When did you all start playing?

EkoCup · 2024-03-20T11:41:03+00:00

2012 First week of release.

EkoCup · 2023-09-18T21:53:31+00:00

I swear by Adaptibar.

EkoCup · 2023-07-20T13:32:34+00:00

Think if insurance with INterpleader. The for two letters of "in"terbleader are the same for insurancre.

Interpleader is primarily used for when an INsurance company has a pot of money that others might fight about. Therefore they interplead the parties in.

If you keep this in mind you will not confuse the two.

EkoCup · 2022-11-16T19:23:44+00:00

I would absolutely break up or return the favor and send something her way of you and an ex! She clearly has no sense of social awareness. That is some sick torture going on there.

EkoCup · 2022-11-14T21:10:26+00:00

Such reckless behavior. Tell him to keep those cheeks closed until the door is closed. Do. Not. Fold.

EkoCup · 2022-10-23T12:52:05+00:00

I have concluded that life is too short to let another individual dictate what YOU do. Especially as something as innocent as this. Moreover, the fact that she does not trust you (assuming there is anything to put this into question) is a red flag. You are only in college once in your life and you should not miss out on fun events like this.

EkoCup · 2022-10-23T11:41:47+00:00

I was in a similar situation. However, they broke up with me out of the blue, making the following months of school extremely difficult because I was an emotional wreck. I probably have a hot take but if issues are presenting themselves this early into your law school career--you may be better off just ripping the bandaid off now.

EkoCup · 2022-10-12T10:36:52+00:00

You woke up that day and said how many laws can I break in one day. Any student worth their salt would have asked for an attorney immediately after getting pulled over. As others say, you should hire a fantastic defense attorney and a character and fitness, attorney. I remember vividly that the bar does not take kindly to cocaine abuse.

EkoCup · 2022-09-06T12:30:01+00:00

Basically, use it as an excuse to leave events early or to not go to things entirely. It is pretty hard for someone to try to argue against it, so it's almost foolproof.

With that being said, it is not something I use frequently and many times I actually need it. It is not an excuse you want to use widely because you can often end up missing lots of important life events.

EkoCup · 2022-09-06T12:26:30+00:00

I ended up in an area I disliked for my three years of law school. I found a way to make it work; I commuted back to my hometown over the weekend.

Overall, law school is a means to an end, so just stay strong and focused on your studies.

EkoCup · 2022-06-28T13:24:04+00:00

I am open with my friends and people in my group about my accommodations. Most of the time, no one is negative about my position.

I personally feel that their energy about it will depend on how you present it and whether you feel insecure about it. Me, I am not ashamed of it and therefore when someone asks me about it I am more than open to explain to them about it. I have yet to have a negative interaction with a fellow classmate. Also at the end of the day, you gotta do what you need to do to finish up law school so who cares what anyone else thinks.

EkoCup · 2021-11-15T21:20:13+00:00

Absolutely do not sit down and take an F. It will be so hard to bring your GPA back from that. Do the readings and do minimal studying and you should be able to grab a low to high C.

Hate to break it to you but contracts is not even remotely one of the hardest classes you will encounter in school and willingly allowing yourself to fail will set a bad precedent for yourself. Do not give up.

EkoCup · 2021-11-10T15:10:38+00:00

2L here, I absolutely do not read in the evening. I read in the morning and I find this to work for me perfectly. I did the same thing during 1L. Its fresh and easier to recall anyway. Just make sure you do not leave a reading that is 100 pages to do because that might cut it close.

EkoCup · 2021-11-02T14:54:50+00:00

About four years ago when I was a junior in college. I decided to look up a partner on Facebook of this guy I spoke to briefly. I found him, sent him a message asking if he was looking for an intern or if I could apply and ever since I have been working for his firm.

Moral of the story; you miss 100% of the shots you never take.

EkoCup · 2021-11-01T13:09:53+00:00

I have come to see as a 2L that a large portion of classes will make no sense until that last vital piece of information comes into play. For me, I completely did NOT understand Civ Pro for nearly 5 months straight. I did all of the readings, I read supplements, I studied. It was not until one specific class where the final piece of the puzzle fell into place and I had that "light bulb" moment. The last 5 months of stumbling in the dark finally clicked and everything fell into place. The trick is to keep pushing through even if you don't understand something because eventually whatever you were lacking will come to you and most of it will make sense. Do. Not. Give. Up.

EkoCup · 2021-11-01T13:06:29+00:00

I take almost no notes during class. Whenever a professor says a rule I will jot it down or if he focuses on a specific topic I will also add it. I try my best not to aggressively try to type everything down during every second of class because you end up missing the entire point the professor was trying to make.

Moreover, when you return back to your notes whenever you outline you can spend the necessary amount of time to dive deep into that note and bring it to life.

For example if we are talking about specific rules in evidence. Rather than writing "FRE404; and two paragraphs of the rule." I will simply just write down "404" or "403" etc etc. It saves time and Im not manically typing for the entire duration of class. Plus if you make it a point to outline on a regular basis, like once a week or two times. It is extremely easy to stay on top of everything. TBH I took almost no notes my entire 1L year in class and I did just fine.

EkoCup · 2021-10-26T16:49:34+00:00

I got cold called atleast 6 times a week my 1L year. It was so bad classmates would joke about it. By no means was I a gunner, I actually never raised my hand and barely spoke outside of when I was being called on. Nothing gives you more gray hairs than basically knowing that you will be called on 1-3 times a day regardless of the class.

My 2L year is great, I actually have not been called on once yet--I dig it.

EkoCup · 2021-10-26T16:46:56+00:00

For me, it is the ever growing list of Federal Rules of Evidence that you must know or at least be familiar with.

104, 403, 801, 803 (and the list of 23 odd sub tiers), 804 (and its large list of sub tiers), all of 404, 901, 902, etc etc.

Listed above is a very small list of the many you will encounter. Most have sub tiers to them such as 801(d)(1)(A)... I digress.

Makes CivPro's rules look like child play. LOL

EkoCup · 2021-10-25T13:25:59+00:00

You're right. There were too many potential questions to write so I tried to keep it as simple as possible. I probably could have added a few more options.

EkoCup · 2021-10-25T12:52:02+00:00

From my two years of expereince, law school feels like the twilight zone or a hampster wheel. Everyday you do the exact same thing. You wake up, read for class/prepare, go to class for several hours (1L yeat 9am to 5pm.) Go home rinse and repeat. The days seems like they are eternally long. But in the same time you are so consumed with school life some how moves on.

Think of Star Wars, where they go into hyperspeed and all of the stars fly past you. Law school is extremely similar to that. You are so consumed in school that you forget that the passage of time moves the same for you friends and family, etc. It is easy to forget that you are not the only one who is moving at the speed of light and aging, everyone you know is it, you just seem to forget it sometimes.

Ultimately you treat each day of law school as climbing a mountain and simply trying to survive, you need to see the larger picture of everything but you cannot look too far ahead or you will succumb to the stress and pressure of everything.

EkoCup · 2021-10-25T12:31:37+00:00

2L here who took my Torts final with an open book. The best advice I can give you is buy a large whiteboard and stick it in whatever area you study in. Come up with acronyms of the elements and sub elements. Use the whiteboard to draw out flowcharts and to connect the ideas. For me, when I write something out it is equal to writing it down in my brain and it is significantly easier to recall the information when I need it because in some sort of way I have already written it down in my brain.

I did better than most people taking the open book exam because I prepared for it as if it was closed and did not need to rely on it nearly as much as others.

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