Recent law school graduates have been taking the bar exam. In a couple months, hopefully around 56.2% of them will have jobs. The below hypothetical memo is written from a senior partner to new associates of a firm. [divider] New Associates, Congratulations on...
The first day on the job for a new lawyer is overwhelming. Theoretically, law school has prepared a new lawyer to be a functioning attorney. In reality, most new lawyers are clueless. Especially K-JDs.* Most new lawyers wouldn’t be able to find the...
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.” — Aristotle The trick is not holding other people accountable – but holding yourself accountable. It’s the central starting point of developing an appropriate...
Very briefly over at PrawfsBlawg there was a post up entitled How To Increase Your Risk of Not Getting Tenure by recently tenured Harvard law prof I. Glenn Cohen. I say was because it quickly got pulled down. Over at TaxProf, Paul Caron has a clip from the...
I was talking with some 3L students a month ago who were oh-so-ready to graduate from law school, but also nervous knowing that the bar exam is looming not too far away. Thinking back to when I took bar exam, there was a certain level of anxiety and apprehension in...