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Kinda just wing it.

More seriously, just about anything you can work on in a legal setting is laden with political meaning, and my experience is lawyers talking pretty freely about this stuff during downtime. On a case you usually have a pretty clear goal as a client advocate, and metacommentary might be irrelevant, b...

Awesome, and congratulations! And this adds to my growing belief that it's not necessarily the worst thing in the world for a young defense attorney to come off as a little nervous.

Skers wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 12, 2019 11:21 am

No one is raising this year. Everyone will be batten down the hatches and waiting to see if there's a downturn next year based on partner convos and hiring trends around here.

This is my sense as well

The other thing to keep in mind is that all legal academic writing is bullshit and the most important things in getting published are pedigree, connections, and having a catchy title.

Question: the etiquette of addressing clients. Both PD offices I have interned at have an official policy of always addressing a client as "Mr. X" or "Mrs. Y" or "Ms. Z." In person, in writing, and over the phone. I find this to be somewhat socially awkward and running against my down to earth natu...

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Sat Jun 29, 2019 1:26 pm

BlendedUnicorn wrote: ↑

Tue Jun 25, 2019 3:44 pm

Sounds like a super fucking cool 1l summer.

I wish it helped though for my application

It might, and it definitely won’t hurt, and that’s really all you can ask for from a 1L job.

It's generally background in litigation type stuff. Like federal or state rules of evidence aren't really ConLaw, but the Confrontation Clause looms over a lot of potential disputes. Or you'll have a Miranda issue in a criminal case but also a ton of other issues. You're probably more likely to spen...

byronpaf wrote: ↑

Sat May 11, 2019 5:04 pm

This reads like a mafia movie script except it's too far fetched and no-one would believe it

Wut?

For any Federal PDs in here: How/when do you investigate your cases? (interview alibi witnesses, visit crime scenes, etc) I've read a bunch of "A Day in the Life" type threads by PDs, and it is hard for me to understand when or how you actually do these things. Curious as to why you want an answer ...

Nebby wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 27, 2019 10:43 am

Thank God for printing deadlines?

Much like every other argument the government advanced in that case, those are almost certainly bullshit.

necho2 wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 27, 2019 10:29 am

Yeah like at some point you just gotta resolve to win the race to the bottom right?

or at the very least at least try to keep up

So obviously the response as dems is to pull a maryland and gerymander the fuck out of blue states, right?

RIP representative democracy, we never knew you.

I feel like both Kavanaugh and Gorsuch have weird little quirks in their shitcon ideology that make it pretty likely that one or the other will join the lib justices in criminal justice cases, and I guess that's about as much as anyone could hope for. Prophetic? https://twitter.com/SCOTUSblog/statu...

I feel like both Kavanaugh and Gorsuch have weird little quirks in their shitcon ideology that make it pretty likely that one or the other will join the lib justices in criminal justice cases, and I guess that's about as much as anyone could hope for.

Sounds like a super fucking cool 1l summer.

Like Thomas is 100% correct that Batson as a prophelylactic has been an unmitigated failure that does basically nothing to protect defendants from racist juries.

I can't believe (tho I can) that Thomas wrote this, and even Gorsuch thought it was too much and didn't join this part: In sum, as other Members of this Court have recognized, Batson charted the course for eliminating peremptory strikes. See, e.g., Rice v. Collins, 546 U. S. 333, 344 (2006) (BREYER...

One of the more interesting 5-4 splits this session. Ginsburg, Thomas, Sotomayor, Kagan, and Gorsuch in the majority. https://twitter.com/SCOTUSblog/status/1140625276201840641 I haven't read any analysis of this yet but is there a chance this could be used to undermine challenges to gerrymandering ...

Do you not like your job? Is that really "as brief as possible." The problem with law school as an old isn't law school. You're probably less likely to get sucked into all the high school drama but that's a plus, not a negative. The problem is do you really want to go to a firm and (more or less) be...

I have it on good authority that some folks do, in fact, say that. But it's tough for me to see how that would come out.

It might be an office by office thing. There certainly is an element of hypocrisy to using weed and signing up to be an AUSA.

Wait who says that?

At the end of the day most USA Offices are going to be looking for 1) writing skills and 2) experience in court/running cases. P side lit seems like it would be a pretty good opportunity to develop both.

I’m going to give a shorter answer; in your first decade or so of practice this is impossible.