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nm posted:Most mormon crim attorneys I know break the second and many break the first (also, coffee). The history of Mormonism stretches all the way back into Biblical times: 1823.
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MoFauxHawk posted:Also there are people who, when they don't get into their schools of choice, choose not to go to law school. So 12,000 fewer applicants doesn't mean 12,000 fewer people starting law school. My figures are based on enrollment (red line on first chart) not apps. Re: the T4 schools, won't fewer applicants mean T2 will need to lower their standards thus depriving T4 of their applicants? Seems to me everyone below T14 will shift up. I know Texas A&M just bought Texas Weslyian. My guess is TW saw the writing. Roger_Mudd fucked around with this message at 00:19 on Jan 29, 2013 |
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Roger_Mudd posted:My figures are based on enrollment (red line on first chart) not apps. Or TW saw that Detroit College of Law jumped up massively in the standings when they were picked up by Michigan State.
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nm posted:Most mormon crim attorneys I know break the second and many break the first (also, coffee). Utah has a thriving escort/sugar daddy business as well.
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Roger_Mudd posted:My figures are based on enrollment (red line on first chart) not apps. It might not necessarily help people get into the T14 either - some are cutting their enrollment. Huxian fucked around with this message at 14:52 on Jan 29, 2013 |
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Paramour posted:It might not necessarily help people get into the T14 either - most of the schools are cutting their enrollment. But now I remember that law school is bullshit and thank my luck that I'm almost done.
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At the moment, I have a Russian specialist's degree (a 5-year graduate degree) in civil law and a LLM in intellectual property law, plus about 5 years of experience working on patents for the local office of an international law firm. If I wish to move to England and eventually become a solicitor there, what would be the best way to do that, in regards to courses/conversions/qualifications?
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Stop posted:Is that really the case? I haven't heard anything about NYU cutting its enrollment numbers and I am kinda skeptical that T-14 schools would intentionally make less money by admitting less students. I know Columbia cut their class by about 100 and Northwestern is either planning to cut their enrollment or has done so already. I should've said some instead of most, my bad. Huxian fucked around with this message at 14:56 on Jan 29, 2013 |
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Zarkov Cortez posted:http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/01/how-newegg-crushed-the-shopping-cart-patent-and-saved-online-retail/ Patent examining would be a lot better if we could depose third parties! e: Especially in internet bullshit, where examiners have no idea how things actually worked on the backend if there isn't an associated patent filing. Google's probably the best insofar as it somewhat documents how its stuff works in blog postings and the like, but the serious backend database people (Oracle, HP, Microsoft, etc.) have a bunch of opaque documentation on their software that rarely says how it actually works, meaning that trying to apply commercially-available-software-as-prior-art is usually pretty drat hard. I know I've had to track down old versions of Adobe Reader where I could authenticate the date of the version in some way (usually through wikipedia) in order to present a prima facie case that the prior art taught a particular interface functionality, for instance, because nobody documented poo poo anywhere. WhiskeyJuvenile fucked around with this message at 15:08 on Jan 29, 2013 |
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Baruch Obamawitz posted:Patent examining would be a lot better if we could depose third parties! And most examiners don't even seem to make that much effort - I do a lot of litigation in the 3G standards-essential patent arena and the number of times I've said "well, the pre-existing standard anticipates their patent" shocks me. For a lot of examiners, it seems like if it isn't in WEST or EAST they don't even try to locate it. (I know you guys have limited time per action, but god, my current case is just frustratingly bad examiner after frustratingly bad examiner.)
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Stop posted:Oh wow, that's pretty huge. It's still a little bizarre that schools like Columbia would cut a full quarter of their class. Columbia applications are probably down a fair amount, but its not like dropping the LSAT average of their accepted students by 2 or 3 points would hurt their US News rankings any. Student to faculty ratios play a big part in rankings, too, though, and I think "class size" does as well but I'm not sure.
