Law School Discussion

You need to be proactive in finding a job, not re-active (ie. Hoping for OCI or someone to just offer you a job from some resume you sent out, that’s how folks get stuck with crap jobs because that’s the only options they tried.)

This is an interesting point.  I got my 1L job from networking.  I got my 2L job from OCI due to high grades and law review.  I was offered a job from both employers at the end of my 2L summer.  I went with the 1L employer, who didn't really care about my grades and the fact that I was a fancy pants law review editor.  I went with the 1L employer because I knew I would enjoy working there and the practice area was more up my alley (although less money, at least at first.)

I follow the Paced Program as far as MBE and essay questions go.  That's usually 18 MBE questions per day.

Quote from: JD2013 on June 19, 2009, 11:02:10 PM

My landline lets me call half of the county. It used to be only the town, but the phone company pulled the stick out of the ass a bit I guess.

Quote from: Dr. Balsenschaft on June 19, 2009, 07:22:22 PM

Quote from: Matthies on June 19, 2009, 04:16:24 PM

What kind of phone rate plan are you on that you can’t even call one county away? Its long distance to call a few miles?

You can get phone plans that only allow you to make local outbound calls (with unlimited inbound calls.)  Phone plans usually differentiate between local, regional, and long distance rates.  Local is the smallest subset and can sometimes be as small as only your town.  Really, it depends on whatever confusing set of regulations your state has.

Yea you would think with all the competition from cell phones they would try to offer more services, I doubt I'll keep my landline much longer since my cell is cheaper with free long distance

Allowing you to choose just a local calling plan is useful precisely because most people will use their cell phone for long distance calls.  You have to pick some sort of service if you want to receive phone calls on your land line.  A strictly local calling plan is not a bad idea for those who just can't let go of the old land line now that they have a cell phone. 

Myself, I only have a land line (through the internet, so it includes long distance) and pay just $30/month.  Cell phone reception sucks where I live so it just made no sense for me and my wife to pay for a cell phone.   

I would've said mention it, but I'm not an attorney so don't take anything I say as legal advice.  I have no idea whether the bar examiners can find out about anything that was expunged from your record.  I suppose anything is possible.  For instance, what if they call up one of your references (if you have to list references) and a reference says, "Well gee, so and so is a great guy.  There was that one little incident back in 2005, but that was a minor indiscretion . . ."  Of course, you could tell your references not to mention it, but then you're asking people to lie for you.    

If your law school application asked whether you had any convictions and you answered "no," arguably, you answered as such because you didn't think you had to mention anything about convictions that were expunged from your record and you were acting on advice from an attorney.  But if your law school application asked you to disclose all convictions, including those that have been expunged, as your bar application likely will (you should check), then you knowingly lied on your law school application.  Regardless, I don't think a late disclosure, in and of itself, is necessarily going to hurt you depending on how you explain it.  I seriously doubt a law school would ever take back your acceptance, but they can more or less do whatever the hell they want (with varying levels of limitation depending on whether it's a state school or not.)  However, I really don't know.  Most people probably don't know.  It also depends on the circumstances of your conviction.  I had a bunch of criminal convictions on my application, but none of them were for dishonesty.  The fact that you omitted a crime of dishonesty on your application doesn't look that great from my perspective.  

If you do disclose it to the school and then check with the bar examiners to see how it will effect you three years from now, at least you won't have to think about it.

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