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  1L Dispatch: The Oral Fixation

  04.05.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Moot Court is now over, yet another obstacle of my first year of law school that I have sort of blindly skipped my way past. It’s a required class so I had no choice in the matter. Moot court has two aspects, a written brief and an oral argument. The Powers That Be grade it [...]

• San Francisco, law school

  1L Dispatch: The People That I Meet

  02.12.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  The charter for my law school requires that the college be within a certain proximity to the courts. This gives us access to the center of legal practice here in San Francisco, but it also means that the school is centered in the Tenderloin - as wretched a hive of scum and villainy as you’re [...]

• law school, travel

  1L Dispatch: What I Did on my Winter Vacation

  01.14.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I think that if I ever actually do get a real job, I’m going to have a very hard time getting used to not getting damn near a month off every Winter. I’m not sure why college (and law) students need so much time between the Fall and Spring semesters, but I do know that [...]

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  1L Dispatch: It’s over… For Now

  12.14.07 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  I turned in my Civil Procedure exam at 11:07 this morning, and with that final keystroke my first exam period came to an end. It’s been kind of a rough patch, but I soldiered on. The hardest part about the whole thing wasn’t the re-reading of old cases, or the outlining of the courses, or [...]

• law school

  1L Dispatch: Not Shopping, Not Playing Video Games.

  11.23.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  As we all know, today is the biggest day of the year for American retailers. The stores opened at an ungodly time this morning and they are laying out heavy discounts to draw in those willing to sweat their way through the madness for a good deal. I am abstaining from the whole grisly ordeal [...]

• law school

  1L Dispatch: It’s That Time, The Time Usually Referred to as Crunch

  11.15.07 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  You can feel it crackling in the air in every class. It’s almost time for exams, and the student body is visibly stressed. There are still two weeks before the ordeals begin, but that is not as much time as it might seem. The pressure has already driven at least one Hastings student to the [...]