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June 26, 2005
Weekly Law School Roundup: Mixin' Cocktails With A Plastic-Tipped Cigar
Hey sportsfans! Welcome to the Weekly Law School Blawg Roundup! As Dave! mentioned last time, we're trying to continue the tradition started by Evan Schaeffer, but you know what? It ain't easy. Somehow Evan always managed to make the Roundup entertaining and enlightening, and that turns out to be a fairly tough thing to do. But while we can't duplicate the magic he made, we can sort of riff on it a little, so here's a bit of what's happening in various small pockets of the law student blogosphere in the heat of the summer:
Like many a recent law school graduate, Expressio Unis is studying for the bar and tracking the relative attractive qualities of the various BarBri lecturers. I can corroborate the fact that Professor Paula Franzese does have ways of making property memorable, but whether her glamor pics have anything to do with it I'm not sure. Speaking of glamor pics, I don't know how I missed this before, but check out all these other, um, “hot” law profs. Where are all the hot men?!? (BarBri aside, this is a common question at many law schools, I hear. People, Dave! and I can't be everywhere at once, ok?)
But it's not all hotness on the bar review circuit. In fact, according to Woman of the Law, studying for the bar pretty much blows, and it sort of sounds like it doesn't help when all of your problems revolve around cocktails. Um, E. McP? How can you study for the bar when you're playing around with your music collection? Oh, and for another diversion, what do you think about women who carry condoms?
Kelly is also studying for the bar (and commenting on instructor appearances), but she's also got a loan consolidation question. Damn. That July 1 deadline is coming right up, people! I have a letter telling me that Sallie Mae's “team of Concierge Specialists” are ready to help you “start saving now” at 800-609-6865! Perhaps we should all give them a call—you think?
Somewhere around the other end of the law school anxiety spectrum, lots of people are waiting to start school this fall. That's where T Sinister sits, poised to start at Harvard in a month or two. He's optimistic and learning all sorts of things about 1L from Madisonian Theory. He's also thinking even further ahead, preparing for his first-year associate gig by reading the Stankowski Reports, courtesy of the inimitable Evan Schaeffer (the father of the Weekly Law School Roundup!).
Speaking of pre-laws (and also pre-pre-laws who have not yet made a firm decision to attend law school), keep an eye on the new Should You Really Be A Lawyer? blog. There's not much there yet, but it could be great as it grows; it's being written by Deborah Schneider, author of possibly the best book for anyone trying to decide whether to make the law school leap.
So where were we? Oh yeah, somewhere in between preparing for 1L and studying for the bar, which means we are .... applying for judicial clerkships! Or not. According to PV, it's a royal freakin' mess, and that's really all I can say about that since I've dropped the ball on it so I'd just prefer to pretend it's not an opportunity I'll be missing, thanks. But hey, applying for clerkships isn't the only thing you can do between 1L and the Bar; you can also join those like the Unreasonable Man who are waiting to hear if they made it onto a journal, or you can join Tony at Parenthetical Statement and decide to get another degree. More school? No thanks.
Elsewhere and more randomly, it seems that Divine Angst is getting baked, although not exactly in the way you might think. Transmogriflaw is blending her legal career back into her life and it appears she's learning to expect the unexpected. (Her blog is becoming an invaluable first-person perspective on the challenges of balancing motherhood with law school and a legal career, for any of you who might be curious about that.) Lawrah is learning about bathroom bureaucracy, Energy Spatula rocked her finals and loves her job, and Bad Glacier survived the needles. Schteino was not pleased with a recent Hollywood blockbuster, Anthony Rickey was at least mostly satisfied with another, and Janine has been enjoying some audiovisual entertainments from the past.
I could go on, but you know, as Pavement says, it's summer babe.
Posted by mowabb at June 26, 2005 05:59 AM
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Comments
Thanks for keeping the tradition going! I always enjoy the Roundup. As for those calling Sallie Mae this week - good luck - methinks they are a wee bit overloaded.
Posted by: Kelly at June 27, 2005 12:04 AM
Thanks for keeping this going. I always liked it on Evan's blog. And cheers for the link!
Posted by: transmogriflaw at June 27, 2005 10:54 PM
I'm not taking the bar!
Posted by: Dylan at June 29, 2005 11:19 PM
Wordup to this feature. I'm very glad you've taken this up.
Posted by: Tokyo at July 1, 2005 03:23 PM