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Borhas wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 02, 2021 5:25 pm

is 1500 billable hours requirement a lot or not a lot? (NOT biglaw)

I'm switching to private practice and that's my firm's requirement.

It seems... manageable?

Unthinkably low for biglaw. No idea elsewhere. Sounds manageable to me.

Do people recommend LSAT courses? I know Khan academy is free. The most important aspect of study by far is practice tests; the various text books about study strategies felt pretty interchangeable when I prepped. Khan Academy wasn't around way back then, but my guess based on their other courses I...

ezrafitz wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 12, 2021 5:06 pm

NCBartender15 wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 12, 2021 3:44 pm

Wow, all of this feedback is amazing everyone. Thank you. I did not expect this amount of responses with all of this great insight.

Thank you all so much.

Do I sense a shade of sarcasm?

I think the internet has just warped our capacity to process earnestness in plain text.

Yup, as everyone's already said it's the combination of potentially brutal hours and the fact that you might be called upon to complete more of them at any time with little or no notice. Or, alternatively, you might sit there not billing and devouring yourself with anxiety over how you're going to m...

I echo what others have said. The fact that you took the LSAT cold is further evidence that you should retake. A 161 is a pretty good score if you didn’t study. You could probably get to at least a 165 with just a few weeks of study, and you could almost certainly get a 170 if you’re willing to put...

I can't speak to the "tech law" question (idk what tech law means but my understanding is that the patent bar requires a STEM degree). But if you want to practice in California I don't think there's much question Berkeley makes more sense than UVA at the same price point.

With a 178-80 I wouldn’t assume you’re auto-ding anywhere. I’m too far out of the application loop to know the numbers game (check out LSN info), but instinctively I’d recommend applying to the whole T14 for that potential $$$ negotiation if nothing else.

Pure numbers game, was always my understanding? Which is unfortunate for some given the varying difficulties of different UG degree programs.

pancakes3 wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 06, 2020 8:06 pm

join your local bar association and start networking.

but yeah if you're gonna do it start hustling yesterday ^

you'll definitely need experienced attorney friends you can call willing to take your questions

Unfortunately law school does not prepare anyone adequately for the practice of law or the business of running a law firm. Running a case (let alone a caseload) unsupervised without experience in the relevant legal area is a recipe for disaster both for the 4L and the client. It is way easier, more...

Yeah, I’m afraid I don’t have much advice besides “wait another year.” Improving your score in such a short period while working full time would be monumentally difficult. It’s going to take a lot more studying and practice testing to get there.

Talk to a character and fitness attorney if you’re worried about it. I’m not one, but I would assume a speeding ticket is the textbook definition of a minor traffic offense. The PA Bar Examiners, at least, agree: DEFINITION OF MINOR TRAFFIC VIOLATION: Minor traffic violations are those that do not r...

yeah partly what I mean is, just don’t use canned briefs. they’re a crapshoot for class prep and they aren’t particularly helpful for exam study all the ones I tried in LS were really bad, and usually by the time I’d find a half-decent one I could’ve just skimmed the actual case with more thorough c...

I've heard about "canned briefs" as a way to streamline the case reading process (or the case review process shortly before exams). I'm looking for information on the best sources of these briefs. Which books/software programs/other sources provide the most useful briefs? Or if that's too subjectiv...

Consensus answer always used to be yeah, it probably does. It’s been a long time since I applied to law school though. At the very least you’re eliminating your ability to bargain using better offers.

I studied anywhere from 3-6 hours a day in June, switched to more of a steady 8-hour in the first week of July. I was in an MBE auto-pass state, so I focused mostly on getting consistently high multiple choice scores (idrr my goal percentage, maybe 80%?). I outlined CREAC answers now and then but di...

I give this post's authenticity AITA odds.

Actually stunned.

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ymmv wrote: ↑

Tue May 12, 2020 9:06 pm

Aimee Stephens died

Of the two, Catholic, assuming "$$$" means something close to a full ride. I'm guessing you know the regional job prospects from either school are going to be pretty dire, particularly in the wake of what might turn out to be a Second Great Depression? This doesn't seem like a wonderful time to be l...

You don’t have to overturn RvW if you just continue down the current path of rendering it meaningless through a nightmarish web of Casey cases and state measures that eliminate the possibility of getting an abortion without directly criminalizing it (though they continue to do that too, of course). ...

Some people even carry case notes with them to read on the way to the water cooler.

It's really hard to say without knowing where you've been admitted and what the job prospects are from your current school. But I'd tend towards saying With a full ride, I'd stay put. Especially given the uncertainty of the economy, adding unnecessary debt is not wise. The conventional wisdom is you...

Yes, it was the middle of last week. Funny thing is that over the past week I've noticed sometimes I do get to see the number (1) for notifications, or [1] for new posts on a page. But often the [1] for new posts doesn't come up, and even when it does, it's just [1] rather than the actual number of...

When a page on the forum had new posts, or when I had a notification, I would always see a number in brackets or parentheses next to the title of the page in my tabs on Chrome. The number indicated the number of new posts in that thread, or the total number of notifications. It would look like [3] ...