Aug 24 The Most Dangerous “Lawyer” In The World Is a 1L With a Westlaw Password

It’s August so that means new law students are arriving, and 2L/3L’s are starting their upper-level classes. (Anyone have anything from this blog on their syllabus? A girl can dream.)

First, welcome, new law students! I wrote a little Q&A last year that may be helpful.

Something I didn’t write about last year was a fairly common phenomenon among my classmates, and I am sure it is common among yours as well—six weeks into law school, people are going to start asking you all kinds of legal questions.

Jun 29

Jun 29 It Was Probably Too Soon To Open Bars. It's Too Soon To Open Bar Exams.

Stacie Rosenzweig

ABA, Admissions, Current Events

Three years ago, aspiring 1Ls at the other 235 or so law schools in the United States started their first year and assumed they’d be sitting for the bar exam this summer, in person, in a stuffy hotel ballroom (Virginia test-takers in full court dress, no really).

Now, those same new graduates are wondering what, if anything, is going to happen, given that we are still in the middle of a raging pandemic and putting hundreds of panting, coughing, sweaty people in a room together, even six feet apart, is the opposite of social distancing.