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What electronic submission method? Submitting it through FedLoan's website I haven't noticed an electronic submission method. But them receiving the employment certification hasn't been my problem, it's that they're only counting each of my payments as "qualifying" on one of 8 loans. (And all of my...

What electronic submission method? Submitting it through FedLoan's website I haven't noticed an electronic submission method. But them receiving the employment certification hasn't been my problem, it's that they're only counting each of my payments as "qualifying" on one of 8 loans. (And all of my...

What electronic submission method?

Your theory on a 2nd payment doesn't apply because plenty of months I made one payment of more than my minimum. I divided it as the minimum due on every loan plus the rest on the highest-interest loan. And 6 of my 8 loans show zero qualifying payments.

I'm a 2015 grad who did government back in Oregon both summers and ended up as a county prosecutor in rural Oregon (about to move to somewhat-less-rural dream county Oregon). I thought both my own career counselor (Dave Diamond) and the PI counselor were pretty helpful. It didn't feel like Dave cou...

I'm a 2015 grad who did government back in Oregon both summers and ended up as a county prosecutor in rural Oregon (about to move to somewhat-less-rural dream county Oregon). I thought both my own career counselor (Dave Diamond) and the PI counselor were pretty helpful. It didn't feel like Dave cou...

I'm a 2015 grad who did government back in Oregon both summers and ended up as a county prosecutor in rural Oregon (about to move to somewhat-less-rural dream county Oregon). I thought both my own career counselor (Dave Diamond) and the PI counselor were pretty helpful. It didn't feel like Dave coun...

OP, do you even want to be a lawyer?

Also, government work is some of the most interesting work with a better chance at reasonable hours. It's not "lazy" and some of it is actually really hard to get.

I played club hockey all three years in law school, which involved traveling to Evanston from downtown Chicago twice a week. Your schedule gets more full towards exams but during the regular part of term you have a fair amount of flexible time. Especially if you're willing to give up some of the soc...

But wait! There's more! Back in April, FedLoan offered me a 0.1% reduction in interest rate on all loans for setting up autopay. It worked fine. Each month I got an email saying that my payment would process in 5 days or whatever and then an email saying that it did process. On 8/5 I got the reminde...

You can share outlines and exams. Especially if professors have moved schools.

Come summer time, it could be used to find subleases in different cities, as people work in different cities than they attend school.

It's been over 90 days since I requested the review of my qualifying payments so I called FedLoan to check in. The review isn't done yet because of high volume, okay. I mentioned that my issues are from payment dates getting advanced because I paid more than the minimum payment (because I have to sp...

Reach out to students at the schools the profs came from.

Don't get neurotic over meal choice. It's a 4-hour test in which you are sitting in a chair, not an ultramarathon or orbiting the earth in the Mercury capsule. Eat something practical and non-ridiculous but don't add another thing to your list of things to stress over.

Go see a doctor.

This is pretty typical for Criminal Justice majors: Low LSAT scores. That major tends to not attract the brightest of the bunch (not saying you are OP) and law school just isn't right for these types of people. It would probably behoove you to peruse a career with a different mental skill set, such...

--I took Evidence and a class on Forensic Science. Evidence particularly is KEY. Some offices actually want you to have taken it before they'll even consider you for a 2L summer job. --I did 3L criminal defense clinic. (This can backfire with some offices that want you ideologically pure :roll: but ...

In 2016 I had an awful cough that lasted like 6 weeks and one of the Chief DDAs, whose office was across the hall from mine, eventually just told me to go to the doctor and get tested for walking pneumonia. The doctor diagnosed Reactive Airway and gave me a daily inhaler that worked like a charm. Th...

We (very rural county with DA's office of 2 people and like 13 total law enforcement) just had a 4-hour visit from three AUSAs and an FBI agent telling us how much they would LOVE to take our gun/drug/trafficking cases off our hands for us. They've literally never accepted a case we've offered. Do y...

I think you know the ethically correct answer to this.



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Thu Jul 05, 2018 12:46 pm

You guys are being great. Thanks so much.

Way to be open to advice/correction/explanation without getting too defensive. That's not a willingness everyone possesses.

Not to hijack this thread, but does what everyone's saying here about getting along with opposing counsel apply to public defenders and prosecutors as well? It seems that there usually is more animosity there, although I could be wrong. I'm sure it helps to get along reasonably well in terms of neg...

Protip: Own your shit, and apologize completely and early. I'm supposed to send out plea offers 10 days in advance of plea. Usually I get them out 7-10 days prior. Defense never complains because they're not talking to their clients until the day before plea anyway. But yesterday I sent out THREE la...

General beginner courtroom advice. If you see the same judges frequently (for any kind of litigator): If you do your best to ALWAYS be on time and fully prepared, you will build up credit with most judges and once in a while you'll be able to just fall on your sword and say my bad, I really fucked u...

What kind of case was your first trial loss? What did you learn from it? First trial loss of any kind was a bench trial (no jury, trial to the court) violation of restraining order. I honestly can't remember a specific first loss, but some things I learned along the way of doing many many VRO trial...

i don't think it's weird at all. as i said, i thought it was a common courtesy to leave the seat down. have all of you "no big deal" people never shared a bathroom with a woman SO / coworker / colleague? many, if not most, don't like the seat being left up. i assume this was something that people l...