advice to law students
Scare you to death, Work you to death, Bore you to death
This maxim for the evolution of the law student’s confused meandering toward matriculation is so far all too true in my experience, by which I apologize for the relative lack of posting lately. Technology giveth where law review taketh away however - I’m composing this post on my Crackberry 8800 which I highly recommend.
More on the Billable Hour, Charting Your Own Course
I recent wrote about the billable hour here in The Death of the Billable Hour, Wishing Does Not Make it So. Susan Cartier Liebel left a comment with a link to her excellent post The Cockroach of the Legal Profession - The Billable Hour. The most surprising fact - one that many lawyers are not […]
A Course on the Legal Profession
“Indiana Law faculty recently voted to revise our 1L curriculum to make room for a new 4-credit Legal Professions course.”
Bill Henderson at the Empirical Legal Studies Blog: A 4-Credit 1L Course on the Legal Profession
This seems like a very, very good idea to me. Did any of us have even the inkling of a clue […]
Recommended Reading for before Starting Law School, The Legal Analyst, A Toolkit for Thinking about the Law
Before you start law school at Houston they give you a list of recommended books, most of which are at least marginally useful. I particularly recommend the Buffalo Creek Disaster and A Civil Action if you’re looking for the most interesting of the lot. I flipped through some of the other stuff such as Acing […]
How to Win Friends and Influence People in On Campus Interviews (OCI)
Each fall law school campuses blossom with a thousand hopeful dreams of spending the rest of their lives in a little cubicle high up on the skyline. This instructional video will help future lawyers “get their interview on.”
Are Law Students Getting What We Want or What We Need?
MoneyLaw’s Jeff Harrison, a law professor at the University of Florida who incidentally once taught at the University of Houston, caught my eye with a piece on Best Practices for Law Schools. Drawing on the relatively recent report Best Practices for Legal Education, Harrison made an interesting observation -
I could be wrong but I […]
Upcoming Event - Association of Women Attorneys present The Meaning of JUDGE, Finding Your Place on the Bench
I was just informed of an interesting event coming up at South Texas. See details below. Oh and did I mention, NO CHARGE FOR LAW STUDENTS. Hard to beat that. If you have an upcoming event that may be of interest to law students, e-mail me.
On Saturday, September 15, 2007, Association of Women Attorneys […]
How to Choose a Law School
Anastasia is slinging law school choosin’ advice on think like a woman. act like a man. - Tips on Choosing a Law School #1: Location and Tips on Choosing a Law School #2: School.
I concur. I’m amazed at how little people know when they make their decision or what they choose to focus on. Rankings, […]
Tales from the Summer Associate Crypt
Above the Law, one of the Blawgraphy’s favorite guilty pleasure, has been featuring summer associate horror stories. I couldn’t pass this one up - X-Summers: Crab Stabber AKA Senorita Foulmouth - if only for the local flavor.
“K&S Houston used to have this boondoggle of a recruiting trip to the Four Seasons resort in Punta Mita […]
Interns in Harris County Prosecutor’s Office Name That Tune to Help Dog Fighting Case
Houston Chronicle: Law interns use ingenuity in dog case
When Harris County Assistant District Attorney Belinda Smith needed to determine the date of a dogfighting video, she turned to interns to ensure that the incident happened within the two-year statute of limitations for a misdemeanor charge.
The 35-minute video shows fights between pit bull-type dogs. Interns studied […]