Going To Law School

sorry for showing you that site. no really i'm not.

burt would be so lucky to have a friend like Hurting in law school.

My torts prof said, "Never trust your friends. They'll stab you in the back."

:D

How do you know I wouldn't stab him in the back?

because then they'll talk about you in torts

You mean because I didn't try to discourage him from going in order to increase my chances of getting a job by .00000000000001% like most law students do?

Pretty much.

Extra Credit: being friends with "Hurting 2" constitutes assumption of the risk - Y/N/M?

Not an unreasonable one given the standards of the industry.

i can see burt in one of these

Why being a law clerk can be exciting.

I clerked for a year in that court.

Female Court Security Officer: 10-4 control, we need an ambulance. 10-4. In 10-C we need an ambulance to be called, please.
Control: 10-4.
Court Reporter: Is she all right, Carolyn?
Female Court Security Officer: She wants an ambulance.
Court Reporter: Good. All right. You will have to put this over.
Courtroom Deputy Clerk: No shit, Sherlock.

You will have to put this over

what does this mean

They need to continue it to another day.

http://idlewords.com/2008/04/seeking_bedbug_legal_aid.htm

Friend of a friend looking for a lawyer for their anti-bedbug website.

This list looked like *fun* so I ordered a few of the books. Just started Discipline and Punish, which I've always wanted to read anyway.

http://www.amazon.com/Favorite-Pre-Law-School-Recommendations-Amazon/lm/3GJSC216GWISB

read One L

already read it

I'm also poking around in Law School Confidential, which honestly seems like a lot of filler : a little useful information. "Make sure you have housing arranged before law school. You want to find somewhere quiet. Get a big desk." GEE THANKS

I guess I'm forgetting that a lot of entering OneLs have never lived anywhere outside their parents' home and a dorm room.

hi dere

Aaron did you get my e-mail? I couldn't tell if the webmail thing worked

Re: job market for Brooklyn Law School grads. Not too great at the moment, but Hurting and Burt will be in better shape in 3 years when the economy isn't in the shitter.

Looking back at Law School Confidential, 90% of his advice was wrong -- although I did the color-coded briefing through all of law school and that was actually kind of helpful.

Didn't get your email Hurting... Try this one: w@rsh@w.@@ron at g✧@i✧.c✧✧ -- @ = a

lolol

I accepted at BLS today.

Didn't re-e-mail you yet Aaron. Will do so soon.

You chose BLS over Cardozo and/or American, is that right, Hurting? What prompted your decision? (if I may ask; feel free to tell me to f--k off)

My worry with Card0zo is the whole job thing ... I only got 20k/year. I'd like to do something in the government (family's in Big Law and it truly sounds like my idea of hell).

I chose BLS because they gave me a full ride and Cardozo couldn't match it.

Stanton, try to talk them into upping your offer next year if you do well.

Brooklyn gave you a free ride after you accepted at Cardoza? Da-yum.

i no rite

I think I get it though -- they must set aside some scholarship money and deliberately wait until their rival schools (Cardozo being the most obvious one) have likely doled out their financial aid. They probably knew that a student like me was either looking at Fordham with no money (actually I was waitlisted) or a Cardozo-level school with money

They made me a can't-refuse offer at a time when Cardozo couldn't match.

Fordham's getting ridiculous with their standards lately. Everyone I talked to who applied was either rejected outright or waitlisted. Might as well just aim for Columbia or something.

I sent you a g-mail, aaron, did you get it?

The single worst time of a law student's life is waiting for the bar exam results. I have 5.5 hours more to wait.

Jeez, waiting for your test results is even stressing ME out. I remember that special flavor of torture very well.

I really hope you pass, for both our sakes.

You ain't kidding, girl.

This shit is not joke. I mean, I'm already resolved to take the thing again in July if don't pass - I really like what I do, and I think I could be pretty to very good at it some day.

But I gots to be licensed.

5.33 hours remain...

Is it normal to feel like you may be making a terrible terrible mistake, say, every other day as you approach OneL?

Yes. I mean, what you're feeling is within a range of normal reactions. It could be fear of the unknown, knee-jerk buyer's remorse, or a real fear that you'll have to confront. You won't be able to tell until you actually go through a semester or two (I'd say two) and perhaps a summer internship. If, at that point, you feel the same way, maybe you should reconsider your career choice.

So I've quit porn . . . .

-- Hurting 2

Or maybe your just reacting to this.

haha

man, I knew that post was going to haunt me

Maybe now I can realize my dream and be a "Dude Who Is A Bit Zingy But Never Get Credit For Being So."

Yes Hurting 2, I am currently very nervous out about this decision. I'm having trouble sleeping. I haven't filled out my loan forms yet.

Of course the whole, "you'll never find a job as a lawyer! you'll be a temp slave for life! ahahah!" thing hasn't helped.

Yeah, well you I'm not surprised. No offense. I just mean that you're kind of doing this ultimately for the same slightly murky reasons I'm doing it, so not surprised you feel the same doubts. I only just did my FAFSA yesterday (btw it only takes like 20 minutes so just get it over with).

You've been reading JDUnderground too, haven't you.

Where are you getting this? Is the economy for first-year attorneys that bad?

I've always thought about becoming a lawyer, but what still floats around in my brain is, "yo dude, what about that screenplay maaaan? move to LA and make movies!" and I'm like "brain, I haven't had a good idea in years" and then my brain's like "you're just being lazy" and I'm like, "dude, brain, relax"

haha, mine is "I really should have gone and gotten that composition degree. I could go to a commercial program and do jingles and soundtrack music for bread"

or

"I really should have just dropped out of bourgeois lifestyle and moved into a warehouse in Philadelphia like my friends did and made experimental noise all day"