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Law School from the perspective of a film major. Rated R for some disturbing imagery, crude and sexual content, some drug use, creature violence, terror, language, and brief nudity (not).
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TGIF

Because I am a lowly summer law clerk, I work part time. I like this a lot, mainly because I can do summer school and volunteering and maybe even have a life if I stop sleeping. As it got closer and closer to 4, my happiness started leaking everywhere— I actually smiled about my assignments. “That sounds exciting!” I said, high from Friday afternoon euphoria, about writing a scolding letter. “It’s really not,” said my sad superior. She has to work till 6.
It’s the weekend! Hope you’re going to have a blast too. Happy June!

“ When a question has reached the point of a contested trial, however, its whole context is changed. Victory, and not accommodation, is the objective of the parties. The adversary atmosphere and the delays of litigation naturally repel evidence, especially testimony and things under the control of disinterested persons, so that the litigants have available for use only the partisan and coerced residue after people with ingenuity have made themselves anonymous. That residue is culled by the parties with a view not so much to establishing the whole truth as to winning the case. And the evidence which survives this attrition (and the exclusionary rules of evidence described below) is communicated to the trier of fact in an emotion-charged setting. ”

Evidence- Cases and Materials by Roger Park & Co.

somuchflotsam: From today’s NY Times review of John Sutherland’s “Lives of the Novelists.” And this is why I am not a novelist. But wouldn’t it be great to have that much character? You could really open up people’s eyes to a side of life they’ve never had to think about, because they’ve never lived it.

somuchflotsam:

From today’s NY Times review of John Sutherland’s “Lives of the Novelists.”

And this is why I am not a novelist. But wouldn’t it be great to have that much character? You could really open up people’s eyes to a side of life they’ve never had to think about, because they’ve never lived it.

Happy Birthday: Perfect 10 Sues Tumblr

Today the Atlantic Wire writes about Tumblr getting sued by Perfect 10:

A week after its fifth birthday, Tumblr got hit with a grownup copyright infringement lawsuit—and a gnarly one at that.. The plaintiff is porn company Perfect 10, and they sound utterly unapologetic in the case’s paperwork. Tumblr, Perfect 10 claims, enabled the “rampant and unremedied uploading, display and distribution of Perfect 10’s copyrighted photographs.”

And…

Tumblr ought to think about controlling its porn content. While the site’s front-facing image is a haven for hipsters to drool over pictures of fixed gear bicycles and arty landscapes, there’s a massive pornographic Tumblr underbelly, and it’s likely that instances of copyright infringement aren’t limited only to Perfect 10’s images alone.


“ The federal government enacts a program that pays high school girls $1.00 per day for every day they are not pregnant. Analyze. ”

Con Law Practice Question

When my parents ask me if I feel ready for my upcoming finals.

wheninlawschool:

My response:

Reality:

helloyoucreatives: Plastic Surgery Business Card Not that this is precisely what I want for my business cards when I get them, but it would be cool to bring some creativity into the legal field.  Click the pic for more ideas!

helloyoucreatives:

Plastic Surgery Business Card

Not that this is precisely what I want for my business cards when I get them, but it would be cool to bring some creativity into the legal field.  Click the pic for more ideas!

(Source: jaymug)

wnycradiolab: nevver: What we’re reading Hell yes. This would make our Law Library so much cooler. No one uses real books anymore anyway…

wnycradiolab:

nevver:

What we’re reading

Hell yes.

This would make our Law Library so much cooler. No one uses real books anymore anyway…

Inspiration

Besides the constant competition we face amongst ourselves that encourages us to do better, work harder…my colleagues have also inspired me to think of work that never seriously crossed my mind. Homeless youth! It’s the saddest thing ever. So much potential…but kicked out of their homes just because they’re LGBT or whatever sad family situation they had.
Also, turning over new leaves. Professional school straightens people out, I think. Makes them explore who they want to be; how they want to present themselves to the world. My friend could have taken a random girl home tonight, but did not. That was pre-law school life. And, sober life.
The great thing about being in a city full of gays is that you have choices! “Too many choices,” she responded. “All the pretty ones are craaazy.”

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