha on our exam is that someone will have an interest in real property (e.g. fixtures) but records it with the Sec of State will have inferior claim re someone who files at the local county real estate office.
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