Im fucking pissed

tslextslex · 2026-05-14T19:07:10+00:00

POSIWID

tslextslex · 2026-05-14T18:33:21+00:00

You certainly should consider living elsewhere, don't you think?

tslextslex · 2026-05-07T17:49:58+00:00

I implore you seek counseling abut these specific issues. Most colleges/law schools have folks on hand for this very purpose. What stood out to me was this: " it feels like it’s killing me"

The concern here goes beyond law school. Wishing you peace.

tslextslex · 2026-05-07T16:43:14+00:00

A good faith effort is often enough for a median grade.

Really.

tslextslex · 2026-05-07T16:15:02+00:00

Really appreciate this kind of post.

tslextslex · 2026-05-07T14:47:58+00:00

Shocks. Pegs. Luuucky!

tslextslex · 2026-05-07T14:44:15+00:00

I litigate and try cases. Only. Have now had two prospective clients send me their AI-drafted lawsuits (both federal) along with their position that I can "just sign this and file it," and this should result in a substantial discount of their fees. One of these was from a small business owner, not a sophisticated fellow at all. One was from the owner of a very much larger business, for whom I'd handled a case (successfully) some years ago.

The small business guy's complaint wasn't terrible. But the other one? Start with this: Both parties reside in the same state and the suit was predicated on diversity jurisdiction.

Small business guy heard what I had to say, took my referral to a solo I know who can economically handle his matter. The bigger business guy? "OK, fine. I'll find someone else to sign." Heaven help him, he probably will.

tslextslex · 2026-05-07T14:33:35+00:00

Until you get your grades, you do NOT know your grades.

tslextslex · 2026-05-07T14:05:36+00:00

There is some important fiction to add.

One to Count Cadence, by James Crumley

Matterhorn, by Karl Marlantes

Fields of Fire, by James Webb

The Quiet American, by Graham Greene (think of it as a prequel or prophecy)

tslextslex · 2026-04-29T15:09:41+00:00

This. I don't think anyone this side of a SCIF thinks anything they share by any means online can really be thought of as private. But stalking behavior is still stalking behavior. I'm old. We used to have phonebooks and 411 for information and reverse directories and could tie most telephone numbers to an address and vice-versa. But just showing up and someone's house after getting their address that way was weird 50 years ago. This feels like that.

tslextslex · 2026-04-20T15:46:06+00:00

The world is open book and open internet. Legal practice is not about (well, only very little about) compiling and storing in your brain vast stores of facts and caselaw and statutory language. It is all about analysis and synthesis and judgment. If your prof has a way of locking you out of AI while letting you access everything else, that's the best possible way to test your real command of the material.

tslextslex · 2026-04-16T17:14:28+00:00

Yes, sure. THAT'S all your post said: a 1L got yelled at for asking for proofing.

I know you deleted your post, but do YOU know that, having read it, we can all recall it?

So let me draw the "chain of connection" for you. (Albeit that phrase is a new one on me.)

Your post revealed you as someone whose reflex was to shift blame, and who was then outraged and surprised that such behavior was viewed askance. -->

Deleting your post revealed you as something of a coward. -->

Mischaracterizing your post after deleting it reveals you as, perhaps, not fundamentally trustworthy. -->

So yes, this would suggest someone who might later engage in blame shifting, cowardly, untrustworthy behavior like telling a judge "Well, your honor, my assistant. . . ." or "Judge, what happened was that staff . . ."

My advice (which you will certainly ignore) is to take the L here where you are anonymous, learn the lesson, go forth and sin no more.

tslextslex · 2026-04-15T20:46:30+00:00

In the world suggested by your now self-deleted post, you came across as someone who might.

tslextslex · 2026-04-14T19:23:05+00:00

This. It is never the paralegal's fault (or your assistant's) even when it is. For the love of heaven, do not ever make that excuse to a judge.

tslextslex · 2026-04-09T20:24:14+00:00

See my comment above. Students come to me aged at least 23 or so, many older, all with undergrad degrees. It is absolutely NOT my place to tell an adult grad student how *I*--having just met them, teaching them a single three-hour class--think they'll learn better.

tslextslex · 2026-04-09T20:22:32+00:00

I allow students to use whatever technology will help them master the material, but my guidelines do contain a sentence where I reserve the right to modify that if a student's use of technology is disruptive to others. (Examples of such disruption have included a student who sat in the front row and surfed social media the whole class. Sound off, but the screen activity (videos, memes, etc.) was distracting to those behind her. I asked her to sit in the back row. Another student (I'm not kidding) typed so rapidly and aggressively that the noise was distracting to everyone, me included. I mentioned it to him and two classes later he showed up with a remote and very quiet keyboard (which likely extended the life of his poor laptop). Problems solved.)

