Got my last grade back from the fall semester of law school.
Bid'ness Organizations, B+.
That officially puts me on the Dean's List again. 

It feels like haven't been on LJ that much in the last month or so ( Read more... )

So, as of today, all exams are done I officially have 1 semester of law school left. Today's exam sucked. 60 multiple choice, and one of the hardest I've taken since I started law school. But, there is an upside ( Read more... )

Classes ended Friday.  My first exam is Monday.  Second, on Tuesday.  Third, on Wednesday.  Joy.  Then I have like 6 days off until the final two.  Then, I will have one semester left of law school. Scary.

The class ending / exam starting schedule is a fucking nightmare.  We normally have like 4-5 days off between the end of classes and the start ( Read more... )

I had my last bankruptcy class today. We spent it going over previous bankruptcy final exams. There are four people in the class. When the class was over, the Prof walked out of the room. A classmate said, "Did we take the course he just reviewed?" Great. I can't wait for that exam ( Read more... )

"This is the hardest course offered at this school."
-My bankruptcy professor, in re to the Bankruptcy Law course I am taking.

Now, lets consider the source;

Prof. Richard B. Child
-A.B. Harvard University
-J.D. Harvard Law School
-Faculty since 1971
-Former trial attorney with the United States Food and Drug Administration

Great. I can't wait for the ( Read more... )

Justice Musmanno was a known wingnut. In a dissenting from a majority holding that Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer was not obscene, he wrote:

'Cancer' is not a book. It is malignancy itself. I wonder that it can remain stationary on the bookshelf. One would expect it to generate self-locomotion just as one sees a moldy, maggoty rock move because of ( Read more... )

Three uncontroverted facts bar recovery under any of her theories…First, plaintiff ended up in the trunk of the automobile because she felt “overburdened” and was attempting to commit suicide… Plaintiff admits when she purchased the LTD, she did not rely on the inability to get out in, or out of, the trunk for the purpose of a future aborted ( Read more... )

I have this one law school Prof. who is a real jerk. Today, he actually apologized for some of his behaviour (see below).
Basically, class went down like this.

Professor (P): What does Scalia say in his dissent?

Student 1 (S1): He says X, Y, and Z.

P: Good. But what else?

[Student 1 looks back into his book]

P: This is not time to be rereading the case ( Read more... )

Did I make a mistake? The biggest one of my life?

I've been skating a lot recently. It has made me realize (1) how much I miss doing it all the time, and (2) the extent to which my ability has eroded over the last few years.

Part of the reason for (2) is that I am now in law school, and it eats all my time. I am going to be a lawyer soon. The ( Read more... )