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Abugadu posted:To update the OP, I'm back at the Guam AG's office. Did you consolidate Grumblefish's posts among his different names? MaximumBob fucked around with this message at 03:40 on May 7, 2010 |
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HiddenReplaced posted:Wow, that's out of left field. I mean I loved The Critic, too, but I didn't think it would get Jon Lovitz on the bench. Lovitz would fly through confirmation hearings. "What's your opinion on abortion?" "It STINKS!" (all Republicans vote yea)
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May 10, 2010 03:48
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HiddenReplaced posted:10-8, I thought you were lying about how awesome your job was. Now that I'm working for an agency I have come to realize that you were downplaying it so we wouldn't kill you and wear your skin. 10-8 is on a two week vacation and will probably never see this post. Meanwhile I spent all day writing a motion that will almost certainly not be granted. I think the moral of this story is that I'm doing it wrong.
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May 13, 2010 05:29
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Lancelot posted:I somehow fumbled my way into getting an offer from a BigLaw firm for a graduate position as a tax lawyer. This is what I've spent the last five years working towards. Because you accepted a job where, working within the confines of a tax code that already greatly favors the very wealthy, you will try to bend the law to get them even more favorable treatment and inevitably some rear end in a top hat like me will come along and kick over your sandcastle?
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May 20, 2010 17:05
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evilweasel posted:Anyone have any tips on being a summer associate? Take full advantage of the free lunches. Order dessert.
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May 21, 2010 01:00
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Lykourgos posted:Dear Lord, the pain. I wonder what usually happens at that point; do you just fail the bar, or do you go into overtime? I reckon I might simply take it by hand really. Hey in all seriousness you're a smart guy, if you just actually put in some time prepping you'll pass the bar no problem. I'd just hand write it - the $100 to take it on a computer is basically wasted money.
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May 28, 2010 14:33
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vibrantglow posted:thanks, won that bet. my friend was convinced they weren't. sucks for him and his embellished story I'm saying it's maybe a 20% chance they read his personal statements. Sure they've got it but how much time do they devote to each file if their cursory background check doesn't raise any flags?
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Jun 3, 2010 23:31
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Lykourgos posted:In criminal court your motions, PCPs, and appellate briefs are all read. Every argument, no matter how retarded, is responded to, as though all parties were guard dogs barking at the slightest hint of an intruder. People are so diligent that they will even research and reconstruct a nonsense argument so that they have something of actual substance to rebut. This might be because of the higher stakes and superior questions posed by criminal law, though. This is true of tax court too actually, so I'm guessing it's not the higher stakes and superior questions.
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Jun 5, 2010 05:01
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Mookie posted:The only thing less sociable and weirder than a transactional attorney is a tax attorney. This is fact, not opinion. Dude, you're a liquid-dieting biglaw associate whose only regret is that it's impossible to bill 25 hours in a day. Who are you calling unsociable and weird?
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Jun 19, 2010 04:50
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Lykourgos posted:I'll have you know that such time tested judicial procedures are still in place in this very nation. And in our very city!
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Jun 30, 2010 03:44
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TheBestDeception posted:As much as I don't like agreeing with this gimmick, the bar exam pisses me off for this reason. 90% of the Texas bar is from knowing specific rules about specific areas of law, many of which are irrelevant. 10% (MPT) tests actual and useful lawyering skills that one should have picked up during law school. Get over it. The bar exam isn't about seeing if you're fit to practice law, it's about providing barriers to entry so you people don't come take our jobs. What we really need are longer bar exams with ridiculous amounts of required memorization, character and fitness standards which are only questionably constitutional, and ideally some sort of labyrinth full of minotaurs.
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Jul 22, 2010 05:02
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Abugadu posted:It would still beat 'Reached level 80 in WoW' on the resume, which is what a disturbingly large percentage of grads are doing. As someone who has both jobs and a level 80 to his name, do I want to put the level 80 above or below the jobs on my resume? And do I need to state my spec?
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Aug 3, 2010 03:10
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GregNorc posted:People actually use multiple highlighter colors? I never really highlighted at all. If I really wanted to remember something about a case I'd make a note of it, but I usually didn't read and if something came up in class it would be in my class notes.
