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Date: September 14th, 2014 12:51 PM Author: umber really tough guy Typically, I tell people to stay away. But my brother's friend is about to retire from the NYPD and was thinking of doing CUNY law. He wants to go solo eventually. Money won't be an issue since he has that pension and cuny is cheap...and practical. I mean, they do a lot of clinics and stuff; things you need to know to practice irl. Thoughts? |
Date: September 14th, 2014 12:53 PM Author: Bat Shit Crazy Personal Credit Line Home Sure, why not. If you're going to LS cheap, with an income source that will continue through LS and even afterward, there's not much to lose. I still wouldnt do it because he has to be a lawyer afterward and will be hustling for crim defense clients in NYC, which sounds like a nightmare, but it's not going to ruin his life or anything. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2674275&forum_id=2#26326437) |
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Date: September 14th, 2014 1:55 PM Author: khaki antidepressant drug Why not just retire? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2674275&forum_id=2#26326751) |
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Date: September 14th, 2014 2:48 PM Author: umber really tough guy LS is probably better than sitting at home doing nothing. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2674275&forum_id=2#26327121) |
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Date: September 16th, 2014 8:32 AM Author: marvelous background story circlehead Yup, same thing with jamming shards of glass under your fingernails. Don't wanna be bored, nawmsayin? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2674275&forum_id=2#26338137) |
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Date: September 16th, 2014 7:48 AM Author: umber really tough guy Just spoke to him again. He might be doing NYLS with $$$. He hasn't applied yet, but apparently one of the deans is offering him $ if he does PT. seems quite unusual for schools to be doing outreach to potential applicants who haven't applied yet; he just cold called the admissions office and the asst dean spoke with him. Is his normal in TTT? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2674275&forum_id=2#26338093) |
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Date: September 16th, 2014 9:05 AM Author: Fishy principal's office toaster lol NYLS is probably hurting bad for applicants just like the other TTTT schools. ljl at the assistant dean rushing to the phone to throw money at a cold-calling potential applicant
and "NYLS with $$$" may not mean much when the sticker price is around $50k/year. $20k/year scholarship? Whoopdee-doo. |
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Date: September 16th, 2014 8:22 AM Author: Lavender Talented Indian Lodge You cant go solo right out of school because drafting a motion in some clinic is not preparing you to handle trials. Clinics are flame. Trial and deposition skills take hundreds of hours of practice to build. Its like learning to play the piano. A 20 or 40 hour clinic doesnt get you anywhere near where you need to be to ask people to pay you to play.
It takes better part of 3-5 years of actual practice to turn baby lawyers into the real thing. Fresh out, you are like my 8yo on the piano.
So, the real question is who the hell is going to hire your 50yo friend with NYLS or CUNY on his resume? Apart from the huge age discrimination he is going to face his degree is toilet paper.
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Date: September 16th, 2014 8:35 AM Author: marvelous background story circlehead Do you have some kind of google alert set for threads with this topic? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2674275&forum_id=2#26338142) |
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Date: September 16th, 2014 9:07 AM Author: awkward exciting degenerate No just a fulltime shitassociate (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2674275&forum_id=2#26338192) |
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Date: September 16th, 2014 9:06 AM Author: maniacal adulterous locale indirect expression Steve, one of the New York DA offices would love to have him for a few years and then criminal defendants will love him because hey the guy was a cop and a prosecutor yaknow?
I thought your whole schtick was to be practical not aspie. |
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Date: September 16th, 2014 9:13 AM Author: marvelous background story circlehead "I thought your whole schtick was to be practical not aspie." What the fuck gave you that idea? The dude is *baffled* by shitlawyers making money. |
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Date: September 16th, 2014 9:22 AM Author: maniacal adulterous locale indirect expression I thought he was shitlaw Steve and his whole deal was that people shat on him for his shitlaw ways but he made money. Sorry, I don't spend that much time here anymore. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2674275&forum_id=2#26338210) |
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Date: September 16th, 2014 9:27 AM Author: marvelous background story circlehead It's all good, man. Lemme give you the scoop. Shitlaw steve clawed his way up into an Of Counsel type position at a firm via the ranks of several shitlaw firms. As a shameless striver with an inferiority complex, he has an enormous amount of contempt for small firms, solo practice, etc. He can always be found in a thread like this claiming that solo practice is basically impossible, because it bugs him that people with so little prestige can actually make a living. Also he likes to try and distance himself from the types of practice that he used to be involved with. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2674275&forum_id=2#26338218) |
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Date: September 16th, 2014 9:32 AM Author: Adventurous genital piercing ceo let's not forget that at one hof his first jobs. a walk-in potential client took a diarrhea dump in the waiting room of his firm's converted-doctor's-office office. now, steve is a partner and Stern & Montana. oh and the client? his name was albert Einstein. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2674275&forum_id=2#26338229) |
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Date: September 16th, 2014 10:59 AM Author: maniacal adulterous locale indirect expression Tyvm for this scholarship. I can't believe I had it completely backwards. How typical and striverish. The dude is like a white trash princess who married into money. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2674275&forum_id=2#26338464) |
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Date: September 16th, 2014 9:26 AM Author: Lavender Talented Indian Lodge You mean the offices that get 3000 applications for every single job?
Solo crim practice requires experience as an actual lawyer. His cop experience is irrelevant. |
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Date: September 16th, 2014 11:01 AM Author: exhilarant lay He should really cop a 3 year internship in a crim law practice so he at least has an inside track on being hired there or getting some experience. Shitlaw crim attys are always looking for free law students to exploit. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2674275&forum_id=2#26338474) |