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― Danzig and Jeanne-Claude (deangulberry), Saturday, 8 January 2005 21:44 (nineteen years ago) link

i don't know what to do with my life. is this it?

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Saturday, 8 January 2005 21:50 (nineteen years ago) link

do you like money?

― Danzig and Jeanne-Claude (deangulberry), Saturday, 8 January 2005 21:51 (nineteen years ago) link

hi dere

― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 8 January 2005 21:54 (nineteen years ago) link

hi dere
i am in der law office

― Danzig and Jeanne-Claude (deangulberry), Saturday, 8 January 2005 21:56 (nineteen years ago) link

xpost no i hate money!

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Saturday, 8 January 2005 21:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Danzig and Jeanne-Claude (power.strik...), January 8th, 2005 are you the anonymous lawyer? I enjoy your writings!

― anonymous poster, Saturday, 8 January 2005 22:05 (nineteen years ago) link

the anonymous lawyer is in fact a law student.

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 8 January 2005 22:07 (nineteen years ago) link

I AM IN DER LAW FIRME RITE NOW!

I just ate a burrito in a major law firm!

Next to documents!

― Danzig and Jeanne-Claude (deangulberry), Saturday, 8 January 2005 22:07 (nineteen years ago) link

PLEASE DO NOT DROP BEAN ON DER DOCUMENTARIOS

― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 8 January 2005 22:11 (nineteen years ago) link

I managed to be safe, but I do plan on spilling my latte on my keyboard later.

― Danzig and Jeanne-Claude (deangulberry), Saturday, 8 January 2005 22:13 (nineteen years ago) link

I should talk to Cozen about this.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Saturday, 8 January 2005 22:26 (nineteen years ago) link

I work for a judge. Power!

― ai lien (kold_krush), Sunday, 9 January 2005 00:19 (nineteen years ago) link

I managed to be safe, but I do plan on spilling my latte on my keyboard later.

Ok, I lied. I actually ended up spilling Pellegrino on my printer. Good times.

― American Apparel and Jeanne-Claude (deangulberry), Sunday, 9 January 2005 01:50 (nineteen years ago) link

there is a philadelphia BIGLAW firm known as COZEN. so the fact that ILX's own COZEN wants to be a lawyer has always kinda amused me.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 9 January 2005 04:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Dean, do the other lawyers find you funny?

― .adam (nordicskilla), Sunday, 9 January 2005 20:29 (nineteen years ago) link

I thought about going to law school earlier on this thread, but really, fuck that!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Sunday, 9 January 2005 20:29 (nineteen years ago) link

pussy.

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 9 January 2005 20:46 (nineteen years ago) link

sue me!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Sunday, 9 January 2005 21:09 (nineteen years ago) link

five months pass...

for how long does one need to study before taking the LSAT? on average?

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Sunday, 12 June 2005 17:29 (eighteen years ago) link

BUMP where is lawyers? i want to talk about lawyering.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Sunday, 12 June 2005 21:08 (eighteen years ago) link

I actually ended up spilling Pellegrino on my printer.

This was bad news.

― something about a tarantula coming out of a coconut (deangulberry), Sunday, 12 June 2005 21:14 (eighteen years ago) link

oh dean.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Sunday, 12 June 2005 21:17 (eighteen years ago) link

It's wacky, I tell you. Go to law school for the Pellegrino.

― something about a tarantula coming out of a coconut (deangulberry), Sunday, 12 June 2005 21:19 (eighteen years ago) link

I might be lawyers, next year.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 12 June 2005 21:25 (eighteen years ago) link

i hardly studied for the lsat. so.. not long. but if you have a good undergraduate GPA and want to go to a top law school, i recommend taking some sort of course.

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 12 June 2005 21:32 (eighteen years ago) link

I hate how you have to choose a country and stick to it, with this, though.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 12 June 2005 21:37 (eighteen years ago) link

what is a "good undergraduate GPA"? i don't think i have the dollars to go to Top Law School. also, what if i want to go to law school in canada? can i do that?

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Sunday, 12 June 2005 21:41 (eighteen years ago) link

no.

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 12 June 2005 22:43 (eighteen years ago) link

i had an OK undergrad GPA (3.1), but a decent LSAT (164). the only l-school that i wanted to go to that i didn't get into was NYU -- which didn't surprise me. the "best" l-school that i got into w/ my numbers was Fordham.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 12 June 2005 22:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Can one do okay at a decent law school on a sixty-hour workweek? Sixty-five?

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 12 June 2005 23:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Can one do okay at a decent law school on a sixty-hour workweek? Sixty-five?

no.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 12 June 2005 23:20 (eighteen years ago) link

ok my gpa is like a 3.54. i want to work in a think tank.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Sunday, 12 June 2005 23:35 (eighteen years ago) link

if you kick ass on the LSATs (basically, get a 170 or better), then i think that you have at least a 50/50 chance of getting into a top law school. maybe not harvard or yale, but possibly somewhere like penn or georgetown.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 13 June 2005 00:11 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm in second year law school. my midyear exams (i have four this semester) start tomorrow. all i can say to you right now is RUN WHILE YOU STILL CAN.