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And the difference in LSAT medians is actually pretty minuscule. Yale's was something like a 173, while Georgetown's was a 169. If I remember correctly, LSAT/GPA also end up being roughly 25% of the USNWR rankings. (So it might be better for Columbia to cut enrollment in order to keep their medians up.)
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Stop posted:Oh wow, that's pretty huge. It's still a little bizarre that schools like Columbia would cut a full quarter of their class. Columbia applications are probably down a fair amount, but its not like dropping the LSAT average of their accepted students by 2 or 3 points would hurt their US News rankings any. Yes, it would. They're #4. If they drop below Chicago or NYU, their dean and admissions dean get in trouble.
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Ephemeron posted:At the moment, I have a Russian specialist's degree (a 5-year graduate degree) in civil law and a LLM in intellectual property law, plus about 5 years of experience working on patents for the local office of an international law firm. If I wish to move to England and eventually become a solicitor there, what would be the best way to do that, in regards to courses/conversions/qualifications? AFAIK, you want this page, make sure you can get a Certificate of Eligibility, and then, assuming your jurisdiction's on there, take this test.
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Finally, something I care about : https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/pe...-based/c5c6fqL5
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10-8 posted:But what if IP conflicts with my animal rights law course? I've said it before and I'll say it again: animal law owns f u. It might not be useful for everybody in their jerbs but it basically gave me a huge leg up on certain types of con law issues like vagueness, overbreadth, procedural due process, etc (no etc its actually just those three) which has helped, on occasion. Plus, you know, puppies. Also also there tend to be a lot of girls in the Student Animal Legal Defense Fund, so there's that
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I took a fluffy 3L course on the history of law, and the grade was an independent research thesis instead of an exam. My thesis was entitled: "DOG LAW: THE LAW OF DOGS". I got an A. It was illustrated. I didn't get hired anyplace.
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woozle wuzzle posted:I took a fluffy 3L course on the history of law, and the grade was an independent research thesis instead of an exam. My thesis was entitled: "DOG LAW: THE LAW OF DOGS". I got an A. It was illustrated. I didn't get hired anyplace. I took a military justice class 2L year. I wrote a paper about bringing PMCs under the authority of the UCMJ and titled it, "Leashing the Dogs of War." Into the paper, I slipped in the titles of 25 different video games and directly cited to Metal Gear Solid. I got a B+.
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HiddenReplaced posted:I took a military justice class 2L year. I wrote a paper about bringing PMCs under the authority of the UCMJ and titled it, "Leashing the Dogs of War." HR already knows this but I took the same class, wrote about BIG SPACE COMBAT LAW, cited to wikipedia, talked about sweet sweet coilguns, and included a number of puns. A- and got it published as a student note. EDIT: to be fair, HR's was cooler and I didn't have any video game references.
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Paramour posted:I know Columbia cut their class by about 100 and Northwestern is either planning to cut their enrollment or has done so already. I should've said some instead of most, my bad. This is incorrect. CLS cut the incoming class size by about 40 people. I think the target for this cycle is 360-ish again. It'll be interesting to see if they just increase the transfer class size by 40. It wouldn't surprise me.
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The closest I come to animal law is ADA violations, which I always love to see come in the door. There are a bunch of scumbag small business owners (redundant, I know) who give people with service animals grief, or try to charge them "pet fees," which means I get to send out an easy yet oh-so-satisfying "gently caress you, pay me" letter threatening to call the DOJ if they don't. Fines of up to $55,000 for a first offense, and private actions allow for fees under statute. The ADA owns.
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woozle wuzzle posted:I took a fluffy 3L course on the history of law, and the grade was an independent research thesis instead of an exam. My thesis was entitled: "DOG LAW: THE LAW OF DOGS". I got an A. It was illustrated. I didn't get hired anyplace. Our jurisprudence final was on one of the ruba'i of Omar Khayyam. I contrasted it with DEVO's Smart Patrol/ Mr. DNA. I got an A.
