The Northwest 3L

The Bitter Commencement Speech

by The Northwest 3L on May 8, 2013 in Columns

Please enjoy the commencement speech that Northwest 3L’s school threatened to expel him for. – Ed. Good afternoon. I’d like to start by reminding whoever nominated me to give this speech that I’ll figure it out eventually. And once I do, well, you have to sleep eventually. As for everyone who voted for me, well, [...]

No Experience Offered

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by The Northwest 3L on April 23, 2013 in Columns

As legal employers increasingly fault law schools for failing to prepare their students for the actual practice of law, law schools have responded with an increasing array of student requirements that appear relevant without actually requiring the law school to provide any of that pesky practical experience that most professors don’t actually have. For example, [...]

7 Deadly Sins of Law School

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by The Northwest 3L on April 10, 2013 in Columns

Everything has its own special variations on the classic seven deadly sins and law school is no different. The sins, of course, are always the same, but the manifestations vary.

How to Finish Law School In the Middle of the Pack

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by The Northwest 3L on March 28, 2013 in Columns

With the end of my J.D. classes rapidly approaching, I’ve started to think about what I wish I’d known coming into this bullshit incredibly rewarding process. There are plenty of lists out there for how to succeed at law school, instructions on what to do in the great variety of situations that a law student will [...]

“Bar-ly” Defensible

by The Northwest 3L on March 13, 2013 in Columns, Featured

It always amazes me that the field of Antitrust has any practicing lawyers in it at all. Not because it’s a particularly complicated field, nor because it’s particularly unexciting since, in practice, the field is substantially less complicated than Administrative Law, and, as Microsoft in the ’90s and Apple more recently have shown, there’s plenty [...]

5 Things you can do with an LL.M.

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by The Northwest 3L on February 26, 2013 in Columns

As graduation approaches and the job search heats up for my fellow 3Ls, I’ve been sitting serenely on the sidelines knowing that my LL.M. will be extending into the next year. While this is nice for the moment and allows me some clarity while I study for the bar, it also means that people are [...]