“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are law students.”
No matter how many times you hear a law student complain about spending hours in the law library or some gunner wrecking the curve, the simple fact of the matter is that the problem isn’t law school. The problem is us, law students. Keep Reading ⇒
Gotta love this one from Lawyerist.com (Okay, it’s from abnormaluse.com via Lawyerist). Whether an ad from a lawyer or a PI hotline, isn’t relevant here. It’s the use of slang like “phat” in advertising or any other professional capacity. Please, please, if you’re an attorney don’t stoop to this level.
So the Olympic Opening Ceremony was . . . okay? Probably would have been more enjoyable if I had popped some bath salts or dropped LSD. That giant baby was weird and I don’t understand why there wasn’t a John Lennon hologram. It’s 2012 London — get with the times. Nonetheless it was very British and I guess that’s cool. Still there were a couple things that stood out:
Anyways, on to the Medals Ceremony . . .
Each Saturday we reach into the fridge and pull out the best leftovers to eat. That is, the most-read posts of the past week, which for the week ending July 27, 2012, include:
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It’s Thursday. Let’s pull some fun from the Bitter Vault. This is a good one. Sure, it’s long, but very instructive on how to make it in this crap market: be smart – and get lucky. And don’t think you’re above legal temping. It can be very profitable.
Now, let’s see . . . where’s the combination to the vault ? Ah ha! There it is!
Dear Law Firm 10,
I’m a cultural Neanderthal. I’ll admit it. Over the last seven years I immersed myself in work and barely looked up. Now, I’m seeing some light and want to date around (as opposed to hooking up with a girl now and then). But I’m woefully behind the times. In other words, I cannot carry on a conversation about anything related to television, movies, or books without saying something like, “How do you play Game of Thrones?”
What should I do? Subscribe to People and get up to speed? Or does it matter? I don’t want to seem like I’ve been under a rock for the last ten or so years even though I kinda have.
There is a double standard in appropriate court room attire for male and female attorneys. Men wear suit jackets and ties to court every time. I’ve seen 6’3” men borrow the suit jackets of their 5’9” coworkers to go to court when they’ve misplaced their own, men ridiculed or reprimanded for choosing a bowtie over the traditional, and male attorneys who won’t even enter the courtroom if they feel less than professionally dressed. On the other hand, I’ve seen women in dresses I’d wear to the beach, bedazzled jean jackets, make up I’d only wear on Halloween, and shoes only a “dancer” should wear to work. So, I’m going to discuss and occasionally proffer advice on what I see as problematic in women’s court attire, from head to toe.
Makeup: There’s a place for bar or club makeup. And it’s at the bar or in the club, not the courtroom. There’s a place to test out new makeup techniques. It’s your bathroom, not the courtroom. If you’re using glitter or smoky eye or really any color found in a rainbow on your eyelids as part of your professional court appearance, you’re doing it wrong. I’m going to skip blushes and lipsticks and just say this: even clowns don’t want to look like clowns. As usual, a little goes a long way. Don’t overdo it.
Awww snap. It’s bar exam week. After months of studying for the bar and actually learning the law, you are undoubtedly eager to black out in a couple of days — for a couple days. Starting Tuesday you will know more law than you will in your entire life. It all goes downhill from there. Just don’t sleep with your clients (unless you represent yourself — see comments) and don’t cash out your IOLTA account for a weekend trip to the casino and you should be fine. Oh, and don’t fall asleep or vomit at your desk . . . those things are also frowned upon. But no matter how bad you think you did on the bar exam (and trust me — you did better than you think) the following people are going to be knocked off by Darwin’s theory of survival of the fittest first, so you got that going for you.
