blar posted:

You just ensured that your last semester of law school will be spent studying one of the most excruciating areas of law. These cases get so boring that the judges writing the opinions sometimes break down into quoting bad movies or comparing ligers to tigons etc. Did you at least take it pass/fail?

New York Law Journal posted:

Advice for the Lawlorn

Q:

Dear Ann,

I am a rising 3L at one of the top 6 law schools in the country, and had few summer associate offers as compared to the rest of my classmates. The problem was that I bombed my first semester of law school and finished my 1L year with 3 Cs on my transcript. My grades improved a good bit after that. In my 2L year I got one A and all the rest Bs.

How marketable would you say I am if I decide to interview again after this summer? Do you think firms will overlook my 3 Cs in my first year? Or will these bad grades at the beginning haunt me forever?

CaptainScraps posted:

Jesus loving christ why are they still making me do this loving bullshit work without paying me for it?

I'm sick of introducing poo poo into evidence. It's dumb, I'll stipulate it beforehand and any real fight will be had in a motion in limine. I won't do it in real life for five to ten years. gently caress, I should have gone to business school.

Yeah, I know, whiny but 3L can blow me.

J Miracle posted:

No I blew my pass/fail on business enterprises cause I let people scare me about the exam and then I got an A anyway.

Linguica posted:

Lol, the managing editor of my journal apparently pass/failed Transnational Law, a class that everyone is required to take to graduate, and then booked it anyway (i.e. got the highest grade in the class).

Vander posted:

Hey Texas Law Goons, are you still alive?

CaptainScraps posted:

Yeah, we're fine. William Munny's on lockdown. I skipped class this morning so I'm rejoicing in a day off.

And 1Ls are still studying in lockdown, I poo poo you not.

Vander posted:

Did you have the Prof that was shot at?







... Did he deserve it?

hypocrite lecteur posted:

In a just world the verbose morons responsible for Penny Arcade would be dying of blood loss cold and alone in a ditch somewhere

so the response to your "whyyy" is that this is not a just world and both law school and penny arcade exist

time to drink

hypocrite lecteur posted:

In a just world the verbose morons responsible for Penny Arcade would be dying of blood loss cold and alone in a ditch somewhere

so the response to your "whyyy" is that this is not a just world and both law school and penny arcade exist

time to drink

entris posted:

boo hoo hoo I don't like an enormously popular and successful webcomic that has engendered one of the biggest gaming conventions in America as well as a successful charity program that provides toys for sick kids in children's hospitals all while its authors remain humble and self-deprecating about their "celebrity" boo hoo hoo

hypocrite lecteur posted:

In a just world the verbose morons responsible for Penny Arcade would be dying of blood loss cold and alone in a ditch somewhere

so the response to your "whyyy" is that this is not a just world and both law school and penny arcade exist

time to drink

entris posted:

its authors remain humble and self-deprecating about their "celebrity" boo hoo hoo

unbearable and unreadable wall of text posted:

Comic related to my cohort's birthday constitute a kind of sub-genre in the greater body of our "work," some are more generalized - like today's, for example - but there are one or two that hint at something like an overarching (underpinning?) mythology.
So, while we managed to escape PAX without an epidemic, the joy beams of that blessed event must have stripped us of our natural defenses because the entire office has been getting sick in overlapping shifts ever since. I took my turn over the weekend, having taken the Plague Baton from Gabriel, I was chasing a spinning coin through what seemed like an infinite, handcrafted maze, and when I finally managed to get the Goddamned thing, it was made of wood. Even in the grip of the vision, I shook my head. I already know that wealth for wealth's sake is an illusory loving enterprise! What a crock of poo poo. I flew away on my gryphon before my roiling mind could offer up any more of its dime-store "lessons."
Etrian Odyssey III couldn't have arrived at a better time; I wasn't able to get out of bed, but my thumbs were in top form. The third entry in a series with callbacks to the PC dungeon crawlers of yore, it marries incredible art (no, really) with a heap of interlocking systems and then tells you to gently caress yourself. Not everyone wants that - not everyone wants a game to continually reinforce their unworthiness. But this is all I want now, these mean as hell, spit-in-your-mouth grudgefucker games, and this is certainly that.
In the rounds of Civ V I've played (and enjoyed, to be sure) I've got a good "feeling" by turn ten how this poo poo is going to shake out. Real quick, just for the curious among you, it's going to shake out with me atop a mountain of of bones, crown wobbling dangerously to one side as I really go nuts on a femur. Maybe I should turn up the difficulty? Which one is the right one, which is the one where it starts to cheat? Etrian Odyssey III only has one difficulty, and that difficulty is motherfucker. There is a cat you might see five, maybe six minutes into the first level of the dungeon that will wipe out your entire party. TPK. Get past him, and there's another one waiting in a tree. Your time, your wealth, and your optimistic young adventurers bleeding optimistically on the forest floor.
You can write a paean to this game, give it the best part of yourself, but it will never love you. It will instruct you, and with a firm hand; that might be the best you can hope for. You might decide that braving the Yggdrasil Labyrinth is a fool's errand, and take your place as a functionary in your father's shipping concern, supplying adventurers braver than yourself. You'll mend nets. You never wonder what it might have been like, that other life. You never wonder, except when you do.

entris posted:

humble

hypocrite lecteur posted:

Trash Can Man posted:

I got in to law school!

Defleshed posted:

The trolling these days has been really low effort.

Trash Can Man posted:

No, really, I did.

Defleshed posted:

The trolling these days has been really low effort.

entris posted:

The ABA has new rules that require attendance?

J Miracle posted:

My school also claims that they do.

Trash Can Man posted:

No, really, I did.

CaptainScraps posted:

Yeah, we're fine. William Munny's on lockdown. I skipped class this morning so I'm rejoicing in a day off.

And 1Ls are still studying in lockdown, I poo poo you not.

Lilosh posted:

I have a question for Mookie, or anyone who actually has a lawyer job (So probably only him)

My 1L research professor is making a big thing about THE BOOOOOOKS and how bosses will want us to use THE BOOOOOOOKS for research instead of wasting time and money by using electronic sources, specifically Westlaw/Lexis. (granted, He's mentioned how ungodly expensive westlaw can be)

Do big firms care? Or is it mostly solos and small firms that would rather you pore over the digests and indexes and USCA and poo poo?

Upon your answer depends how much I pay attention to his emphatic jumping up and down about THE BOOOOOOOKS

Solomon Grundy posted:

And for you weenies bitching about attendance requirements, back when I went to law school my TTT had a three-absence-then-fail policy. So quit whining and get out of bed and go to class.