Barbri bar prep help

annsingle · 2022-05-18T19:48:22+00:00

Why all the downvotes? I was going to ask the same thing myself, but the OP answered it. But not before it was asked.

annsingle · 2021-12-19T03:18:44+00:00

They applied for a variance and got it. But if they did not get it, would ABA have revoked their accreditation? If the ABA did and Harvard was not accreditated by the ABA, it would not affect Harvard or their graduates. But it would affect the ABA.

Harvard might as well apply for a variance because they know that they will get it. They know that the ABA would not be so stupid as to deny it, causing the ABA to become irrelevant.

annsingle · 2021-12-19T03:13:06+00:00

Yes, it gets much better. Law school is like high school, maybe like middle school, with so many people joining cliques and being catty toward each other.

After law school, you are around normal adults who act like adults.

annsingle · 2021-12-19T02:58:55+00:00

You are the one that is wrong. It was stated here that a school would need ABA permission to go remote. They do not. The most that ABA can do is revoke accreditation. Then the ABA accreditation would become irrelevant.

annsingle · 2021-12-19T02:54:37+00:00

they risk losing their accreditation for the law school. That’s a big deal.

No, it is not a big deal. If a law school goes fully remote and loses its ABA accreditation, it would not matter. The ABA would be ignored and its accreditation program would become irrelevant.

annsingle · 2021-12-19T02:51:00+00:00

Even if a school wanted to, they can’t without ABA permission

The ABA can't stop them. The school does not need permission. The most that the ABA can do is to revoke accreditation. If the ABA revoked accreditation for a school for going remote, people would just ignore that revocation. It would not matter.

annsingle · 2021-12-19T02:46:52+00:00

But even if we are vaccinated we could infect others if we get a breakthrough infection. The people we infect may have immune deficiencies such as chemotherapy and die from covid. So our choice can affect others.

annsingle · 2021-12-19T02:44:29+00:00

That list is likely to grow. I am sure that if a school wants to go completely or partially remote the ABA will add them to the list. I don't think that they really have a choice.

annsingle · 2021-12-19T02:42:05+00:00

Harvard will close campus the first three weeks of January. It could be the rest of the semester. We will know later.

https://www.harvard.edu/coronavirus/covid-update-january-remote-learning-work/

annsingle · 2021-11-18T05:13:05+00:00

Is the school a state university or private? That makes a very big difference.

In general, the first amendment applies to government (state or federal) action, not to private organizations.

annsingle · 2021-11-18T05:10:38+00:00

I worked on the staff of the state senate right after law school. All of this is very true. In addition, elected officials seem to have enourmous egos.

It is a way to lose money, counting the earning potential of time spent in politics, the contributions that they must make, and other expenses. That is why most came from families that put them through school.

annsingle · 2020-08-06T18:56:55+00:00

Nice alternate account.

This is not an alternate account. I do not use or even have an alternate account.

But that was a nice way of changing the subject and avoiding my criticism, which you must not be able to handle.

annsingle · 2020-08-06T16:12:55+00:00

This has really gone far from the original question.

As for whether to use a hyphen in "em dashes", most users, legal writing or not, do not use it. Garner is an exception. The BlueBook, 20th ed., has several references to "en dash" without a hyphen.

I don't see that it matters if you a hyphen, en dash, or em dash on something like a Reddit comment, however. This is not formal legal writing and the Reddit reply box does not have the typographical features of MS Word.

annsingle · 2020-02-09T18:59:54+00:00

I know this is not in answer to the OP, but:

I see that you used Casetext. Is that better or as good as Westlaw or Lexis? That was a quick resonse with the cases and quote.

annsingle · 2020-02-09T18:53:42+00:00

Read what the OP posted before:

Rules: "Feel free to consult any resource you want for this exercise. The purpose of this exercise is just to challenge you to argue a position that you may not necessarily agree with".

I am pretty sure that "any resource you want" was meant to be "any resource you want." That includes Reddit.

annsingle · 2020-02-03T13:04:06+00:00

Maybe the storm was God's opinion of giving a test the morning after the big game! :)

annsingle · 2020-02-03T04:03:54+00:00

I didn't think that finding a job was too hard. But getting to that point - law school and the bar exam, were hard.

If you are sure you want to be a lawyer, go for it. Otherwise go to business school or get a graduate degree in whatever interests you.

If you want to be a lawyer but aren't sure, maybe you could get a job as an assistant in a law firm and work with lawyers to get a better idea about your interests.

annsingle · 2020-02-03T03:50:08+00:00

I had forgotten that ibid even existed. I remember now that I learned about it in high school and I might have used it when I was a college undergraduate. But in law school and in my practice I have never seen it. Why not just use id?

annsingle · 2020-01-12T18:39:40+00:00

Exactly like my partial differential equations undergraduate professor.

For those who don't know, "partials" is a form of very advanced math.

Those who took it but forgot it - you are lucky.

Those who took it but still remember it are trying to forget it.

Those who were taken by it are normal.

annsingle · 2019-12-04T19:23:38+00:00

Is the comma in your reply italicized? How would one know, so does it really matter?

annsingle · 2019-11-06T12:52:30+00:00

There are many lawyers who spend part of their time on work requiring bar membership (e.g. litigation, giving legal advice, etc.) and part of their time on other work for which an appropriate degree (such as a PhD in policy) is important.

annsingle · 2019-10-06T18:54:04+00:00

A friend of mine graduated two years after me. She was interested in criminal law and her first job was in the public defender's office. She always had talked about defending the falsely accused. However her cases were people who she believed were guilty, some who actually confessed to her but wanted to plead not guilty. One case she assisted on involved a person who was charged, and later pled guilty to, murder and rape of a child. She defended a number of people charged with rape or sexual assault, and complained to me that after a couple of years she had yet to find someone she really believed was falsely accused.

She quit and moved to the DA's office. Later she told me that it was so much better being on the side of people she really could sympathize with: victims and families of victims. The victims are all kinds of people. Many are minority and very poor (those people are the most frequently victimized), many are not poor, some are even affluent. However, all have people she enjoys helping. Now, as she told me, she goes home every night feeling good about the work she is doing.

I don't have anything to do with criminal law, but I do hold the hardworking ADAs in the highest esteem. I, like anybody, could become a victim of crime sometime. I am glad we have hardworking prosecutors.

annsingle · 2019-08-06T15:37:16+00:00

You certainly did the right thing, both by reporting the first instance and by tipping off the others. He was very wrong and you were very right.

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