summer

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For anyone out there foolish enough to take advice from me, here’s a list of ideas I’ve come up with to manage my own “vacation” from law school.

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A collection of posts about being a law firm summer associate and what NOT to do to stay that way or get an offer

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It’s the middle of August and all motivation has left me. The summer is nearly gone, my summer associate has returned to school, and I’ve returned to my non-summer role as the holder of the partner’s slopbucket. The calendar has reached that page where there is absolutely nothing of importance going on in the office. [...]

It is summer time! Besides heading to the beach, looking for chicks, partying, beaching it up, and boozing, you should be networking. Networking key to having a successful legal career. Summer is the perfect time to start setting up your future client roster, so don’t party too hard! This is a brand-spanking-new episode of Mr. [...]

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Here are your headlines from the Bitter Newsroom, where we don’t leave our $100m ATM receipts lying around: The Supreme Court cut through the crap and stated, unequivocally, that video games are art and subject to full First Amendment protection. We in the Newsroom applaud this decision for a number of reasons: Now a violent [...]

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In honor of Independence Day, we thought we would bring you the top 5 law movies for summer. To qualify, movies had to take place in summer, with visibly sweating people who are complaining about the heat or celebrating July 4th—and of course, it had to relate to the law. So for those of you studying [...]

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Was I a dumbass for turning down job summer law firm job offers when my heart wasn’t in it but the money probably would have made me feel better?

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QWhat should I do during the summer after my first year? I tried to get a summer associate job, but I didn’t even get an interview. I want to do something reasonably fun, but I don’t want to jeopardize my prospects for finding a second-year summer associate job. Any thoughts?