I’ve been in arguments with some people about this because of Zachariah:

They say: A law school graduate is automatically a lawyer and becomes an attorney after passing the bar.

I say WRONG.

I say: Only if someone PASSES THE BAR are they both a lawyer and an attorney.
A law school graduate has zero status and is merely a “law school graduate.”

Caveat: in Wisconsin, if you graduate law school there AND practice there, you are waived the bar exam. This is called “diploma privilege.” All other states and DC require the bar. Full stop.

This is so simple. How can people be wrong about such an easy concept?

Am I right or wrong here?

scanned from my textbook while i'm doing my admin law reading, bc i'm too lazy to open westlaw rn

idk why i never expected to see this sentiment expressed so cleanly in a supreme court opinion. i wish i could hand this to conservatives who hate both welfare and crime. like "bro, they're connected. they've always been connected. welfare prevents crime. if you hate crime so much, you should be a huge fan of welfare."

mental health check

I have two days to prep! I have two days because my workload squished me (I wasn't the smartest to give myself so much to do this year).

Any procrastinators have tips and tricks for 2-day study success? Or inspiring stories lol.

The exam is mostly contracts. It'll have multiple-choice, then the typical "here's a hypo" and short-answer responses.

I'm in my junior year at the University of Baltimore right now and had been planning to apply to the early-entry program at their law school. This would allow me to save a year and also have a lower tuition rate for my first year of law school. I'm wondering whether it's even worth it for me to go here. I've heard mixed opinions from people in the law school. I've heard the curve is abysmal, and you'll basically never get into Big Law if you go there because of that. UMD Carey Law is the better option, but I'm wondering if it's worth it for me to spend the extra year (which would just be me completing my bachelor's degree fully) and then try to apply to UMD.

In my mind, the opportunity to get out of law school earlier seems more worth it, but I'm very curious to know if it actually is. I'm also not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I don't see a specific subreddit for either of those law schools, so here I am.

I’m trying to jump from the dumpster fire that is healthcare and look into a post-graduate career. I’ve been interested in law since I started college and wondered if there are any healthcare professionals who made the jump and have some insight?

For you future lawyers out there, interesting read.

Vetted whether the Press Sec passed the bar? And or lied about being a lawyer? Feel like this would take 1 hour. My impression was if you get hired to be a high level Fed employee, they will vet you extensively?

So basically, I only had one midterm which was torts, I didn’t think it was that bad, but I ended up with a 51%, and then my professor wrote down that my grade would have been a 1.5 WITH the curve.

I feel like I’m gonna lose my mind and I’m not sure what to do. My guess is that I’m one of the worst students in the class right now and that if I don’t change like Mr. Scrooge, I’m going to fail out of law school.

I’m looking for anyone interested in sharing a good cover letter or cover letter template that either landed you multiple job opportunities or was acknowledged for their better than average CL. thanks

Struck out for big law. Currently have nothing lined up for 2L summer.

At this point, if the goal is to lateral into big law someday, is a mid sized or regional firm better than a brand name state or federal agency or Article III judicial internship?

In some sense, I feel like a gov’t role could have more cachet than a lesser firm. But then it’s like… a firm would be direct private practice experience.

What do we think?

I just got the results for my Contracts Multiple choice midterm back, and I got 12/20! The worst part is that I felt really good about that exam and thats what worries me the most. I wanted to see if anyone here has had bad midterm grades but still got an A for a course? Im just stressed specially because I am trying to do big law and I know grades can be huge.

At my school (and I’m sure plenty of others) we have a set amount of required 1L tip and advice sections we are required to attend. They hold them throughout the week and they are meant to cover various things throughout law school that they think might be hard for some to grasp. They’re typically helpful in the sense they provide a class for some of the less talked about areas of law school like time management and IRAC writing, but holy hell do they make it seem difficult. Yesterday during the IRAC writing section, the lady leading it went on for a good 20-30 minutes about how important it is to manage our time and even went as far as saying we should do our best to not use the bathroom or get water bc “even taking 5 minutes make it so there’s 5 wasted minutes we will never get back”. She also made a number of mentions throughout to the fact that on her torts final the essay question took 2 hours to write and I could visibly see the fear this created in some peoples faces. Now obviously I am a 1L and don’t know THAT much. But I feel as though I know enough to see the obvious scare tactics being used. While yes law school has been different than any schooling I’ve ever done and definitely took some adjustment, I just don’t think it’s nearly as complicated as so many try to make it seem. It just bothers me that since week 1 it’s felt like half of the stress and scariness of it all has come directly from the staff of the school hyping things up way more then they seemingly need to be. Rant over

Just recently, a 1L from an out of state law school with absolutely no connections added me on LinkedIn. I looked at their "About me" profile which gave me a chuckle:

1L in law school focusing on 1. Civil procedure, 2. Contract law, 3. Lawyering skills, 4. Legal ethics, and 5. Legal research skill using LexisNexis and WestLaw.

So....you just listed your mandated 1L classes that everyone else in your year is taking and say you're "focusing" on those subjects? It's like those people who highlight everything in their casebooks.

Anyway, wanted to share and see what other funny/unhinged things they've seen on LinkedIn.

AHHHHHHHHHH

I am writing a conlaw paper about flock cameras. But I have to pretend previous case law predicts what a SCOTUS ruling would be. But realistically the Court will rule pretextually, probably in favor of allowing flock to be used in aggregate. Even though Carpenter and Chatrie both say that's dumb :(.

It's so funny having to research doctrine and pretend I'm doing legal scholarship when that's not at all predictive of how the Court will rule on anything

What are y’all’s favorite antitrust exam prep books? I’m looking for something with practice problems and answers or, if it’s an E&E, something relatively short.

Just got my first and only graded mid term back and got less than half correct. Feeling like trash because I felt so confident taking it, considering it was multiple choice only.

Don’t know class average or median as it wasn’t provided. Guess I don’t know the material as well as I thought 😕

Even did a bunch of practice MC questions and was getting them all correct.

Time to lock in.