Law School

[Wiglaf]

That's why you go to law schools that give pass/high pass. That way you can get a pass for writing childish sex jokes on your exams instead of a C-.

[Solomwi]

Unless that C+ is in a "specialty" class and you're looking for a job in that particular field, I doubt you'll need the offer of referee service. A general reference, particularly with his connections, should be far more valuable. As a 2008 graduate who finally found a job this month, all I can say is to put as few restrictions on what kind of job you're looking for as possible, and try to work every angle you can think of to find leads (nobody's dumb enough to rely solely on Career Services, but you'd be surprised at what is easily overlooked, but turns up results). I'm spending the weeks in my hometown and weekends back at home with my wife and family, 3 hours away in Birmingham. Still, it beats by a long shot what I was doing, listening to seemingly every firm in Birmingham tell me they either weren't hiring at all or specifically weren't hiring from my class. Congratulations on the pending graduation. Don't worry too much about that little pop quiz this summer. You'll have plenty of time after graduation to prepare for it.

[Darius871]

That's it, I'm quitting law school:

Mistrial after defendant smears feces on his lawyer
Jan. 28, 2009

SAN DIEGO - A San Diego judge has declared a mistrial in a kidnapping and assault case after the defendant smeared excrement on his lawyer's face and threw it at jurors.

The judge boosted defendant Weusi McGowan's bail from $250,000 to $1 million after the Monday incident.

Prosecutor Christopher Lawson says McGowan was upset because the judge refused to remove public defender Jeffrey Martin from the case.

McGowan had smuggled a bag of feces into court and spread it on Martin's hair and face before flinging the excrement at jurors. No jurors were hit.

McGowan has pleaded not guilty to kidnapping for robbery, assault with a deadly weapon and other counts in connection with a 2007 home invasion.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28892909/

[Zkribbler]

My grades for the most recent semester came in. Two classes were Bs, and one was a C. Easily the worst grades I've ever gotten.

That's law school for you. Even the screw-off idiots in the back row are brilliant. Good grades are hard to get.

I don't know what the grading at your school is like, but IIRC, I received one (1) "A" in my entire law school career, and yet was on the Dean's List in every semester but one.

[Darius871]

Does your school do CALI Awards AC?

[Alinestra Covelia]

I don't know what the grading at your school is like, but IIRC, I received one (1) "A" in my entire law school career, and yet was on the Dean's List in every semester but one.

That's some mighty weird statistical anomalies right there! Good work on making the dean's list though

Yeah, our school is graded on a B- curve, and the larger the class, the stricter the curve. Over my entire career I've gotten two A-, two A, and one A+ grade. It's pretty safe to say I do not anticipate getting any species of A in this present (and final) semester, but stranger things have happened.

Still, it's funny that I can completely bomb two major subjects and see my GPA move just 0.03 points. If anything could show me the very nature of futility, this is it. Even when I suck, it doesn't sodding matter.

[Ben Kenobi]

Mine went up something like 0.75 over the course of a semester, but then you don't want to have the same GPA as I had coming in.