One more Reason I MUST become a Judge.

Credit to John Roberts, this is his find: Absolutely the best proof that justice in the South freakin' rocks.

One Week Later

At this time last week I was having a bad day. To update:

I still don't know what I want to do with my life, but now I have a full-time offer in hand for after graduation, so I guess I know what I want to do for the next year or two.

I put all of my clothes on properly today.

I got out of jury duty.

Plus, I only have 4 days left of my summer job, and then almost two weeks off before it's back to school.

Really, the only thing I have to complain about right now (shocking, that there is only one thing, isn't it?) is that I'm taking the MPRE on Friday. Hopefully I can learn to be about 59% professionally responsible by then so that I can get a high enough score for the jurisdiction I want to practice in.

To the rest of you sitting for the MPRE in five days, good luck! And if you haven't started studying, check out this site for some help.

Why I love my Summer Job

So I've been at work for about 2 weeks now and it is nothing like the legal job I had last year. Last year I routinely wrote 10-20 page memos for various partners and would never get any sort of feedback on my brilliant musings. However, this summer is different; last summer was litigation, this summer is something very near and dear to my heart and what I plan on doing with the rest of my life. A recent conversation with one of the partners:


Lance: This [legal writing project] is nothing like I have ever had to do before. It takes forever.

Partner: How long have you been working on it?

Lance: About 8 hours.

Parnter: How much have you written?

Lance: About a page.

Partner: That's typical for your first time, sometimes I will work on [legal writing project] for just as long and have very little to show for it.

Lance: (thinking to himself) Wow, I can bill people for sitting at my desk and thinking. What a great job; 8 hours of work and 1 page of work product.



Any idea what field of law I am working in? No guessing by fellow Bitches...

Need another hint: I got paid the other day for doing six hours of "internet research." In the words of Yakov Smirnoff, "What a country!!"

Two Minute Update

So, as you might have all guessed, finals are long over, a few of our grades are in, hundreds of pages of textbooks ended up in a bonfire, and all of the LawBitches are working for the summer. We're not about to get into the game of blogging about our jobs/employers/co-workers. There may be an occasional quip here or there, but really we have virtually nothing interesting* to talk about if we are not in school and not talking about our jobs.

Given that, I guess you can expect the LawBitches to be pretty quiet over the summer. We'll be back in full force in August though, so stay tuned. For some reason I think our 3L year is going to be the year of craziness, as we really no longer care about studying (yes, for most of us the slide started last semester), we're working while in school, and we've committed ourselves to a lot of other things.

So where are the Bitches going to be at this summer? Well...

Five are continuing jobs that they held during the school year.
Two are working jobs that they actually held last summer.
Three are working in various positions for the county.
Three are working in small firms where they are either the sole or one of two law clerks.
Two (possibly three) are working exactly in the fields that they plan on going into after graduation.
Two don't start their jobs until June.
Six have been submersed in work since two days after finals ended. (Sucks to be you guys).
None of the LawBitches are working in jobs that are even remotely similar to one another -- meaning every one is in a different practice area. (Hmm, maybe we could start our own firm someday).
Six of the Bitches are already getting into the habit of meeting for happy hour. It's going to be a great summer!


*I guess interesting is relative, because to most people the stuff we blog about isn't even remotely interesting at all...

Four Disbursements Ago...

I have a job lined up this summer working for one of those big accounting firms doing tax law stuff. Being the tax nerd of the group, it's perfect for me. The caveat? The job requires either a CPA or a law degree.

My husband's response: "So, you're telling me that you could have saved $100k in loans, took a $2k prep course and gotten your CPA instead?"

Me: "Um, but a law....." Damn. Why didn't I think of that four financial aid disbursements ago?