Cool, thanks. I told the guy that the agent should initial in his name and at the end sign JQP by JQA.

Random question:

Rather take 1. Wills, trusts and estates, 2. intellectual property, 3. basic income tax or 4. internet law.


Pick three, leave one out.


edit: Thinking 2, 3, 4 but interested to hear some feedback

I'd pass on internet law. You'll gain a lot more from the other 3 and it's stuff you can actually use.

Income tax is so boring imo but i guess useful. Internet law is basically IP in internet context. Wills and trust is pretty useless imo as it's pretty straight forward to learn on your own

Never mind, didn't get into everything I wanted. I'll be taking:

1. PA Crim Pro Advanced
2. Wills, Trusts, Estates
3. Basic fed income tax
4. IP
5. Oil and Gas law


I passed on corporations/admin law first sem to dodge some of the gunners who were rushing into it. Also, tried for pro rep/evidence but not enough slots

Gunners were rushing into admin law? That's weird.

Surprisingly, yes. My favorite prof is teaching it next semester, so I decided to wait anyways but my decision was definitely swayed by the top 5% all taking admin law instantly.

Huh. Not every state bar even tests for that. I work in admin law but I never took the class in law school and I guess I don't know where the big academic appeal would be.

Yeah I'm pretty sure it's not even tested on my state's bar either. The professor teaching is pretty good and I think he may have some connections in D.C. At least that's the rumor around school.

Could just be a coincidence this year though.

Soliciting everyone's opinion:

full ride to a t20 law school in the city the 0L wants to live/practice in (not NYC)
vs
sticker at Columbia/NYU

I have my thoughts but I told them I'd ask around so I'll leave them out for now.

Option A and it's not close.

yes, super not even remotely close

Option A

Admin law often takes on the procedural due process portion of con law, so to the extent that this is the case at your school, then some portion of the class would be applicable to the bar exam. I am guessing from your course list that you are in PA? I took the PA bar in 2011 and other than that there was no admin law on it.

Yep, PA. Any tips for the PA bar, even though it's down the line a bit?

The main thing is not to get intimidated by the number of subjects tested. Rather than having long, mega-issue spotter essays on a few subjects, PA likes to give a fact pattern and then ask a series of short essay questions covering a handful of subjects. The questions tend to be focused and test the core concepts of the subject, so even if you didn’t take that class in law school, you will usually be fine, as long as you have the basics down. The key to the PA Bar, as with most bar exams, I think, is to nail the multi-state. Doing that will get you pretty far on the torts, contracts, property, crimpro and conlaw portions of the essays. One thing that is really wacky about PA is civil procedure – it is not structured like the federal rules, particularly at the pleading stage. Not sure that you need to take PA CivPro to deal with it (because again, they don’t test too deeply on any subject), but if it works with your schedule you might consider that. As for Bar Prep, I did the Themis course for the essay portion – I watched the videos online and took tons of practice tests (on my own – after submitting one to my assigned tutor/instructor and getting unhelpful feedback, I just blew her off). With respect to the multi-state, I just used the BarBri stuff from when I took the DE Bar.

Option A if you're pretty confident you want to stay in that city.

Thanks everyone. I obviously feel the same way, but you've helped me prove a point. I even omitted the fact that this person's significant other lives in the t20 city and is extremely established in his/her career (6 figure-job, 10 years experience).

A not close.

Not sure where to ask this, but thought this might be a good place to start...

I'm the Resource Manager at an IT Consulting firm in Seattle, WA.

I've been asked to look into specifics for starting an internship program. (laws, etc)

I've looked around Google and have found some relevant information, but I'm struggling to find anything published in the past ~12 months. Something specific to Washington State would be ideal.

We're likely going to hire a recent college grad who's interested in getting a taste for the consulting world and we will pay them a salary (well above minimum wage), which from what I've read so far it sounds like they'd basically be an employee.

If anyone has any insight into where I can find some (fairly recent) guidelines I would greatly appreciate it!

I'm deciding on my course schedule for next term. I'm thinking
1. Con Law (requirement for 2L year)
2. Enterprise Organizations
3. Evidence
4. A non-demanding seminar

I'm uncertain what area I'm going to go into but I'm leaning towards litigation. Does this schedule seem reasonable?

Sure, if you either want to be miserable or are a naturally combative insufferable pompous prick.

Sounds like you would have made an excellent litigator.

Riverman are you a lawyer?

I wouldn't really base the schedule too much your potential on area of practice. Take classes that fit with your schedule, have profs with good reputations, cover stuff that is on the bar, and that might be interesting to you.