Hi everyone,

This winter I am working with Judge Young and his clerks at the Moakley Courthouse in Boston. I've already been put on a legal research project and told that I will be writing bench memoranda at least once every two weeks. In addition, I will get to sit in on trials, motions, etc. However, some of my friends on the other rotation warned me that the excitement of sitting through a trial wears away fairly quickly. Note: Pinching oneself does not work and leaves bruises.

Still I am taking this experience as a chance to see litigation in process. I'm fairly sure I want to do transactional work in the future, but I think a lot of that is that I haven't seen what litigation has to offer. I've never done debate and NUSL does not have Moot Court or Mock trial except for those competitions offered by the affinity groups and different organizations (APALSA made it to the Vegas Nationals).

I do think that the opportunity to do a judicial internship is one of NUSL's advantages. Of course, students from other schools do judicial internships, but the other schools don't have a long list of judges as co-op employers.

Misc. note about my alma mater - Heroic Computer Dies to Save World from Master's Thesis

The article is hysterical.

Posted by Laurinda at 11:58 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

Happy belated Thanksgiving everyone!

I hope everyone took a nice few days off. NUSL gives the ULs (upper levels) a week before sending us back into the fray.

Having a week's rest, I thought it would be nice to have a quick recap of my exams.

On Tuesday of exam week, I had Evidence. Evidence was a partially open book exam. This means that I got to bring my outline and the Federal Rules of Evidence supplement. I think I did well and at least I know I was well-prepared. My basic study method for this was outline, outline the outline, outline the FREs, tabbing, and taking practice exams. I tend to think I overprepped this one. Let's hope that is reflected in the evaluations.

My second exam was Thursday. This was Law of Financial Institutions which is basically a survey of banking law. The subject matter is interesting, complicated, and extremely difficult. The exam fact pattern reflected this. The exam was pretty brutal and speaking to my fellow classmates about it, that is pretty much the consensus. Especially since I know no one finished on time or actually had enough time. I only need another 4 hours or so. Sigh. This is the exam I am most worried about. Of course it doesn't help that I realized my adapter died on me during the exam. Thank goodness for a long battery life or this entry would never make it as having my laptop die would be possibly permanently traumatizing.

I solved this problem by borrowing an adapter for my next and FINAL exam of the fall quarter: Corporations. Corporations after the brutality of LFI actually wasn't so bad. This was a Rules book only exam. I actually feel like I knew the subject matter pretty well by the end, but well, we shall see!

Have a great week everyone!

Posted by Laurinda at 9:25 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

So I am in crazy study mode for my exams on Thurs and Fri. Talk to you when the storm passes.

Posted by Laurinda at 4:29 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Hi everyone,

This is the last week of classes! Time has passed so quickly and next week will be exams.

As I mentioned before I have 3 in-class exams and one take home and 0 reading week. This means that I've been outlining for a month but I am still not done! There is still so much to be done and somehow I've become the organizer for all the study groups. Studying in law school is much different than in college because (at least for me) studying involves creating outlines, outlining the outline, and taking practice exams (the professor's previous exams).

Because of this mad dash life I will be signing off.

Wish me luck!

Posted by Laurinda at 9:35 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)