Law School Discussion

Make friends with a lawyer or someone who worked as a paralegal before law school and have them teach you how to Bluebook. At my school we learned enough about the Bluebook to cite cases and statutes for memos/briefs, but not enough for cite checking.

If you wait until the exercise is out to get help it'll be an honor code violation (or it should be).

I doubt Monday morning would be a problem.  Let's be realistic here.  If these are BIGLAW firms, odds are, many of the people you're meeting with spent a chunk of their weekend working anyway.  Mondays sort of loose their dreadfulness when you no longer get to play and screw around for a full 48 hours on the weekend.

This makes me sad...

When are we gonna get a VEEP announcement? The NYT and MSNBC had me all excited thinking we were gonna get one today...

I buy all mine through the bookstore b/c they usually have the best price and I know I'm getting the right edition. I prefer new books, and there isn't usually a big variance in the price of new casebooks. The B&N 20% off deal could be pretty good, but  a lot times they didn't have the most recent edition.

I was afraid of ordering used books online b/c I didn't know if they'd ship in times for classes. Profs at my school tend not to tell you what books to order until a week and half before classes start.

Buy a cheapo paperback edition. The Westlaw version is a pain in the ASS to use. The profs appreciate it when you look things up in the cases that you don't understand, so you don't look like a lazy person when they ask about it.