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Aug 7, 2010 23:48
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Mookie posted:And here I am about to turn 29 and feeling old. Thank god. How did I fail to realize I'm older than you? Your posts always make me think you're in your late thirties.
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Aug 12, 2010 03:33
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10-8 posted:Congrats! What if, at the moment of death, I am alone? Does that count?
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Aug 15, 2010 04:17
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TheMadMilkman posted:Yes, but see, in Lykourgos's rather distorted world view, the owner should have recognized him as a member of the gentry and offered him a table ahead of the unfortunate bourgeois that also frequent the establishment. Then he could properly spend the morning talking out his rear end and not tipping because he's above such "common nonsense" or some poo poo like that. I don't read his posts anymore. To be fair, this is actually a common view among Chicago law enforcement. Pretty soon he'll be threatening to bring the health inspectors down on places where he doesn't get seats fast enough, and his descent into the machine here will be complete.
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Aug 15, 2010 04:18
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Stunt Rock posted:People who work in criminal law generally are generally much nicer because you see the same people constantly. That's not as common in civil law, unless you work in a niche market. Here, the nicest and most reasonable attorneys to deal with are usually involved in criminal work or family law. Tax is a pretty small community, and every private practitioner in a city basically goes up against the same office every case. Yet a decent number of them try to pull all kinds of underhanded poo poo.
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Aug 25, 2010 00:58
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Tetrix posted:forums cancer light text gives me a headache The key is to shun the afflicted.
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Paisano posted:Thanks for the replies. I'm a little surprised I didn't get a chorus of boos, so I'm actually pretty encouraged right now. I didn't expect it would be easy to get a job in prosecution, but I'm a little surprised at how difficult it is. I guess I thought that most people really wouldn't have any interest because of the pay. Still - if I'm going to give up on a dream because it is difficult to attain it isn't much of a dream anyway. I don't know if you keep up on the thread, but just in case: you honestly cannot trust Lykourgos. And I know a number of people who've applied to the Cook County State's Attorney's Office, and a few who've gotten hired. There's no rhyme or reason at all to who got hired and who didn't: experience at that office, grades, experience in other prosecutors' offices, nothing seems to correlate with getting hired there based on this tiny sample. So keep that in mind - it's as much of a crapshoot as anything else.
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Sep 10, 2010 03:19
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in absentia posted:Today in Professional Responsibilities, someone insisted that the code of professional ethics was actually a hindrance to society because it prevents lawyers from breaking the law. His evidence was first that "civil rights used to be illegal so if lawyers cared about laws African Americans wouldn't be able to vote right now." His final trump card after the instructor disagreed was that "if lawyers actually had to follow the law, we'd have never revolted against the British Empire and THERE WOULD BE NO AMERICA." Were there no state disciplinary committees to disbar people in the 60s?
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Sep 15, 2010 00:03
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Vander posted:I'm giving a mock opening statement for class today. I'm wearing a sexy 3 piece suit and am thinking of delivering it without the jacket on. Good idea or bad idea? If you're not wearing the jacket you're no longer wearing a suit. Ask yourself if you should wear a suit when you make your opening or not.
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Sep 23, 2010 23:03
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CaptainScraps posted:Jesus loving christ why are they still making me do this loving bullshit work without paying me for it? I practice before a court that requires parties to stipulate to the fullest extent possible. It still came up repeatedly during my very first trial.
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Sep 28, 2010 05:02
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Direwolf posted:So should we be focusing on applying to jobs or focusing on studying for exams? I only applied to a few come December and have put off summer employment things (as a 1L) until after Thursday when I'm all done... Did I do A Bad Thing? Am I screwed? Studying. Your 1L grades are basically going to determine your future. No pressure.
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Petey posted:Well, IMSA is one of the best schools in the country, and the suburban schools like Naperville are terrific, but there are plenty of private schools that send kids to sexy places that you might not have heard of but they're still sending them. Of course if even if you go to one of the best schools in the country (  ) if you go to undergrad and law school at public institutions and then get a job working for the federal government, you've pretty much wasted all that advantage.
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Dec 19, 2010 20:52
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PatrickKilpatrick posted:Shouldn't you leave your GPA off your resume if it's a 3.03? I don't understand this thinking. Do you think someone is going to see a resume without someone's poo poo GPA on it and go "hmm, this guy left his GPA off. It's probably because he's got great grades but is very modest. Let's bring him in!"
