Posted in Careers, Law, School on April 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This could probably be a whole blog upon itself if i was cynical.
I actually think law school prepares students well- at least I perceive mine does.
However, many say that too much emphasis is put on black letter law, and not how things are done in reality. I say that is a problem with specific professors [...]
Posted in Computers, Law, School, Technology on April 2, 2008 | No Comments »
I wrote previously about my general thoughts on how to succeed at law school. Here are two simple quick tips:
Don’t buy the legal dictionary
Every attorney or law school graduate will tell you to buy a legal dictionary. Don’t. I fell into this trap. But the people who tell you to buy one of these went [...]
Posted in Careers, Money and the Economy, School on March 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
NY Times article discussing how many medical students are choosing fields like dermatology and plastic surgery because they will pay the most money after they graduate. The problem with that is the areas that will need a lot of good doctors, with our population aging and the baby boomers getting older will be stressed.
Seniors accepted [...]
Posted in Careers, School on February 28, 2008 | No Comments »
Looking back after a term and a half of law school, I have come up with a fool proof formula for law school success. Every law student I talk to agrees with me, for what that is worth. The secret?
Get amazing grades your first term.
How simple right? Great grades means you get on law review [...]
Posted in Law, School on February 4, 2008 | No Comments »
The American Bar Association is discussing more stringent rules to be an accredited law school.
In general, the change would create a quantitative rule requiring law schools to demonstrate that 75% of their graduates passed the bar exam or to show that their pass rates were within a certain range compared with other law schools in [...]
Posted in News, Politics and Government, School on January 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
W&L’s Mock Con got a bit of attention, being seen on politico.com’s Campus Section homepage. The article notes how the convention is greatly accurate based on past predictions.
These time-tested methods include more than two years of extensive grass-roots research conducted by 55 student state chairmen who make contacts with political experts, journalists, bloggers and party [...]
Posted in Politics and Government, School on January 25, 2008 | No Comments »
W&L has a Mock Convention every four years to nominate the candidate for the party out of office.
The Washington and Lee University Mock Convention is a quadrennial tradition in which student delegates attempt to predict the presidential nominee of the political party currently out the of the White House; this year, the [...]
Posted in Careers, Law, School on January 1, 2008 | No Comments »
Another article about how unfair the US News Rankings are. This article points out that Bar Passage rates only account for 2% of a school’s rank. What is the point of going to law school if you can’t practice because you fail to pass the bar?
The larger issue the author points out is that beyond [...]
Posted in Humor, Personal, School on December 4, 2007 | No Comments »
Today has been one of the worst days of my year so far. I can’t quite pin it on any one event, more the total events over the course of the day. Thus far:
Woke up at 6am with a serious pain in my neck. I cannot turn my head left past 45 degrees. So I [...]
Posted in Books, School, Society on November 23, 2007 | No Comments »
Study reported in the New York Times says that the reason reading and writing skills are down among both children and adults is that time spent pleasure reading is down in general.
Americans — particularly young Americans — appear to be reading less for fun, and as that happens, their reading test scores are declining. At [...]
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