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Summer Clerkin’: Typos and Tacos
07.13.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

After the aberration of last summer’s jaunt to Australia I find myself adapting to the perverted inversion of the natural order that is the law student’s summer vacation. You mean that in my time off from the most intellectually demanding course of study I have ever seen, I have to go out and work all [...]
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Summer Clerkin’: Early Days
06.08.09 | Permalink | Comment?

It wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be. Of course, I thought it was going to be absolutely horrific so any first day that end with me curled up in a ball under my desk weeping softly to myself as my inbox filled up with research assignments and my phone ringing [...]
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Summer Clerkin’: Getting Here
06.01.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

I have a summer job. I am a law clerk. I consider myself lucky as hell to have carved a spot in the working world during some brutal economic times. Law school is a giant arena and law students are intellectual gladiators. We constantly jockey for position, struggling against each other for grades, class rank, [...]