If you are in law school and especially
first year law school, the work has been done before, by experts in the field, don't try to reinvent the wheel.
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Fourth, the decision is a good example of statutory interpretation and eminently suitable for a first
year law school course on legislation.
This degree could serve as a prerequisite for law school, covering such skills as legal research, legal writing, the US and comparative legal systems, and perhaps even the entire first
year law school curriculum.
Bombarded with questions about onuses, methods of prosecution, criminal procedure, and many other inquiries about the legal system as a whole, I had to pause and remind myself that these were Grade 6 students and not a first -
year law school class.
The reports didn't include her original failed attempt at first -
year law school before she gained readmission in 2002.
Over at Crime & Federalism, Michael Cernovich agrees that The VC's Orin Kerr has done a public service with his post, «A Few Thoughts on First -
Year Law School Grades.»
The phrase from first
year law school swam into her head: a life estate pur autre vie — which, translated from the Norman law French, meant the right to use and enjoy property for so long as another, identified person continued to live.
Hosted by a charmingly egotistic 1L named Super Cool, the Law Academy brings a refreshingly clever blend of humor, music and storytelling into explanations of first
year law school doctrinal topics.
The weeding out should be done in first
year law school so that those who are not, as reasonably as can be determined in an imperfect world, suited to law practice, so that they do not go on to incur mountains of debt only to be told at the last moment that they will not be called.
It smacks of defensiveness or of some unconscious attempt at payback for first
year law school LRW.
Those of you who still have your first
year law school notes (if you started law school in 1997 through June 2012) might look at them.
You should see the look of horror on the faces of
third year law school students when they're told «Besides knowing the law, you also need to know about sales, pricing and customer service as part of going into practice.»
In Friday's episode of Law Librarian Conversations podcast, we talked with two social media - savvy third
year law school students to get a dose of reality on what they think about social networking, online communication, legal research and practice skills.
To many students, legal research is sort of the broccoli and spinach of first -
year law school courses, and research instruction tutorials come at a time when they're beginning to feel the weight of their workload.
Gender and domestic violence are such complex issues that training in the competencies to deal with them must occur in various ways, curricular and extracurricular, mandatory and optional, throughout the three
year law school curriculum.
First year law school students are invited to have their resumes reviewed by hiring staff professionals at Foley Hoag.
(Those of us still able to remember at least something they were told in first
year law school may remember being told that that's a good, general, rule.)
If this format sounds awfully familiar, it's because it's the same format we've all been using since first -
year law school.
My preference would be to reinstitute the bar admission course run by the Law Society as before in place of third
year law school and before articling; but that was already proposed and soundly rejected.
Back in 1974, when we had the six - month bar admission course, Darry Miller and I may made a submission to the Benchers suggesting that the bar admission course be made part of second and third
year law school.
Obama supports the two
year law school.
The fairest time to cull them is in first -
year law school.
We all learned in first -
year law school that the adversarial system, by which two advocates zealously advance arguments in favour of their respective parties before an impartial trier of fact, is the best way to arrive at the truth of a matter, and thereby at justice.
It is what underpinned the peace treaty between the Law Society of Upper Canada and the Ontario universities that made ubiquitous the model that we know today of a three -
year law school - based degree followed by a year's apprenticeship that we call articling.
Let's then extend the reasoning to companies themselves who are nothing if not legal persons, as taught in first -
year law school.
Lawyers are trained from first -
year law school to distance themselves from their work: «objective» analysis is championed, while students are warned against getting too emotionally involved with their clients» plights.
First
year law school students are invited to have their resumes reviewed by hiring staff professionals...
Their training in legal research, though careful in first
year law school, is typically not pursued in later years — many will take summer refresher courses only just prior to starting articles with their law firms.