Sentences with phrase «thing about law school»

One thing about law school that often goes unmentioned is that it's not just a education, it's an indoctrination.

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To Ken Margo: I am totally agree with you about this evil thing going around the earth... this evil minded people is there everywhere regardless of faith... that was not what i was trying to say... my point was to be able to recognize the One True God who is Unseen and who has no partners as He is not in need of any partners but we the creation is in need of Him... thats all... I wish I could do something to stop all these taking place around the earth... I think we human fear the fed laws more than we fear the laws of our Creator, for example not to associate any partner with Him, taking the life of others, drug dealing, human trafficking, believing in hereafter and so on... I remember a story that I was talking with one of my friends... I was telling him look we all obey the law of the land so much like for example when we drive and no one moves even an inch when there is a school bus stop to pick / drop kids as it is a fed laws but when it comes to the laws of our Creator, we don't care... like having physical relationship outside of marriage and many more... then he said something nice... he said that its because we see the consequence of breaking the law of the land but we do not see the punishment of hereafter even though it is mentioned very details in Quran, it even gives pictures of hereafter....

«I think the thing that gets people upset about losing net neutrality is that there's a distrust of the providers» — the companies that offer internet service, said Mark Bartholomew, an associate professor and communications law expert at the University at Buffalo School of Llaw expert at the University at Buffalo School of LawLaw.

The most remarkable thing about the Ph.D. in Education is open access to faculty from all Harvard graduate and professional schools, including the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Harvard Kennedy School, the Harvard Law School, Harvard Medical School, and the Harvard School of Public Health.

The WRONG way to think about federal policy in education is to identify the myriad problems plaguing our schools, and then dream up federal solutions, as if Congress could pass a law and magically things would change in the real world (and without any unintended consequences).

«One of the things that we have found out through our research is that there's only about seven schools [in Clark County] where a $ 5,100 voucher will actually cover full tuition,» said Sylvia Lazos, a professor at UNLV's Boyd School of Law and policy director of the group Educate Nevada Now!

In the sex class we have to take by school law where they showed condoms and scared us about AIDS, they said, «Sexuality is the most confusing thing about being a teenager.»

Here are a few more surprising things to know about Strout: • She once sold mattresses Early on, Strout toyed with the idea of acting but ended up in law school, only to drop out for a year.

And here's the thing: If Ana had been a student at my school and had come to my office and talked about her relationship with Christian (which is the kind of thing that happens all the time), I would be mandated, under federal law, to report that to the campus police, because she'd be telling me about her stalker.

Personal savings If you are thinking about using your savings to help pay for law school, there are a few things you should consider.

One popular rule of thumb comes from Elizabeth Warren who knows a thing or two about balancing the household books; she's a bankruptcy expert and the Harvard Law School professor who led the creation of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

No matter what your motivation, there are some things you should know about attending law school right now.

Much of the mind game, however, involves allowing yourself to think about things outside of law school.

The best thing about the crowdsourced rankings is that it gives law school applicants a second opinion about their prospective schools.

It's no secret that there are a lot of things you don't learn about running a law practice in law school.

I can't say I think a lot about the University of Pittsburgh law school, but when I do, Jurist is the first thing that comes to mind.

By the time we get out of law school, we've learned a thing or two about how to find a job, but virtually nothing about how to leave one, observes Carolyn Elefant, my colleague here at Legal Blog Watch, in an article just published by The Complete Lawyer.

No, the title of this post is not a reference to the still - raging debate about whether going to law school is or is not the stupidest thing a kid could possibly do if he's looking for, you know, a job upon graduation.

What it was ultimately about though is that we don't need a new law school, doing everything the old way of doing things, and adding exclusionary criteria that runs contrary to human rights principles.

And I suppose one of the most useful things a mentor can do, especially if you're engaging with somebody about to leave law school or right out of law school, is help them ease that transition by offering yourself, your knowledge, and your skills, and your advice on how to get your head out of the books and into the practice.

In the South Carolina case, the attorney blatantly lied about some things, such as when he graduated law school and the extent of his federal court practice.

One thing for sure about this year's commencement speaker at Boston College Law School: He is sure to be far less controversial than last year's.

Sam Glover: I guess while I have a law professor on, I have a question for you about that because there are lots of law schools that are currently really trying to focus on practice ready skills or technology and things like that.

Lawyers are concerned about law school debt and the number of young lawyers who can't find meaningful employment, but they also have some very important things that are important to them regarding running their practices.

