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REMINDER: law journals are a waste of time
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Date: September 18th, 2015 12:43 PM Author: Narrow-minded institution kitty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2993771&forum_id=2#28784876) |
Date: September 18th, 2015 12:43 PM Author: Jade Piazza (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: Narrow-minded institution kitty "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: Passionate pontificating associate trump supporter 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: multi-colored headpube 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: Jade Piazza 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: Narrow-minded institution kitty 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: Jade Piazza 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: Mustard flirting church building 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: Narrow-minded institution kitty 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: Mustard flirting church building (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: Ebony market (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: motley thirsty library 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: Narrow-minded institution kitty 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: motley thirsty library 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: Ebony market 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: Mustard flirting church building 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: Narrow-minded institution kitty 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: motley thirsty library 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: Narrow-minded institution kitty 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: motley thirsty library 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: Ebony market 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: Narrow-minded institution kitty 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: Swashbuckling Casino 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: Narrow-minded institution kitty 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: Mustard flirting church building 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: motley thirsty library 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: Narrow-minded institution kitty 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: Swashbuckling Casino 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: Narrow-minded institution kitty 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: Ebony market 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: doobsian wine trust fund temple 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: Ebony market 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: Cerebral affirmative action (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: Turquoise jewess 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: stimulating flushed toaster indian lodge 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. |