Law school is a wonderful misery, an enlightening conundrum, and an absolute what-if.  The point is that law school is a great endeavor, and being a lawyer is a noble profession.  But sometimes you just want to pull your hair out, shout to the heavens, and then jump off a cliff.
If you want to keep [...]

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It comes as no surprise that your law school GPA is a significant factor future employers may consider.  But what does your GPA really say about you?  I would propose that the answer is generally different for non traditional law students as opposed to traditional law students.
For the most part, a traditional law student will [...]

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According to this article from Law.com, the University of Illinois College of Law became the second law school to announce admission plans that do not require an LSAT score.  The first was the University of Michigan Law School. Is this going to become a trend among the nation’s law schools?
Personally, I have never put much [...]

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Law school is unlike most other educational endeavors we have undertaken.  In college it was many times just enough to “cram and regurgitate”.  This may have produced a good exam grade, but it did precious little more.  The reason is that cramming puts information into our short-term memory.  Real study and learning puts information into [...]

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Much ado about the economy has saturated much of the presidential race.  While I in no way believe that this is not an important issue, there are other issues to consider as well.  A president is elected for a term of four years.  During those four years he will undoubtedly implement his views of what [...]

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Kudos to Inter-Alia for pointing me in the direction of this great little printing tool.  I do a lot of printing in law school, and it annoys me when my web pages never print out right.  If some of you other law students out there have the same problem, then Print What You Like is [...]

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I was surfing my usual suspects and happened upon an intriguing site.  FreshBooks is an affordable online billing system that looks very promising.  Here are some of the features you can expect.

Easily create, send and manage invoices
Track time and expenses (for you and staff)Send invoices by snail mail or email
Accept payment with PayPal, Authorize.Net, & [...]

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Today was 70s day at my kid’s high school.  Here is my oldest son looking cool!

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It will come as no surprise that if lawyers are to succeed in this day and age they must be familiar with technology.  As law students it would behoove us to become technologically saavy now, before we become lawyers.  Gone are the days when people look in the yellow pages to find a lawyer.  The [...]

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I have been tagged by the Part-time Law School Blawg.  Now I have the honor of tagging 5 of the Law School Blawgs that I frequent.  These are some of the Blawgs that I really enjoy reading and reccommend to all you other Nontraditional Law Students.

PT Law Mom
Shelly’s Case
Frugal Law Student
Life of a Law Student
NonTradLaw

Happy [...]

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