Undoubtedly our recent post about how to make a martini turned all of you into Bitter martini-lushes. As such, you probably have a million follow-up questions that, admittedly, we here at Bitter Lawyer aren’t qualified to answer. (Our own Bitter Bartender is nowhere to be found at the moment.) Enter The Martini FAQ.
Good luck. And thanks to the Lawyerist Daring Fireball for this one. And a tip ‘o’ the hat to our parent company Lawyerist for bringing it to our attention. And to the Constitutional Daily for policing the blawgosphere for violations in link sharing etiquette by link whores like us.
What I did not fully grasp was how ultra-important first-year grades are, and how they have nothing to do with your intellectual mastery of the material, and have everything to do with writing an exam answer that the professor will find easy to read and easy to give a high grade. If you get mediocre first year grades, it won’t matter much how much better you do later, because everybody does better later. It’s almost impossible to catch up.
Read 1Ls Should Focus Only on Exams on Lawyerist
Working comedian and Lawyerist contributor Alex Barnett on how to cope with being fired from a law firm:
If you’ve been fired you know what it feels like. You feel like a crime was committed. You feel like your boss just mugged you and stole your dignity and your confidence. Oh, and while he or she was at it, they stole your income, your benefits, and your standing amongst your colleagues. And, then for good measure, he or she took a sledgehammer and went to work on your resume.
He should know, having been fired and/or laid off from four different law firms. Read more on Lawyerist.
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