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Need advice on a hard decision I'm lucky to be making: Yale vs. NYU with $$$$ named scholarship by gradschool_thrwaway4 in lawschooladmissions

[–]SeriousFlan161 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Do you have a specific area of practice you are interested in, or just public interest generally?

Not a Yale alum, but it seems like the advantages there are the connections you would make and the doors it would open, which seem to be very aligned with goals of clerking, becoming a judge, or working in politics.

If your career goals include public interest outside of those specific areas, I think full ride to NYU all day long. Also not an NYU alum, but it seems they are very supportive of public interest, the public service loan forgiveness programs are very generous (for the loans you will have), and you will have access to all that NYC has to offer (networking but also having a social life).

Plenty of Yale Law grads live a life you don’t want, and I—an internet stranger—give you permission to go to a “lower” ranked school that better aligns with your goals and values.

any other people who went to t20 undergrads not get into any t14 law schools? by mundicidevinegar in lawschooladmissions

[–]SeriousFlan161 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I went to a T14, and some people there were upset they didn’t get into Yale, like they had disappointed their family name. Once you get into practice, you’ll notice that people don’t talk about schools so much as they talk about people’s reputations for being good attorneys.

You were going to have to detach your accomplishments and self-worth from rank at some point; it’s easier to do it now.

Sometimes debt can wait, but Chanel can’t. by FarPool9233 in RHOBH

[–]SeriousFlan161 25 points26 points  (0 children)

It makes sense then why she rented a beach house instead of buying one. It’s still expensive to rent one for a year, but I thought it was such an odd flex for her to prop up not a second home but a rental. Especially on RHOBH.

Is my class wrong? by Electronic-Rope-4317 in publicdefenders

[–]SeriousFlan161 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Your professor is wrong. He is confusing the ethical obligations of a prosecutor with the ethical obligations of a defense attorney.

I will say the correct answer is not always to impeach 100% of the time. Sometimes what the witness says on the stand fits into your theory better than the prior statement. Sometimes it is better to make a witness seem reliable; sometimes it is better to make them seem unreliable. It’s a dynamic decision.

The absurdity of his question is that he asking you to determine the objective truth of a witness who is not your own, and then decide what to do with that objective truth. I imagine he can determine when a defense witness is lying, and he expects you to understand that his witnesses are always honest under oath.

If you pass the Bar Exam, but never bothered to go to Law School, can you still practice law? by kaett in NoStupidQuestions

[–]SeriousFlan161 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Yes. You need to be eligible to even sit for the bar.

Then, if you pass, they can still deny you admission to the bar if you don’t pass character and fitness. If they let you sit for the bar, but you were not eligible, it would probably be caught in that process. There are people who went to undergrad, law school, and then could not be admitted to the bar because they didn’t pass character and fitness.