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Just move on to personal injury after the fellowship ends. You get to keep saying "PI" that way.
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NewtGoongrich posted:I got my marks back yesterday and I did fairly well. I managed to score well above the curve in business associations, despite never going and studying the night before. On the other hand, I got a C in civil procedure, despite going to every class and studying my rear end off. You know you go to school in Canada when getting a C still qualifies for "fairly well" overall. C's get degrees!
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Penguins Like Pies posted:You know you go to school in Canada when getting a C still qualifies for "fairly well" overall. Good effort, eh?
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Direwolf posted:Assuming this goes through, anyone in the thread have a school-specific fellowship? If so, were you able to convert it into a job-job after, or were you dumped back in the misery pool? I'm still a student but I know of quite a few people who got a school-specific fellowship at NYU. Typically they were able to follow one of three pathways. (Disclaimer: Mostly in direct civil legal services) 1. Get an Article III Clerkship/State Supreme Court Clerkship for the subsequent year. Use the clerkship + the fellowship as leverage to secure a full time position after the clerkship. 2. Stay on as a full time staff attorney at the organization they did a fellowship with. (They picked their organizations wisely in terms of funding though) 3. Get a full time position as a staff attorney or an organization fellowship at another organization. My understanding is that it's almost impossible to get an entry level PI job, but that an attorney with a fellowship/real panda experience have a much easier time of finding a subsequent full time position.
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May 5, 2013 22:24
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NewtGoongrich posted:I got my marks back yesterday and I did fairly well. I managed to score well above the curve in business associations, despite never going and studying the night before. On the other hand, I got a C in civil procedure, despite going to every class and studying my rear end off. Hey if that doesn't work out you could always come to Saskatchewan, where a buddy of mind got a summer position by phoning up some lawyer who worked solo, asked if he was going to hire summer students that year, lawyer said yeah probably, they later met for lunch and he got the job then and there.There are some real lawyer shortages in a lot of places here. The downside being you have to live in Saskatchewan. I miss Toronto sometimes  .
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Monaghan posted:Hey if that doesn't work out you could always come to Saskatchewan, where a buddy of mind got a summer position by phoning up some lawyer who worked solo, asked if he was going to hire summer students that year, lawyer said yeah probably, they later met for lunch and he got the job then and there.There are some real lawyer shortages in a lot of places here. One of the dangers of articling with a solo or really small practice is that they may not have the ability to keep you on after articling for very long or at all. The main stress right now amongst my friends is whether or not they'll be hired back. Some may argue getting a first year position is harder than an articling position. Also, a guy that graduated a year before me in law school just started articling. I thought he had switched to crim but nope, student-at-law. I find it somewhat awkward (because I know he's starting now because he couldn't find anything for so long, not because of any other reason, and we graduated high school together).
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Baruch Obamawitz posted:Nope. If there's a non-publication request, nothing in the file wrapper is available on Public PAIR until either the request is dropped (they decide they want to file overseas?) or the patent issues. Aw boo. Well, maybe he'll file the non-publication request in all his cases from here on out so that he can rant in peace and never be bothered by the Internet again.
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My motto of the day is definitely C's get degrees Ugh 
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burf posted:My motto of the day is definitely C's get degrees Ds get jobs. Just not the Ds that anyone in this thread has.
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May 7, 2013 01:39
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HiddenReplaced posted:Ds get jobs. Just not the Ds that anyone in this thread has. Ds nutz
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If I had some nuts on my chin, would those be chin-nuts?
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Phil Moscowitz posted:If I had some nuts on my chin, would those be chin-nuts? You goose you'd have a dick in your mouth! 
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Phil Moscowitz posted:If I had some nuts on my chin, would those be chin-nuts? lets find out baby
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I just read an article about how that fertilizer plant in Texas that exploded recently, killing 15 people and destroying 100 homes, had only $1 million in insurance...no excess. I was like "how can a freaking industrial plant be allowed to operate with only $1 million in instance?!" And then I remembered...Texas.
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Phil Moscowitz posted:I just read an article about how that fertilizer plant in Texas that exploded recently, killing 15 people and destroying 100 homes, had only $1 million in insurance...no excess. Wow, that sounds really business-friendly. Thanks, Texas, for the robust business climate!
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May 7, 2013 12:21
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Hey, at least those dead and homeless people had jobs (before their jobs/homes blew up)
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If you took the April MPRE, scores are up. Barely studied but I did well enough for Illinois. 
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Phil Moscowitz posted:I just read an article about how that fertilizer plant in Texas that exploded recently, killing 15 people and destroying 100 homes, had only $1 million in insurance...no excess. Anytime you want to find an example of bad laws having bad consequences it's nice to be able to instantly narrow your search.