One of the things I think about is when you... Lots of people want to know if they go right out of law school are they going to be able to start their own firm, and it's really hard to learn how to run a business and practice law at the same time.

Over at the In - House Counsel blog, Melanie Hatton writes about a recent interview she gave on Twitter (yes, such a thing exists) in which she was asked what advice she had for people just now going off to law school.

Her focus on whether there is a mandatory subject in which the topic is addressed can not capture the many things that law schools do, in curricular and in extracurricular ways, to help students learn about and respond to domestic violence and violence against women.

I'd be more interested in learning the law school equivalent of all the things I would seek to find out about established lateral recruits.

One last thing about LRW that one of my colleagues pointed out — at least in law school — its the course you should take because it is about all the other law courses you could not take at law school.

And a report published in 1997, by Professors of Zemans adn Monahan, also of Osgoode Hall Law School, said the same thing about LSUC — remove it because it won't innovate for the best future for LAO.

For most law students and recent graduates this third thing has fallen off the map at a time when everyone from the Chief Justices of the Supreme Court to the Bar Associations, law schools and LSUC are talking about increasing access to justice.

Judge Facciola talks about how we can integrate e-discovery training into law schools, among other things.

And the best thing about LWOW is that it enables law school students and business school students to work together and learn from each other.

In law school, every lawyer is taught that the Honorable Learned Hand was a very smart, very important judge who wrote very smart things about... well, like 99 % of lawyers, I haven't the foggiest idea of what Learned Hand was actually famous for.

For public interest lawyers like Mirenda and myself who went to law school, after it cost about $ 8 million, things can get a little disheartening.

One of the great things about the University of Miami School of Law was its connections to the community.

«When we come out of law school... we lack a lot of fundamentals about basic business awareness — accounting, cash flow, financial literacy — all these things that are critical, obviously, to running a small or solo practice,» he says.

One of the puzzling things I have noticed about new lawyers is that they tend to come out of law school thinking like 50 year old lawyers — and not like the digital natives they are.

Every year at the UVic Faculty of Law we have our 1st year students fill out a survey, which among other things, asks them about the technology that they are bringing with them into law schooLaw we have our 1st year students fill out a survey, which among other things, asks them about the technology that they are bringing with them into law schoolaw schools.

But when law firms see foreign degrees that aren't from world prestigious schools they see one of two things; someone who couldn't get into law school in Canada and went abroad, or someone who has been practicing abroad and likely doesn't know much about Canadian law.

And the worst thing you can do, I think, is to focus on how much money you can make which is a tendency when you graduate from college and law school; today you have so much debt that you immediately start thinking about how to pay it off and making the most money in the fastest way.

One of my jobs at Osgoode Hall Law School over the past few years has been to mediate between the IT people and the faculty, and so I know a little about this vexed meeting of minds, but I'd imagined that somehow things would be better worked out in the professional context of practice than in the sometimes quirky academic world.

From Lemons to Lemonade (which I didn't purchase, by the way — this was a free review copy) starts by talking in detail about the «untapped legal job market,» which includes things such as JD - preferred jobs, «hidden» jobs that aren't necessarily advertised but can be uncovered with some due diligence, and less commonly considered options, including small town lawyering and teaching outside of law schools.

There are so many things lawyers aren't taught in law school about managing a law firm.

I mean, I was speaking with some law students at California Western earlier this week, and I talked to them about my first experience with my first job out of law school and it was, I didn't necessarily think I would be doing what I ended up doing, but I learned a lot, and it was a great fit, and I ended up doing really well, and I am now at a different place, but it was with the support of the people that initially gave me my first shot that allowed me to move on and do different things.

The article said some nice things about what we're doing here at the University of Calgary and about some of the neat things taking place at other Canadian law schools.

When I was in law school, one of the first things I learned wasn't about the law; it was about the importance of my professional reputation.

One of the things that really sucks about taking an online traffic school in Miami is the «course timer» that is required by law for all Miami, Florida online traffic schools.

This kind of fear is brought about because of the fatality of the accidents that could happen between a large truck and saloon or SUV «s.However, the laws on driving are so clear and if you join the colonial driving school, you will know how to share the road with large trucks and also the other important things that will help you remain cautions while sharing the highway with these motor carriers.

«For people who are interested in a non-traditional law career, take law school as an opportunity to learn some skills and change the way you think about things so that you can get what you want out of it,» suggested Hoffman.