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REMINDER: law journals are a waste of time
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Date: September 18th, 2015 12:43 PM Author: wonderful church (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2993771&forum_id=2#28784876) |
Date: September 18th, 2015 12:43 PM Author: Alcoholic Chapel Jew (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2993771&forum_id=2#28784878) |
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Date: September 18th, 2015 12:44 PM Author: wonderful church "but what will i tell employers at oh-thee-eye," the eager 1L lisped (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2993771&forum_id=2#28784889) |
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Date: September 18th, 2015 12:44 PM Author: sapphire out-of-control university while I agree there is nothing more 180 than doing research and finding some loser academic has found all the cases already (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2993771&forum_id=2#28784882) |
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Date: September 18th, 2015 12:44 PM Author: angry church building queen of the night cr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2993771&forum_id=2#28784886) |
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Date: September 18th, 2015 12:44 PM Author: Alcoholic Chapel Jew I wrote a shitty note about some obscure public policy issue in a secondary journal. Five years later I got an email about it from a reporter asking me for an opinion. I deleted it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2993771&forum_id=2#28784885) |
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Date: September 18th, 2015 12:46 PM Author: wonderful church what kind of publication? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2993771&forum_id=2#28784900) |
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Date: September 18th, 2015 12:48 PM Author: Alcoholic Chapel Jew industry magazine (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2993771&forum_id=2#28784913) |
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Date: September 18th, 2015 12:46 PM Author: Curious gaping field wait u mean to tell me there's something in law done purely for prestige but that has no actual practical value? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2993771&forum_id=2#28784896) |
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Date: September 18th, 2015 12:50 PM Author: wonderful church enough about law school! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2993771&forum_id=2#28784919) |
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Date: September 18th, 2015 12:51 PM Author: Curious gaping field (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2993771&forum_id=2#28784932) |
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Date: September 18th, 2015 12:50 PM Author: vigorous round eye (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2993771&forum_id=2#28784924) |
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Date: September 18th, 2015 12:46 PM Author: hairraiser preventive strike temple we got credit for it. easiest credits you can get in LS. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2993771&forum_id=2#28784903) |
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Date: September 18th, 2015 12:47 PM Author: wonderful church jfc were you such a CREDIT PIG that you wanted to spend ten hours a week CITE CHECKING and writing notes? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2993771&forum_id=2#28784910) |
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Date: September 18th, 2015 12:54 PM Author: hairraiser preventive strike temple ten? more like 2. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2993771&forum_id=2#28784957) |
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Date: September 18th, 2015 12:52 PM Author: vigorous round eye This is flame. I hated being on law review, but it is a legitimate bump for job prospects. It was still referenced at the interview to my in-house job, even though by then I was like seven years removed from it. You don't learn anything, but its real value is that it proves you're willing to do menial shitwork just because you're supposed to, which is ultimately what the legal profession is all about. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2993771&forum_id=2#28784941) |
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Date: September 18th, 2015 12:53 PM Author: Curious gaping field dood clearly the OP is referencing secondary journals. everyone knows having LR on ur resume can make or braek a career in this SPS profession (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2993771&forum_id=2#28784948) |
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Date: September 18th, 2015 12:55 PM Author: wonderful church naw I'm really referencing any journal including law review. but yes agreed that secondaries are an even bigger waste of time. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2993771&forum_id=2#28784968) |
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Date: September 18th, 2015 1:08 PM Author: hairraiser preventive strike temple yes, LR or bust. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2993771&forum_id=2#28785039) |
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Date: September 18th, 2015 1:13 PM Author: wonderful church if a 1L asked me what to do, and they definitely didn't care about biglaw work, i would absolutely advise them to avoid lr and secondaries. more free time to concentrate on classes. i did LR my 2L year but quit spring semester (effective the next edition) because it was absolutely pointless, menial work and wasn't going to help me reach my goals. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2993771&forum_id=2#28785064) |
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Date: September 18th, 2015 1:14 PM Author: hairraiser preventive strike temple that's a bold move. Good that it worked out. I sloughed through it and enjoyed writing my note which wasn't accepted, but I knew it wouldn't but I now am basically an expert on this one random area of legal history, etc. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2993771&forum_id=2#28785072) |
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Date: September 18th, 2015 1:04 PM Author: vigorous round eye OP has chimed in, but agreed re secondary journals. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2993771&forum_id=2#28785017) |
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Date: September 18th, 2015 12:54 PM Author: wonderful church yeah i suppose it signals that you're a ("prestige" hungry) shiteater.
my cousin is a 1L now and told me that his school is already shoving law journal flame down his throat. |
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Date: September 18th, 2015 12:55 PM Author: Big crusty parlour what type of menial shitwork do you do in law review? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2993771&forum_id=2#28784967) |
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Date: September 18th, 2015 12:56 PM Author: wonderful church you're given a cite and you follow the cite to see if the original says what the article author is articulating.
do 50 of those a week. |
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Date: September 18th, 2015 12:59 PM Author: Curious gaping field its fucking awful (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2993771&forum_id=2#28784983) |
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Date: September 18th, 2015 1:00 PM Author: hairraiser preventive strike temple definitely the most mind numbing work in LS. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2993771&forum_id=2#28784987) |
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Date: September 18th, 2015 1:01 PM Author: wonderful church b-b-but i want to be a BIGLAWYER (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2993771&forum_id=2#28784991) |
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Date: September 18th, 2015 1:01 PM Author: Big crusty parlour if it does, what do you do?
if it doesn't what do you do? |
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Date: September 18th, 2015 1:04 PM Author: wonderful church it does: cool, no problem
if it doesn't: you look for the right pincite. maybe it's a few lines lower. if there isn't one, and the article author is completely bullshitting . . . well then I'm not sure what. |
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Date: September 18th, 2015 1:06 PM Author: vigorous round eye And not just that-- suppose that the author cites a newspaper. Well, that cite includes what page in the newspaper the article was on. It's not enough to double-check the reference on Lexis. You have to go to the library and find the newspaper (real copy or, more likely, in microfilm) to confirm that Lexis has the correct page number. One time, Lexis claimed an article was on A4 of the NY Times when it fact it was on C4. I'll never forget the look on the editor in chief's face when we found the error. It was the sort of unbridled joy that can only be summoned by children on Christmas morning or, as here, with very specific strains of autism. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2993771&forum_id=2#28785031) |
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Date: September 18th, 2015 1:11 PM Author: razzle zippy market I have fixed errors like this, and for a brief moment it was like I got a mob boss incriminating himself on a wire. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2993771&forum_id=2#28785053) |
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Date: September 18th, 2015 1:07 PM Author: vigorous round eye In addition to cite checking, there's also the dreaded "Find Authority." A professor made factual or legal assertion x, but didn't get around to citing anything for it. Well, guess who is on a scavenger hunt to find an answer? Sometimes it's NBD, but other times you're trying to find a law review acceptable authority for the proposition that "cops like to eat doughnuts is a pop culture trope." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2993771&forum_id=2#28785034) |
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Date: July 20th, 2018 1:09 AM Author: mint misunderstood theatre mad-dog skullcap (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2993771&forum_id=2#36463807) |
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Date: July 20th, 2018 1:14 AM Author: Dead fear-inspiring bbw office you're also sometimes fixing the cites in an article that is a complete mess, and moving a bunch of supras and shit around (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2993771&forum_id=2#36463824) |
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Date: September 19th, 2015 12:53 PM Author: Yapping Medicated Native Pistol I was on one and it took up about 10 hours of my life and I got a credit for it.
But yeah its funny how people get super into fixing pin cites or whatever and think they're smart. |