Archive for the ‘Law School’ Category
Friday, June 20th, 2008
My original plan was to work at my internship through the end of July. I've changed my mind and hope to wrap up my internship in the next two weeks. I just have to put in a total of a 120 hours to get full school credit for the internship. ...
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Saturday, May 31st, 2008
I've gotten all but one of my grades for the spring semester. Anything better than an F in my last class will be good enough for me to continue in law school and get off academic probation. I'm sure I did better than an F in my remaining class so ...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
I started my internship with the Public Defender's office yesterday. It looks like I'm going to be doing quite a variety of things. I'm only going to be working half days eventually but right now I'm working longer than that while I'm getting familiar with everything. Since this office is ...
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
I've got another year of law school completed. Now the waiting for the grades begins. I thought it took a long time to get my grades at my first law school but here it takes even longer. I don't know why it takes so long. I had one class that ...
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Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
I'm not actually quitting law school but the idea is somewhat tempting. I can't say I'm enjoying law school at all. At this point I feel like I have too much time and money invested to quit though. I'm hoping that once I do some actual legal work this summer ...
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Saturday, April 26th, 2008
I have completed classes for the semester and am now in the final exam period. I might miss a couple days posting over the next couple weeks because I need to make preparing for my exams a priority. In law school 100% of your grade is based on your final ...
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Saturday, April 19th, 2008
I recently read that my former law school,Washington and Lee, is revising their third year law school curriculum and replacing all academic classes with experiential learning. All of the third year students will be required to get a Virginia practice certificate and participate in at least one real client experience ...
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
Today I was offered an internship working for the Missouri State Public Defender's office which I accepted. I'm looking forward to putting some of the knowledge I've acquired in 5 semesters of law school to practical use. Since I'm Missouri Rule 13 eligible I should get the opportunity to appear ...
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Sunday, April 6th, 2008
When discussing the College Cost Reduction and Access Act I discussed the income-based repayment plan in conjunction with the public service loan forgiveness program. The coupling of the two is a great deal but I wanted to see how the income-based repayment plan would work when used alone.
The income-based repayment ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
The College Cost Reduction and Access Act offers a loan forgiveness program for those who work in public service. As I am strongly considering a career in public service when I graduate from law school I decided to do more research on the loan forgiveness program.
The details of how the ...
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