Law Students

Things I Learned This Week

By Fletcher Reede

• From a series of last-name-announcing cold-calls, I learned the extent to which one of my classes this semester is a veritable UVa Law Bloggers' Summit.
• Between Thursday and Saturday, I learned that random alumni lawyers take first-year oral arguments far more seriously than judges from the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals take the Lile Moot Court finals.
• Desegregation: good for schools, good for country clubs, bad for laundry.
• Thanks to my poor reading comprehension skills, I learned that it is possible?although not advised?to put on a suit, shave, drive to school, write an outline, and otherwise prepare for oral arguments in forty-four minutes.
• From minute forty-six to minute forty-nine, I learned that following the above plan will get you screwed when the judges decide not to interrupt and instead let you recite all of the facts. (I wish I were joking on these last two.)
• Finally, in an ironic twist worthy of O. Henry, I learned that dental floss is the most difficult item in the world to get unstuck from between teeth.

Full post as published by Partial Law on April 09, 2007 (boomark / email).