It has been a while since I have talked to all you non traditional law students.  I have been extremely busy lately with trial classes and clinical internships.  Because I am a weekend student (and must work full time) the only internship I could reasonably take was the Estate Planning Clinic.  But how cool it [...]

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By the way, the title does not imply that you should try to vote three times ;)  November 4th is going to be an exciting day, and this election has all the tells of a real nail biter.  As lawyers and law students we should be especially cognizant of this great privilege to vote.  This [...]

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

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Well, I took the MPRE last week finally.  It was not too bad, but it was more difficult than I thought it would be.  Many law students look at the MPRE as a “cake” test.  The theory is that if you did well in your Professional Responsibility class then you will have no problem on [...]

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Many times we law students seem to sit through class without uttering a peep.  If you are in a class that utilizes the Socratic method heavily you probably sit in fear that the professor may call on you next to recite a case.  Why is that?
If you know the case (which you should) it should [...]

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Being the restless person that I am I have changed the look of the site.  I hope you enjoy it.

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We have all heard the term “think outside the box”. I actually hate that term; it has been so overused that it has lost its “oomph” power to motivate people. While I do not disagree with the idea of the phrase, I believe there are many ways to think inside the box and [...]

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My wife and I were having a conversation that somehow ended up discussion why our children always referred to any type of meat as chicken.  Strange huh?  But during the course of this strange conversation my wife questioned why we call chicken, chicken?  We don’t call beef, cow.  We don’t call pork, pig.  So why [...]

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