At the end of summer I was invited to keep on at my internship during the Fall semester.  Apparently they were braver, or more desperate, than i thought.  Anyways since my summmer appointment technically terminated I had to go down to HR to get re processed for the fall term.  So after going through a substantial amount of paper work and taking ( Read more... )

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/science/earth/17tier.html?8dpc

I would pay good money to hear a “Mio magnifico Internet” aria.

Happy New Years everybody. Best wishes for the new year ( Read more... )

One more final and i am halfway to becoming a lawyer. Thats scary. I'm really looking forward to being home for a while and seeing family and friends. And looking for a summer job, because thats what law students do over Christmas break. I miss the college days where summers were actually about relaxing, now if you are not doing something legal ( Read more... )

So its looking like, by pure chance, I have a job this spring with the General Counsel's office for the Military Archdiocese. I was interviewing there as part of the second year law student's epic quest to find a summer job and they didn't have anything for the summer but wanted to know if I wanted a job for the spring semester. It looks like it ( Read more... )

I wanted to apologize for doing such a crappy job of keeping in touch with people this semester. I have this long list of people i need to call or email sitting on my desk but the only times I remember it are at 2 in the morning or when I'm running out the door. Being busy and stressed isn't a very good excuse so hopefully this is something I'm ( Read more... )

Im in the process of writing this truly horrific appellant brief on everyones favorite topic of material misrepresentations in security sales by a third party. Partway through my research i took a break to read the example they gave us. While reading it I note that although its a brief for the appellant there are points where it looks like they ( Read more... )

One of our supervising attorneys is mildly narcoleptic and we had been sitting in class for about 6 hours with another professor lecturing so she was kind of dozing off. We got to a point where the lecturing professor was asking some questions about the consequences of various actions and a student raised her hand and answered "you would be ( Read more... )

Yesterday i was assigned my first three clients. None of their problems seem hugely complex in terms of legal issues involved but i have never done anything like this before and now it actually counts. So my emotions have been running between abject terror and abject terror ( Read more... )