GL deuces!!

GL with the results!

I'm currently taking a required professional responsibility course (I think all schools have this?) that is structured to prepare us for taking the November MPRE. Such overkill. The rules are fairly self-explanatory and simply worded. 3 hours per week of class is useless.

We made it, fam. Passed the Bar. What a relief. Time to celebrate

congrats!

Congrats man! That's a huge relief, I'm sure you're drunk celebrating already.

PR is the actual worst class I took in law school.

Congrats deuces, hope you're still in the middle of a well-deserved celebration.

watch the barbri video if you can. The dude points out some of the exact questions/tricks they will try on you.

I still remember about ambassadorships and how they are permanent positions and you cant still be on the firms name. and other random **** like that.

i watched the video took some notes and then scored enough to practice anywhere.

That video was helpful for sure.

Congratulations counselor!

Thanks everyone!

Huge relief to be done with law school. Shouldn't be any issues with my c/f either, so I can hit the ground running soon. However, I do feel bad for my classmates who didn't pass. Everybody posting all this great stuff on fb about passing and like, everyone knows who the few who didn't pass are.

Social media amplifies everything I suppose

congrats dude.

Grats man.

I actually really enjoyed my professional responsibility course. It was team taught by two adjuncts who actively practiced both sides of the law. They brought in a lot of real life ethical dilemmas they both faced, and I benefited from that. Staying on the right side of ethics is so important, and you can only ever trust yourself on it.

So I'm transitioning from government practice to a 6 person law firm doing mostly transactions. Any words of wisdom for how to make this transition where I'm going to be asked to bill minimums and generate clients for the first time in my career?

generating clients is just getting yourself out there. getting active in the bar association is okay for maybe getting referrals, but try and join trade associations where your prospective clients are located.

Thanks, that's a good tip. Is there any value to content blogging in the industry with some SEO?

I am doing the same currently re: taking PR and MPRE in Nov.

I don't know the answer to this question, but I do follow some pretty good small-size firm twitter accounts. They post helpful articles and they're whole schtick is blogging w/SEO codewords. I'll check tonight and post a few in here.

Can't promise they're exactly what you're looking for, but they've been very helpful for me thus far.

What industry and what sort of transactions? In most cases, they way you get corporate business is to form relationships with decisionmakers and then convince them to give you work. The industry/practice-specific questions are how do you meet the decisionmakers and what do you need to do to establish credibility with them.

Just a random lurker here...does anyone have a comment on this case from the legal POV? I'd be interested to hear some thoughts.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/29...57/index2.html

The judge noted that Ivey and companion player Cheng Yin Sun instructed dealers to arrange the cards in a certain way, which is permitted under the rules of the game, after Sun noticed minute differences in them. But he ruled those actions did violate state Casino Control Act and their contractual obligation to abide by it in gambling at the casino.

How can the requested card arrangements both be permitted in the rules of the game and violate the Casino Control Act? Doesn't that suggest BOTH parties violated the Act in playing the game/allowing it to be played? I'm just not understanding how Borgata gets to recover damages under this law when it agreed to the rules by which the game was played.

Sorry Jack, forgot those twitter links. Give me a continuation till end of today?

Quick update on my end: Got my office space set-up. Going to spend 1-2 days/week at personal injury head honcho's office doing personal injury work and the other 3-4 days/week at my office doing family law, criminal list work, etc. Brought in a case of a friend for a pretty serious auto accident case as well, so up to 3 pi clients now. Work is very interesting but some serious variance involved, especially for a guy getting started like myself.

edit: My office is like 5 min from his and within the same county, so we are practically neighbors. It was his suggestion, not mine, so obviously couldn't pass it up.

RWE,

We definitely need more context, but my first guess would be that you're correct, it likely implies a violation by both parties. What the appropriate remedies are for those violations is not ascertainable from your post however.

Haven't read anything about that case in a long time, but short story is that judges can do whatever they want and make terrible decisions every day.

Which I guess is kind of end of story because if Ivey chose to play the game then he is ultimately choosing to play by the rules of the court that has jurisdiction. I'd imagine there had to have been some sort of settlement offer. Kinda sucks, but reality is judges and juries are going to be pretty clueless about a lot of things.

Right, well the thread I linked contains the relevant info and discussion. I was just excerpting what seemed to be the critical piece of the news write-up about the case.

The full decision is here if anyone wants to geek out:

http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/...83/302463/107/

Tried to join the rarified circle of defense attorneys who successfully objected to a nolle prosequi today, but got cut down short in my bid for glory. Not even my case, I was just a stand-in who got left holding the bag (which contained a righteously indignant client who the State essentially induced into a conditional plea and appeal to clarify a matter of law before being like butnahhhh). All over our open carry law. Client showed up to court open carrying 3 firearms, and then did put them in his vehicle when I requested but I should have mentioned the 3 holsters because he sure as **** wore them before the bench.