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I currently have a 3.88 GPA, just 0.01 below CLS and NYU's 75 percentile GPA, and UPenn's median. I am a senior graduating in August. Would it be worth it for me to take a number of online community college classes just to push my GPA to 3.89 to maximize my chances at these schools? Thanks! don't t...

Hi all, I'm consistently getting -1 on my LR sections and -2 on RC, and I just don't know how to get those last few points. I have the LSAT trainer, but I've found the LR and RC material in it to be way too easy and unhelpful for those few questions. I know this is a good problem to have but would ...

someone is hawking an ebook about how to write onto law review. why don't we crowdsource, compile some tips here? the best tip i got about the write on competition was to read the bluebook, front to back, applying each rule to the bluebooking exercise. i caught a ton of minor stuff this way (and it...

retake.

how did and how long you prepped the last go?

any competitions like the above link i posted where one could give it a shot even if not a law student? i really liked that it wasn't too long, only 4000-7500 words (not including footnotes).

i was looking at this https://www.georgetowntech.org/writingcompetition just to make the abstract idea of a publication more real to conjure, to have something to talk about with potential collaborators, and have something of a rough deadline, until i found that these are open only to law students.

wow, that means hunter biden must have done really well if his gulc grades made transfer even plausible (considering how tough yls transfer is). it doesn't seem he graduated YLS with any latin honors though, which is a bit surprising considering he must have had almost top grades after 1L.

*please don't quote yeah, IP issues can be very tricky but i don't plan to let work know about it or use ideas that are developed from work. i intend research to be related to generic ideas about machine learning (that are already in the public domain). related to cold emailing profs, i put together...

After a year at Georgetown, Hunter transferred to Yale Law, where he completed his degree, in 1996.

regarding biden's son, was it based on his law school performance or could it be influence?

*please don't quote i don't think i know anyone who can introduce me to prof. being in workforce of tech industry for a long time can be like a silo. i'm thinking of academia so want to get research exposure prior. i was considering using my work-email to cold-email profs so it's not ignored right a...

*please don't quote would profs generally be open to ~150 hr investment type of commitment over 4-5 months? regarding approaching profs for possible 'collaboration', i guess being clear about publication is good but hard to do without direction from the prof. from what i've gathered prof would most ...

so can practitioners or academics not affiliated with the university that owns the journal eligible to apply for publication and when they do have a case note they worked on do they send it to all journals to apply broadly or target a specific one? also, are there only 2-3 articles per hlr issue? it...

i guess if i put 8hrs per weekend then it could be ~150 hrs in 4 months. does the focus of a publication/research collaboration with a prof have to be narrower than like, an issue related to upcoming machine intelligence tech and how it may lead to social issues or legal pitfalls? it sounds very bro...

i was wondering what research in law actually involves in terms of steps involved in taking something from an early idea to a publication? e.g. is it mainly scouring the case law, precedents with some analysis of new issues identified? what journals one could target without being a law student? from...

* please don't quote As a sw engineer with a FT job, is it possible to do some independent research work/activity with a law professor with a focus on tech/law over a short duration (6-8 weeks period) without having any ties to the university/school? how could one cold-approach a professor for such ...

Are there research fellow type positions at law/tech interdisciplinary centers affiliated with T6 law schools that tech/STEM persons could get without admission to LS? E.g. Berkman klein center seems to admit a few fellow/affiliates who work FT at microsoft/amzn or such. But these are very few. I co...

Are there usually more than a few regular students (not just 1-2 naturals) who do very well at law school without putting in any serious effort and with just taking it easy? Like make magna that is best 10%.

Is that really a problem these days? Most of my friends during law school were older students in their mid-late 30s, and I was a K-JD. i don't see it as one (i hope it's not), but i don't discount that law schools like t6 may be full of gunners with people acting very competitive with each other. i...

400k should get enough prestige in real world, no?

*please don't quote I applied to a few posting online posted by recruiting firms, but didn't hear back. I basically submitted my SW engineering resume with initial few lines about objective being "able to work with lawyers in IP law and patent drafting". Other than taking patent bar, anything I coul...

i understand that everyone's situation is different and one can't generalize, but shouldn't op be able to find some kind of solace by talking with other classmates who may have declined H for his school? one of the factors is that op thinks he is older. unless op is late 30s or more he should be abl...

is there any preftige or difficulty difference between doing patent prosec vs patent lit?

^ which school did you go to? how much preftige factor in career say hys vs ccn? DPNCB. CCN don't add any real value compared to the rest of the t14. I'd take a full ride at a t14 over HYS. The slightly more risky OCI process at t14 v. HYS is way outweighed by the risk you fucking hate being a lawy...

i saw one score convertor once that could give you equivalent lsat from gre v/q scores. but i think such conversion doesnt really make sense.

I feel like everyone is minimizing the difference between HYS and CCN. Because the difference IS minimal. Dude, you're like a guy who's whining that he would have gotten laid if only he had an Audi A5 instead of an A4. Yeah, the A5 is slightly nicer but maybe the car is not the reason you're not ge...