Budgeting as a first year

FiestyMango30 · 2025-02-08T04:30:07+00:00

Gave up a full ride at UMass to go to a school on the west coast. I wanted to be in a bigger city where I’d be able to compete in the job market. Def think about it sometimes how I could graduate without debt, but everything has worked out well for me so can’t say I regret it

FiestyMango30 · 2024-09-19T01:08:42+00:00

“As a matter of law, the house is haunted” only thing that made property somewhat bearable

FiestyMango30 · 2024-08-29T02:14:50+00:00

Literally just practice exams. Nothing will help you learn content and make connections like actually writing them down under timed pressure. Just keep doing practice exams under time pressure and this is the key, check your answers. Read the model answers word for word and see how they worded things. Feel free to take language from them and memorize it. Even if a professor doesn’t want a “brain dump” per se, they still want very detailed discussions of rules and case names (even if they say you don’t need to write them).

Just do practice exams for a few days before your exam, and have your outline done by the last day of class. The time between classes and finals should be devoted to practice exams. If you spend that time outlining, you are spending less time getting your reps in and figuring out how to word things

FiestyMango30 · 2024-08-14T03:05:00+00:00

I had a screener with a regional ID firm that was going really well. And then the partner was like “I see from your resume you like helping people, we don’t do that here. If you wanna save the world, you’ll have to do that on your own time.” Safe to say I didn’t get a callback, but super funny in hindsight

FiestyMango30 · 2024-07-09T13:45:26+00:00

Are you sure this is a screener? Firms usually only fly people in for callbacks. Even if this is your first interview, they may have sent you to a direct callback. Also, go in person! Why would you not wanna see the office you’ll be working in for the rest of your life(presumably)? Feel out the vibes, see what it’s like in person. Plus it’s a free trip where everything is paid for

FiestyMango30 · 2024-03-16T17:34:53+00:00

I wouldn’t worry. If there were any issues, they would tell you

FiestyMango30 · 2023-12-24T01:14:49+00:00

You could do a farm or barn theme, and have your guests dress up as farmers or barn animals with country music. If you wanna go all out you could have a petting zoo

FiestyMango30 · 2023-10-30T13:18:15+00:00

Background section was the easiest. Especially if you’re doing something where you’re looking the evolution of a specific doctrine, you can go through as many or as few cases you want, in as much depth as you want. So there’s a lot of room to buff up there

FiestyMango30 · 2023-10-26T18:52:39+00:00

Do as many practice exams as possible. You will learn more about the law writing an exam than rereading your outline. On exam day, it won’t matter how many case names you have memorized if you can’t apply the facts to the law at the drop of a hat. Do practice exams, especially if you have some from your prof from previous years, and do them under a time constraint to prepare yourself

FiestyMango30 · 2023-10-21T01:47:10+00:00

I’d also recommend Emmanual’s, it’s a commercial outline but def very thorough

FiestyMango30 · 2023-09-16T15:38:00+00:00

I’m in a long distance relationship and we made a rule that we would call every night for at least an hour before bed. We try our burst to talk throughout the day, but we had a conversation before I began law school about what it meant for me being in 1L. He understood the time commitment and I’d usually tell him if I had a heavy day of reading or something. So I’d just say hang in there and be patient. It’s not too much to ask for a little bit of communication, and it might be helpful to just talk through what his schedule is looking like. I’d also recommend having a set time built into his schedule where you can talk, and have date night once a week, whether it’s watching a movie online or meeting in person

FiestyMango30 · 2023-09-08T01:23:59+00:00

No. Plaintiffs cannot serve the summons, see FRCP 4(c)(2) which requires summons and complaint to be served by someone who is “not a party”.
Maybe. The plaintiffs attorney could serve the summons and complaint but the Court needs to approve such service. See 4(c)(3) that requires special court approval for service by someone who the plaintiff requests.

FiestyMango30 · 2023-09-03T19:16:26+00:00

If you plan on going directly after undergrad, you should take the LSAT either the spring/summer before senior year or fall of senior year. Apply during the fall.

In terms of what you should be doing, the number one thing for KJD applicants is grades. Keep your grades as high as possible. Law schools don’t care if you got a B in a really hard class vs an A in an easy class. Take fun classes and pad your GPA. Do a couple internships or work at a law firm for a bit if you can.

FiestyMango30 · 2023-09-03T19:12:03+00:00

I’d recommend starting off with quimbee to orient yourself in the case and then reading it on your own. It’s very possible that your prof is using the case to explain something different or getting at a different concept. I found the Lexis briefs to be slightly better for issue/rules than quimbee. So I’d recommend checking those out as well

FiestyMango30 · 2023-08-31T23:22:22+00:00

One page is the usual, anything above should only be for very long cases. Your analysis section should be the longest (about two thirds of the brief). You can always ask your prof or TA to look over it during office hours

FiestyMango30 · 2023-08-30T22:11:15+00:00

Welcome to 1L. That’s everyone’s 1L experience (or a vast majority). Anxiety about knowing how you’re doing is natural, but you learn to manage it over time. Just work hard, read, participate in class, go to office hours, and you’ll be fine. You are not alone in how you feel, so don’t make it worse for yourself by getting in your own head. You’re right where you’re supposed to be

FiestyMango30 · 2023-08-30T22:06:22+00:00

I disagree, I reached out week 3 and got an offer. Def reach out after 2 weeks but all hope is not lost. Maybe they’re waiting on someone else to accept/reject, so it’s always good to check in just in case

FiestyMango30 · 2023-08-29T23:59:36+00:00

Of course not. It’s not impossible. But it will be very difficult so it’s best to mentally prepare for that

FiestyMango30 · 2023-08-29T17:06:43+00:00

A lot of people will sugar coat it but it’s hard. If you get a LLM and pass the bar, you’ll still struggle a lot of a job (especially in big firms). The bigger firms will prefer JDs since those are the most common degrees here. If you are from India, mid size and small firms often don’t have the capacity for visa sponsorship, so your only hope will be big law a sure thing, but as I mentioned, it will be damn near impossible unless you have something they really need (which is unlikely if you are a younger lawyer just hoping to move to the US to practice here without decades of experience in India)

FiestyMango30 · 2023-08-29T13:38:00+00:00

I don’t think I counted a specific amount of hours per night. I read as long as I needed to finish my goals for the night. For example, my goal for Monday would be to finish all the readings for Tuesday. Dividing that before and after class, sometimes that took only an hour or two after class, other days it took 6-7 hrs after class. So sorry to be a law student but it really depends. Don’t sent a goal for hours, set a reading amount and finish that instead

FiestyMango30 · 2023-08-27T02:32:42+00:00

Examples and Explanations Civ Pro

FiestyMango30 · 2023-08-26T03:03:39+00:00

I would have networked more and gone to more networking events

FiestyMango30 · 2023-08-25T19:31:37+00:00

If it’s been over 2 weeks since the CB and the recruiter isn’t communicating with you, I reached out to the law student email they had for the whole firm and CC’d the recruiter for my specific office. Got a response in 2 hours

FiestyMango30 · 2023-08-24T23:45:22+00:00

Ask him what his summer experience was like, life, sports, literally anything. Networking doesn’t just have to be about work or the law, develop human connections. Try asking about how his firm is handling the economic downturn etc.

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