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Also honestly she speaks Japanese, which is a more useful skill than 90% of law grads have. Of course, I'm not sure Houston law firms are the best place to market that skill, but still.
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Dec 21, 2010 21:09
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BigHead posted:I would imagine that any inference a recruiter might draw is better than admitting that you're in the bottom quartile. I think the only inference to be drawn from a resume without a GPA is "this person has bad grades."
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Dec 21, 2010 21:13
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smoke detector posted:That's a pretty simplistic way of looking at things, especially since some law schools do not allow students to put GPAs on their resumes. Are these law schools anyone should be hiring from? e: Seriously, I'd like to know how a law school can possibly defend that policy. If you're not giving letter grades that's one thing, but if you are and you don't let students put GPAs on their resumes I don't see that as remotely defensible. MaximumBob fucked around with this message at 21:40 on Dec 21, 2010 |
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gvibes posted:Michigan does not allow. What's their justification for this? Also this doesn't seem like "not allowing:" quote:The Office of Career Services strongly discourages putting your law school GPA on your e: On further reflection I probably wouldn't want to work in an office with someone who'd spent three years in Ann Arbor anyway, so this might work to my advantage. MaximumBob fucked around with this message at 21:54 on Dec 21, 2010 |
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Dec 21, 2010 21:49
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Defleshed posted:He supports Something Awful completely just by re-reg fees I think law school was actually a lot of fun... That has nothing to do with whether going is a good idea, since you pay tens of thousands of dollars for it and can't stay forever.
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Dec 29, 2010 03:06
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Petey posted:Wouldn't that mean that the players have even more power to sue the gently caress out of the NFL should the union decertify? More power than what? Baseball players? Probably. But the non-statutory labor exemption doesn't just apply to sports leagues.
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Jan 12, 2011 06:00
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Petey posted:e: the point I'm trying to get at is - suppose the owners lock out the players and the union decertifies. How much power do the players have to force the owners' hands to make sure there is football next season? Probably none. It would probably take years to resolve in litigation.
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Abugadu posted:The owners might have the ability to challenge the decertification, which would string things out. I didn't mean the players wouldn't win*, but I'm not sure decertifying would prevent a lockout. Maybe it would, but the Freeman McNeil case (which I think is what you're talking about) took years. I suspect the NFL and players will come to some understanding to resume playing before a suit gets fully litigated, if it comes to that. *: I'm not sure that we can say either way. The owners are not currently violating antitrust laws because they and the players are governed by a CBA. When it expires, if the union decertifies, only then do antitrust laws start governing; theoretically, the owners could probably then start acting within the bounds of antitrust law. I don't expect them to do so, but I think it's technically possible. e: To be clear, I'm just guessing on that last bit - this isn't my area at all, but I think my speculation makes sense. MaximumBob fucked around with this message at 06:21 on Jan 12, 2011 |
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Ainsley McTree posted:Was that Bill Nye? Yes, yes it is.
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Solomon Grundy posted:In terms of making ends meet, we do what we can. Every time Suze Orman shows up on Oprah talking about ways to cut your expenses, we already do all that stuff. We clip coupons, and comparison shop. I get my suits at Men's Wearhouse. Somewhere, a chill just went down Mookie's spine.
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10-8 posted:It's been covered already by others but yes, you can deduct it. I was able to max out my student loan interest deduction last year because I consolidated. It was nice since that was the only year I could take the deduction before the AGI limits took it away from me. This is why I'm getting married - I can double that AGI limit and get back in the student loan interest deduction game.
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Feb 14, 2011 02:27
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10-8 posted:Yes, but what does she get out of this deal with the devil? Cross examined, mostly.
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HiddenReplaced posted:I didn't realize this. The single limit is 75k, right? If you're married does it go up to 150? Yeah, that's exactly right.
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HooKars posted:People actually take off for Valentine's Day? Even junior associates? That would not fly at either firm I've worked at. Thank you for reminding me that my job, which lets me take off almost whenever I want to, is objectively better than working at a law firm.
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Defleshed posted:Same! Woop! Yeah, it was nice being like "Alright, gotta leave by three to go make a Valentine's Day feast. Gonna pack it in," and just heading home.
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