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Bushido Brown posted:It'll be interesting to see if they just increase the transfer class size by 40. It wouldn't surprise me. This is a trick that undergrad schools do sometimes. Another is binding early admissions programs and waitlists, since both have nearly 100% yield (and yield is a factor in most ranking systems).
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Petey posted:This is a trick that undergrad schools do sometimes. Another is binding early admissions programs and waitlists, since both have nearly 100% yield (and yield is a factor in most ranking systems). That'll at least make the TTT sticker a tiny bit more worth it. Until firms catch on and start auto-dinging transfers, that is.
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I was amused by this bit of candidness from the D.C. Circuit:quote:Although the judges of this circuit would uniformly prefer to continue hiring law clerks pursuant to the Federal Law Clerk Hiring Plan, it has become apparent that the plan is no longer working. Because participation in the plan is voluntary, a significant percentage of all United States circuit judges must agree to follow it if it is to work appropriately. During the past few years, a significant and increasing number of circuit judges around the country have hired in advance of the plan’s interview and offer dates, and it is likely that they will continue to do so. As a result, continued adherence to the plan is no longer fair and equitable to either students or judges. On the topic of clerkships, I understand the Supreme Court of Palau is recruiting for three 2013-14 positions, deadline March 1. Email me (albiewangsta at gmail) if you want a copy of the announcement.
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Bro Enlai posted:On the topic of clerkships, I understand the Supreme Court of Palau is recruiting for three 2013-14 positions, deadline March 1. Email me (albiewangsta at gmail) if you want a copy of the announcement. Successful candidates will be required to put up me and SAM for several weekend trips, as well as determine which restaurants are currently supplied with coconut crab for the duration of said trips. Applicants will be judged on their ability to pronounce Ngiraklsong correctly.
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Bushido Brown posted:This is incorrect. CLS cut the incoming class size by about 40 people. I think the target for this cycle is 360-ish again. Yeah, I'm an idiot, not really sure why I remembered "100". Didn't the admissions office say that they overenrolled?
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I was at a Coumbia Student Senate meeting tonight, and apparently when our Senate President asked the Dean why tuition keeps outpacing inflation, all the Dean could come up with was: "we still think law school is a good investment."
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TenementFunster posted:There are a bunch of scumbag small business owners (redundant, I know) What? People calling ibankers the devil I get, but now you're demonizing small business owners? What the gently caress is wrong with you? I've never particularly enjoyed responding to demand letters from people repping plaintiffs with service animals, but I might take a little more pleasure in it next time after reading your post.
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HiddenReplaced posted:What? People calling ibankers the devil I get, but now you're demonizing small business owners? What the gently caress is wrong with you? We cool and all bro but tell them to just let the dog in, it ain't worth it
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There are people who have a problem with service dogs? I've only heard of people doubting them because the owner wasn't blind. Also, service dogs rule. I met a woman a few weeks ago whose service dog was trained to detect when her blood sugar was low by smell or something and would also physically stop her from getting behind the wheel if he felt a seizure was coming or her blood sugar was too low. I had no idea dogs could do that. Wasn't there a goon lawyer with several cats in his office thanks to a couple people there getting a therapist to declare they would benefit from a service cat?
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If anyone's interested in working child support, I'll probably have an opening here at the end of Feb. Need to have passed a bar in the states somewhere. PM for details.
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HiddenReplaced posted:What? People calling ibankers the devil I get, but now you're demonizing small business owners? What the gently caress is wrong with you? He makes money by threatening small business owners that he will bankrupt them if they don't comply with one of the more byzantine federal laws, so I imagine if he doesn't demonize them it makes him feel bad (for being a bad person) (for $).
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Nero posted:He makes money by threatening small business owners that he will bankrupt them if they don't comply with one of the more byzantine federal laws, so I imagine if he doesn't demonize them it makes him feel bad (for being a bad person) (for $). gently caress byzantines and disabled people
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