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meiram posted:If you took the April MPRE, scores are up. Barely studied but I did well enough for Illinois. Man, I was getting quasi-anxiety attacks when I didn't get an email notice and could not find the "file cabinet" or whatever the database is. I ended up passing in every jurisdiction (albeit, I overstudied the hell out of Kaplan's program because standardized multiple choice tests and I never really got along; in hindsight, I would have spent much more time with the BarBri stuff), but I'm still getting the shakes like I'm Tom Hank's character in loving Saving Private Ryan.
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MechaX posted:Man, I was getting quasi-anxiety attacks when I didn't get an email notice and could not find the "file cabinet" or whatever the database is. I ended up passing in every jurisdiction (albeit, I overstudied the hell out of Kaplan's program because standardized multiple choice tests and I never really got along; in hindsight, I would have spent much more time with the BarBri stuff), but I'm still getting the shakes like I'm Tom Hank's character in loving Saving Private Ryan. Haha, yea, much like the MPRE itself I found out the scores were up from facebook.
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Oh man you can stall out foreclosures for a ridiculously long time. What a dumb system. At least the hearings are fast.
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In cook County you can make it take 5 years while losing every motion and having the plaintiff move as fast as possible. It's why defense attorneys bill by the month.
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mastershakeman posted:In cook County you can make it take 5 years while losing every motion and having the plaintiff move as fast as possible. It's why defense attorneys bill by the month. Yup! And it's also why the plaintiff will eventually capitulate and settle on something with the defendant. Most of the motions are fairly easy and brainless on the part of the defendant's attorney, too. It's actually quite incredible how long they can stall something with minimal effort on their part. And God forbid if the plaintiff make a single mistake. I do not envy being a plaintiff trying to collect.
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ZenVulgarity posted:I do not envy being a plaintiff trying to collect. Well lets be fair here. It's not as if the Plaintiff's were doing everything by the book pre-08. Even post 08 with robo-signing, etc.
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Roger_Mudd posted:Well lets be fair here. It's not as if the Plaintiff's were doing everything by the book pre-08. Even post 08 with robo-signing, etc. Very true. They definitely still don't. But being fair isn't part of this!
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ZenVulgarity posted:Yup! And it's also why the plaintiff will eventually capitulate and settle on something with the defendant. Haha no, the more defendants stall the more likely a personal deficiency is sought in order to force the defendant to declare bankruptcy.
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mastershakeman posted:Haha no, the more defendants stall the more likely a personal deficiency is sought in order to force the defendant to declare bankruptcy.
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mastershakeman posted:Haha no, the more defendants stall the more likely a personal deficiency is sought in order to force the defendant to declare bankruptcy. We do foreclosure defense down in central FL and yeah, never seen this. We can easily stall foreclosures out for years because the banks gently caress things up so hard. If the CIA ever needs help eliminating records they should hire some bankers.
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Foreclosure law is judge by judge, let alone county or state dependent.
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mastershakeman posted:Foreclosure law is judge by judge, let alone county or state dependent. This is true. Fortunately for us when we drag things out the judges here get pissed at the banks for not doing it right.
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Soylent Pudding posted:We do foreclosure defense down in central FL and yeah, never seen this. We can easily stall foreclosures out for years because the banks gently caress things up so hard. If the CIA ever needs help eliminating records they should hire some bankers. Really? Where in central Florida? I was a SA for a firm in central Florida; we should grab a beer or something sometime this summer.I hope you don't work for KEL haha.
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Some foreclosure defendants admitted in open court today that the reason their SSNs on their paystubs wasn't verifying correctly was because they'd made the SSNs up when applying to work. There were several seconds of complete silence from the judge and the attorneys at that revelation.
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Omerta posted:Really? Where in central Florida? I was a SA for a firm in central Florida; we should grab a beer or something sometime this summer.I hope you don't work for KEL haha. You don't have PM so shoot me an E-mail at [<<myusername]@gmail.com
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mastershakeman posted:Some foreclosure defendants admitted in open court today that the reason their SSNs on their paystubs wasn't verifying correctly was because they'd made the SSNs up when applying to work. There were several seconds of complete silence from the judge and the attorneys at that revelation. ...just because they couldn't remember theirs, or because they're undocumented?
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evilweasel posted:...just because they couldn't remember theirs, or because they're undocumented? They're freemen on the land.
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Found this through an Ok Go link: http://youtu.be/xA4QWwaweWA?t=4m20s
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evilweasel posted:...just because they couldn't remember theirs, or because they're undocumented? Undocumented.
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I have jury duty tomorrow. I fully expet to be the only person who wants to be picked who is there.
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nm posted:I have jury duty tomorrow. I fully expet to be the only person who wants to be picked who is there.  Attorneys are statutorily ineligible in my state.
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joat mon posted:
That's some bullshit, but no one is putting a PD on a criminal jury and there aren't many civil jury cases here.
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