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Studying for the LSAT / Re: should I change my test date to october?« on: Yesterday at 06:15:39 AM »october test be hardest ever? I've never seen this kind of indecision from you before, Julie. Is everything okay, or should I invite BW back to play? 2
General Off-Topic Board / Re: Criminal cases and memorisation« on: June 03, 2013, 10:06:17 PM »
There are case briefs for every case you'll encounter on Wikipedia, and in Westlaw and Lexis-Nexis.
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Acceptances / Re: Nebraska Law or Denver/Sturm Law?« on: April 14, 2013, 05:05:54 PM »
If you want to practice in Colorado, go to school in Colorado. It really is just that simple. If you want to work in Denver, specifically, do whatever you must to go to DU. Better still, start making local contacts in the legal community. You can talk with Judge Alfred Harrell at the Denver County/Municipal Court about going to meetings of the Inns of Court, where you will meet local attorneys, get to know them, and best of all, let them get to know you.
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General Off-Topic Board / Re: Should I go to law school?« on: April 11, 2013, 03:30:36 PM »1) Can you explain to me what lawyers do? This brief response conveyed far more than I'm sure even you wanted it to. Don't go to law school. 5
Where should I go next fall? / Re: From a recently barred attorney - What I wish I knew before I went to law school« on: April 10, 2013, 02:17:11 PM »
One of the posters here a couple years ago--active duty Navy, Annapolis grad--tried to get into JAG and wasn't accepted. It's incredibly hard to get in.
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Where should I go next fall? / Re: JD or DBA or both?« on: April 10, 2013, 02:08:10 PM »
If you must do one, do the DBA. Based on what you wrote here about your career, you don't even need to go to law school. You certainly won't need a JD. If you want to learn about areas of law that affect your career in logistics, you can go to law school for a limited time, learning only the things that apply to what you do and what you want to know. These programs are generally called a Master of Legal Studies or Master of Studies in Law.
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Where should I go next fall? / Re: JD or DBA or both?« on: April 10, 2013, 02:06:04 PM »
If you must do one, do the DBA. Based on what you wrote here about your career, you don't even need to go to law school. You certainly won't need a JD. If you want to learn about areas of law that affect your career in logistics, you can go to law school for a limited time, learning only the things that apply to what you do and what you want to know. These programs are generally called a Master of Legal Studies or Master of Studies in Law.
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General Off-Topic Board / Re: Should I go to law school?« on: April 10, 2013, 01:45:59 PM »
A T2 school will in no way guarantee a job, of any kind, after graduation. Working in engineering instead of a legal environment while you're in law school will only aggravate this when it comes to hiring. Like Jack said, unless you're taking the patent bar and the firm needs a patent attorney, anything regarding engineering will be perceived as irrelevant (or even viewed negatively, as a waste of time that could've been spent doing legal work) to what they want you to do for them, which is almost as a rule grunt work in any area of law they personally don't want to handle, for any new associate.
Because your goal is to be a partner in your own firm, anyway, you still don't have to go to law school. You just have to know something about business, including accounting, recruitment and hiring practices, marketing, business development, human resources, and know a couple lawyers, and you could be a managing partner of a firm tomorrow. They could even be 3Ls now, and creating the firm could be their first application of what they learned in Business Associations, or whatever they're calling it at their school, once they've passed the bar and are ready to jump into practice. That expert witness thing Jack talked about: hugely lucrative. I can't believe how much those guys get paid. Do that, yesterday. I guess a couple questions are in order: 1) Can you explain to me what lawyers do? 2) What excites you about doing that? 9
General Off-Topic Board / Re: Should I go to law school?« on: April 09, 2013, 01:25:32 AM »
Personally, if I were in your position, I would take the engineering degree and job experience to work for the Patent and Trademark Office. That would prevent the loss of three years' salary, the hassle of trying to find a job after leaving law school, and would provide a salary at least comparable to what you would be making after law school (if you found a job right away). So, instead of spending a ton of money for three years, you could be making it. I mean, it would be in DC, but I can think of far worse places.
http://careers.uspto.gov/Pages/PEPositions/Jobs.aspx 10
General Board / Re: Part-time student, what is typical 1L class schedule?« on: April 02, 2013, 10:29:19 PM »Quote from: Willamette Law Course Schedule Unfortunately, the only people who know your schedule--including which courses you will take on which days and at what times--will be you and the part-time program coordinator, after you've spoken. |