― gem (trisk), Monday, 13 June 2005 00:22 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.stormscape.com/inspiration/lawfirmlist.php

― something about a tarantula coming out of a coconut (deangulberry), Monday, 13 June 2005 00:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Gem I feel you, law exams suck.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 13 June 2005 01:07 (eighteen years ago) link

your list seems to be missing finkelstein and partners, 1-800-LAW-AMPM, your law firm working for you

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Monday, 13 June 2005 01:07 (eighteen years ago) link

now that he is out of law school, my husband recommends it for everyone. Maybe he is just mean though.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 13 June 2005 01:31 (eighteen years ago) link

yer husband is the total opposite of me, then, teeny -- i would recommend law school for NO-ONE. except people that i hate.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 13 June 2005 02:11 (eighteen years ago) link

oh come on, law school is fun!

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 13 June 2005 02:23 (eighteen years ago) link

let's learn stuff that has NOTHING to do with being able to practice law!

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 13 June 2005 02:23 (eighteen years ago) link

"now that he is out of law school, my husband recommends it for everyone. Maybe he is just mean though."

This is like when you run a marathon, and the rush of endorphins that come from the pain having stopped make you feel so good that you erroneously assume it was the running itself that produced this feeling, and suddenly you think, "you know, long distance running is rather good isn't it?" Conveniently forgetting that your thoughts two minutes prior were "fuck shit fuck shit fuck shit fuck shit fuck shit..."

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 13 June 2005 02:39 (eighteen years ago) link

I seem to have missed this, so are you interested in becoming a lawyer, Tim? I get this image of you arguing cases via a combination of grime white labels and references to Baudrillard.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 13 June 2005 02:41 (eighteen years ago) link

i will teach you TEH LAW

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 13 June 2005 02:45 (eighteen years ago) link

whatever i said before, probably. big investment. not necessarily (but could be) a good general degree as a matter of substance, but is probably more so as a matter of process. will probably require actually being a lawyer for a few years, if you don't want to be really poor. you should investigate that first. you may find that people in law school suck. you may not. requires a lot of hard work if you want to do respectably. being smart helps a bit, but only a bit. a math background might serve you well in the analytic work, which is a big part of it, but consider that a lot of lawyering work requires good reading, writing, speaking and people skills. it can lead to a rewarding career in which you face a constant stream of problem-solving and semi-intellectual puzzles and competition with language, but all of these things might not be enough if you don't like the actual substance/people/milieu.

have you considered an MPA degree? their utility is more debatable, but they might be more on point for thinktank work. in that world, it helps to specialize narrowly, i would imagine.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 13 June 2005 02:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Can one do okay at a decent law school on a sixty-hour workweek? Sixty-five?
-- Gravel Puzzleworth (mostlyconnec...), June 13th, 2005.

Are you asking if you can work 60-65 hours a week AND go to law school? Then no, definitelty. Are you asking if 60-65 hours is enough time to put in AT law school per week, I would say it's more than enough. I went to a decent law school, an I would say I averaged about 40 hours a week. You learn to be more efficient as you go. The first year you spend more time, and of course there are times during the semester when you really have to ramp up, but generally, I found that 40-50 hours was plenty. But this was an American law school. ( I also knew people that did night school and worked 50 hours a week and seemed OK, but I wouldn't choose to do that).

My advice to anyone thinking about going to law school: If you are going because you want to be a lawyer, then definitely do it. If you are just going because you are a smart person, and you want a good career, don't go. For people that don't have a strong desire to actually BE a lawyer, I've found that law school, and, even more so, practicing law, are a miserable experience.

― Scott CE (Scott CE), Monday, 13 June 2005 03:01 (eighteen years ago) link

i reckon i probably spend a good 45-50 hours a week combined classtime/study time. plus i work about 25 hours a week at the moment. i'm pretty much tired all the time and have not much social life. i get quite good marks though and i've made awesome friends here, also i kinda feel like i fit in for the very first time in my entire life (this feels weird but in a good way). my point? ummmm only do it if you really really want to be a lawyer (i do) and are able to make a really good commitment to it. otherwise it will suck balls in the worst kind of way.

― gem (trisk), Monday, 13 June 2005 08:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Ha ha law is nothing like that in Australia. I don't really study except in the month before exams. But law exams are still teh suck - or, wait, maybe it's me!

"I seem to have missed this, so are you interested in becoming a lawyer, Tim? I get this image of you arguing cases via a combination of grime white labels and references to Baudrillard. "

Yeah I haven't really decided yet. Since the beginning of the year I've been working about two and a half days a week in a a managerial paralagal position at a large plaintiff law firm, and this partial step towards, like, a real job has made me more relaxed about doing further postgrad study (in humanities) and just seeing what happens.

I'm not adverse to law, but it's hard to see myself doing it all the time I guess.

It scared me to realise recently that I was in my sixth year of uni - which I went to straight from school. I've been studying forever!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 13 June 2005 13:07 (eighteen years ago) link

Administrative Law exam on Thursday morning - wish me good luck!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 13 June 2005 13:10 (eighteen years ago) link

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