Sentences with phrase «who got into law schools»

In round two of the mailbag episodes, Elie Mystal and Joe Patrice gave even more advice to people who got into law schools and are trying to figure out the best course of action.

Not exact matches

In fact there's nothing particularly objective about who gets into the best clubs — whether that means the best schools, law firms or corporate positions.

He writes about the sixteen days he spent sailing the Pacific Ocean with five buddies and a crate of canned meat, the time he took his kids on a world tour to eat ice cream with heads of state, his stubbornness in getting into law school by sitting on a bench outside the dean's office for seven days until they finally let him enroll, his «office» at Tom Sawyer Island at Disneyland, the flowers he sent to the elderly woman who nearly killed him running a stop sign, the work he's done to free Ugandan children from prison.

It's the law and people like Mr. Yearwood (who in my opinion is an arrogant and insensitive man) does not care if a concerned mother like Mrs. Kimberly Puccia (who was only waiting to make sure that her child got into the dance school building safely) receive's a ticket by one of his Traffic Agent's under his command.

I was never comfortable with the unknown and more than worrying about whether or not I'd get into a good law school or become a successful attorney, I felt monumental confusion over what I really wanted to do, who I really wanted to be.

She plays Elle Woods, the seemingly airheaded California girl who gets dumped by her aristocratic boyfriend, enrols into Harvard Law School to impress him and ends up a high - flying legal eagle in her own right.

Under a forty - year - old state law, the scores that students earn on it — and only those scores — determine who gets into, and rejected by, these eight schools, including the three old and famous ones: Stuyvesant, Bronx Science, and Brooklyn Tech.

The same Jonathan Sacker who set up ConnCAN's unknown sister organization called the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Advocacy Inc. which poured more than half a million dollars into legislative lobbying over the past few years helping to get Achievement First more money and a special law exempting charter schools from having to have all their teachers certified.

Watson learned from a neighbor's son - in - law, who was a nurse, that a nursing degree would provide a stepping stone to get into veterinary school.

Are the people recruited those who could not get into Canadian law schools, or those who don't want to wait to have a first degree, or perfectly competent folks for whom the Canadian schools just did not have room?

I am a history major, and in every one of my classes there were at least three people who were taking history because they needed a bachelors to get into law school.

I met other students, who are planning on attending law school, and who have gotten into law school.

I am constantly hearing stories from alumni who were inspired by him, who thank him for getting them into law school and starting their careers.»

«From a journalistic perspective, we want someone who'll present their own work, who will have an impact, and bring students into the process, who'll learn there are different skill sets (related to journalism) that we don't necessarily get access to» at law schools.

One question the writers of «legal eduction» studies might ask — perhaps they have, I've never bothered to look — is «what does it tell us about law as a discipline that so many people who claim they're no good at math, sciences, philosophy, logic etc. (and whose transcripts show it), manage to get into law school and then do reasonably well»?

It seems odd that those students who worked their butts off to graduate in the top half of their class or to get into a good law school (i.e., not Bond university) should have to subsidize the C - students or the trust fund brats who went to Bond because daddy wanted them to be a lawyer.

This month's cover story, and really a lot of the talk of the town here in Ontario, centres on the shortage of articling spaces for all the lawyers in training graduating from law school and wanting to get into the practice of law — or at least who want to get called to the bar so they can tick it off their list of accomplishments and then go on to run a successful enterprise using their law - school smarts!

«Most people I know who get out of law school get into the system where there are required billable hours and they lose their purpose.

Joe Patrice and Elie Mystal read letters from prospective law students who are trying to figure out where to go based on price, quality, and location of the schools they got into.

We're already deciding between how well a Canadian Law School candidate performed compared to others, so why would someone who couldn't even get into that competition really rank?

Like it or not, being able to get into a Canadian law school is a metric to use to decide who might be a top candidate.

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.

One English municipality used its spy powers under the anti-terrorism law to prosecute a couple who claimed to live in a school district other than where they did live, in order to get their kid into a better school.

«This gap between being eligible for legal aid and being able to afford counsel that she fell into meant she wasn't able to get the legal assistance that could have prevented the crime from happening,» said Lorne Sossin, dean of Osgoode Hall Law School, addressing members of the legal community who came together last week in Toronto to launch the second year of Flip Your Wig For Justice, the pledge - based fundraiser, which aims to raise awareness as well as money for access to justice programs in Ontario.

«When you first go to law school, there is a lot of this competitiveness, especially when you think about people trying to get into the big law firms, and no one is really helping,» says law grad Philippe Guiton who now works for Barrett Tax Law in Ottalaw school, there is a lot of this competitiveness, especially when you think about people trying to get into the big law firms, and no one is really helping,» says law grad Philippe Guiton who now works for Barrett Tax Law in Ottalaw firms, and no one is really helping,» says law grad Philippe Guiton who now works for Barrett Tax Law in Ottalaw grad Philippe Guiton who now works for Barrett Tax Law in OttaLaw in Ottawa.

Having a kid who is getting into trouble at school or with the law, who is addicted to drugs or alcohol, or who is suffering from a serious mental illness can be extremely isolating.