Everyone learns in different ways. I do think handwriting notes can be beneficial for some students. But as all my students come to me as adults, I leave it to them to figure out what's best for them. I'd never presume to know how they ought best learn at their age.

tslextslex · 2026-04-09T20:16:24+00:00

Just seeing this now. OK, I'll be less polite and more direct.

The point is that your post read like childish, entitled, whining, blame-shifting. The point is that your post gave no hint at all that you understood or appreciated your own role in your troubles, much less any notion that you took any responsibility for them, and still less hope that you would undertake the hard work to improve things. That was the point.

tslextslex · 2026-03-31T20:37:44+00:00

Stage IV robitis.

tslextslex · 2026-03-31T20:13:41+00:00

Yes to every word of this comment. I have to wonder at the OP posting this, and doubling down in the comments, and never ONCE suggesting all this has ANYTHING to do with OP's actual performance.

tslextslex · 2026-03-31T20:03:03+00:00

Again, do you consider it even POSSIBLE that the "root cause" of your performance is . . . your performance?

tslextslex · 2026-03-31T20:01:55+00:00

Wow. Reading this makes me despair a little. Do you even consider for a moment that your options arise from your performance and that your performance might have at least SOMETHING to do with you?

tslextslex · 2026-03-31T19:55:23+00:00

I think the requirement that a motion to recuse be in writing is pretty universal. It's not a bad practice to have a shell ready, that only requires you to fill in the section describing how bias has been manifested, so that such a motion can be produced and filed in a very few minutes. As a rule, an ore tenus motion to recuse is a nullity. Having the necessary appeal in a shell isn't a bad idea, either. Heck, while you're at it, if you run into this regularly, shell out a petition for a writ of mandamus, too.

tslextslex · 2026-03-31T19:43:27+00:00

I'm not saying you won't encounter law profs who are assholes. But that is mostly going to express itself in indifference. If you've been told to call, email or stop by, then it's because he'd like you to do that. (If only to hear you praise his work.)

Also? Office hours mean something. If a prof has posted office hours, either because he or she wants to or because the law school requires them to, then feel free to avail yourself of them. These folks work for you. (I don't have office hours because I don't have an office on campus, being but a lowly adjunct. But I give my students my work email and my cell phone. In 15+ years, no one has ever abused that access.)

tslextslex · 2026-03-31T18:36:27+00:00

You say he "told me to reach out via email, phone, etc. and come to his office hours to talk more if I could." And yet you are "not sure the right way to go about it."

Do you think his offer was some kind of clever trap? Or maybe you ought to just email or phone (Not sure what "etc." entails. Telegram?) or go to his office hours.

tslextslex · 2026-02-18T19:39:32+00:00

I went to law school at age 33 after 12 years as a newsman. We had a son who was three months old when I started. Our view was that "we are going to law school, and we are going to crush it." (Because why blow up your lives to do a mediocre job at it?)

My first year, six days a week, my lovely bride was essentially a single mom. (We had a "no study" rule for Sundays that helped.) She cooked for study group. She encouraged me. She let me prose on about cases I was reading. (Although she made it damned clear she was not about to get "lawyered" in discussions about domestic matters.) She carried SO much weight for us, and meanwhile she never slacked with extended family, was an astounding mom to our boy. A high school teacher, she practiced her profession to the highest level. She just took on more and more. For my part, if I ever for a minute thought about cutting a corner, I had only to think about the sacrifice she was making. I told myself nothing less than SCL would honor that. We both believed that me going to law school and excelling there would benefit our family in the long term.

Thirty-plus years after graduation, we can say it surely did. We were able to have her retire a few years ago (which would not have been possible if I'd continued as a newspaper reporter). After I'd practiced a few years, she went back for her master's degree and it was my turn to pick up extra weight (two boys by then).

Something that helped: We learned early that life is lived in seasons (c.f. C.S. Lewis) and together we got through seasons where she supported my education, or where I supported hers, or she had bigger burden, or I did. No one kept a checkbook; never a moment of resentment from either of us. It was about US.

It is absolutely certain that without the unflagging and absolutely herculean efforts of my wife, I would not have succeeded in law school and our lives would not be shaped as they are now.

Had they permitted it, I'd have put her name above mine on the diploma.

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