non k through JDs. so some work exp before coming. just looked it up, 66% fit the bill but 2 years is the avg not median. idk i thought that sounded high?

non k?

Yeah 66% not coming straight from undergrad is really high AFAIK. Definitely a good thing.

i have no idea where to put the hyphen. amend it to "people who are not K-JD students"

Oh like kindergarden, lol.

Hooking up with someone in your section is generally not a good idea right?

karak, did your "lawyer itt" post in your FFB Korner mean that you got bar results back? or had you already? it did inspire me to go see if my friend passed the IL bar but apparently they don't publicly release a list of people that pass (like AR). Guessing he didn't because he makes like 15 FB status updates a day and none from the past week mention the bar.

I've seen this go both ways. I have 2 friends that started dating within a month of meeting on first day of 1L. Both are still married to their in section g/fs. A Prof allegedly started an "affair" with one of my classmates as well. The next year she was his TA and U think a couple 3 years after graduation, they married and are still married. (This Prof/Student thing was OK in the 80's and the ages were close also. My classmate was a returning student.)

OTOH a number of couples also crashed and burned. I think the difference tween the first three couples was a real deep abiding respect for each other and all three women though good students were very old fashioned in their relationship (i.e. though they were good law students on their own, they put their BF up on a pedestal and didn't try to compete with them. )

The guys also respected their girls, it wasn't so much a "Hook-up" as it was a real from the start Romance. So if you are talking booty call, I'd say skip it with a co-section member, but if you both can commit to each other and to working together and dating, then take the chance. I for one had enough to do just trying to get good grades. Hence I only went out with undergrads (Jr's or Sr's) and it was most definitely hit and run.

Either way good luck.

like anytime i use the word lawyer in a thread, it was making fun of riverma.n

Meh. Can be totally fine imo. If you think she'll be blocking down the road, avoid that ish.

2 and a half years into dating a girl I met 1L year. We did not start hooking up until the summer between 1L and 2L years before moving into full on dating. Pretty certain we will get married sometime in the next year or two. So it is not fully applicable but take it for what you will.

My law school was a goddamn rumor mill though so at least from my experience if you are trying to keep it quiet, it is a terrible, terrible environment for that. Once people hooked up, the entire class knew in short order.

the bad idea here is your decision to date a law student when you should be targeting UGs and other girls in the city! i didnt live in my law school city long enough to confirm but my guess is that depending on ur city ur gonna be at or near the top of the food chain. and besides, who wants some 25yr old law shrew over some hot 22 yr old UG who "just wants to have fun"

i hooked up with a girl from my section 1L year

she later completely unprovoked tried to run me over with her car

that's all i have to add to the discussion

I bet she was ****ing nasty in the sack though.

lol **** i remember this girl man. didnt she tell you some crazy story or something too? im too lazy to find the old post.

edit: karak, theres been request from the guys in the girl advice thread that i do a well ITF. dont move it?

Just got an MSJ granted in my first ever non-bankruptcy federal case.

Client's deposition was scheduled for a couple weeks from now, still kind of want to show up at opposing counsel's office and do one of these:

lol I appreciate all the advice, especially AC's usual sage guidance. I'll see what happens.

Congrats Miajag!

Well done. What was the issue, and how did it go down?

At my age, you either learn sage or you are stupid. Thank you for the kind words. Good luck in whatever way you chose to proceed.

To aspiring and current lawyers, I have a lesson that I would like to share with y'all that y'all should keep to heart.

Arrogance is a fatal flaw, despite the lawyer stereotype.

Apparently this is a lesson that even seasoned partners with 20 years of experience do not learn, as the arrogant partners of my firm have failed so hard to check their egos at the door that several clients that I work with are now completely fed up and have asked me to leave and choose a different firm, upon which they will transfer all of their business to me.

And now I, as a mere fourth year associate, am absconding to a different firm with half a mil in book and possibly up to a mil extra down the road depending on how I can leverage my new found wealth in connections.

I can't believe it. Even now I can't believe it. I feel like the biggest luckbox in the world, and my passion for law has now been rekindled with a brilliant flame. Hell, I may even go hang my own shingle eventually if I do get the extra mil in book.

Congrats Mori****a. You've obviously done something right to make clients trust you. Any advice for those coming up behind you?

Tell done stories about why the partners are bad.

Lol posting-from-phoneaments.

Tell SOME stories.

i can't stop loling at the censor

I gotta good one the other day. Guy on Meth running around on the street, gets hit by Drunk lady.

WHO'S AT FAULT???? Also, meth guy had to get helicoptered to the hospital, anyone want to guess the bill?