Law Students

It?s the end of the world as we know it and I feel caffeinated

Posted on September 18, 2009
Many of you may have seen or heard Lewis Black’s tirade on the infamous junction of Shepherd and W.Gray in Houston at which there is a Starbucks at the NorthEast and SouthEast corners of the intersection. Well boys and girls, things have gotten even more interesting...

Oh, see I?..

Posted on September 04, 2009
On-campus Interviews (OCI) areproving to be the bane of many a rising 2L as well as for those 3Ls still on the prowl. As a matter of fact, us law students are a bit spoiled. Most of us in undergrad or other grad schools would consider ourselved wildly fortunate to have gainful employ well before we enter our [...

A Henri Nouwen mantra

Posted on April 10, 2009
I stumbled on this vignette this morning and thought it simply too good not to share: “Anyone shot by a gun is first shot by a word and anyone shot by a word is first shot by a thought” - Henri Nouwen It was used in the context of how people just with thoughts and words do [...

Maybe it?s true what they say about Aggies?.

Posted on March 27, 2009
When it comes to Intra-Texas college rivalries, I can honestly say I don’t have a dog in the fight. If anything, after moving from State College, PA to Austin, TX, I was a little biased against the pervasive bloated burnt orange bovine that sits pretty in the middle of the Texas state capitol...

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Spring Break Blues - A cautionary tale

Posted on March 23, 2009
I think the hardest thing for most evening students is reconciling the fact that our social life effectively gets flushed down the toilet the day we walk into law school. I particularly am amazed by those in my cohort that juggle the family life, law school and a full-time job...

I wouldn?t do that if I were you

Posted on March 12, 2009
” I wouldn’t do that if I were you”, was the oft-repeated phrase I heard as a child. Whether it be a word of caution from a parent, an older sibling or a friend that was looking out for my general well-being. I mostly associate the phrase with discourses between Junior, the protagonist from the [...

Hot or not?

Posted on March 01, 2009

The Rest of the Story: R.I.P Paul Harvey

Posted on March 01, 2009

Is it criminal to be an idiot?

Posted on February 27, 2009

OCI: From a Hiring Partner?s Perspective

Posted on October 06, 2008
I was looking up the NALP (National Association for Law Placement) rules about OCI on google and stumbled rather fortuitously on a blog written by a hiring partner at a law firm. It’s called Hiring Partner’s Office and it doles out succinct and thankfully very candid advice about on-campus recruitment, what the hiring partner thinks and [...

Overheard in Law School

Posted on September 27, 2008
From a conversation between arguably the two prettiest girls in my class: “there must be some sort of special lawyer cancer.  it fills up the cavity where your soul used to be.” - _ - _ - What, me jaded?       

Privatizing profit & socializing loss

Posted on September 21, 2008
With all the mess that’s been going on with Lehman Brothers suddenly having the market value of snails on toast and Fannie & Freddie Mac falling deeper into the mortgage meltdown morass, I drifted away to thoughts of a radio show. Once upon a time in a galaxy not too far away, I accidentally turned to [...

On-Campus Interviews (OCI) - Part I: Enter the Dragon

Posted on September 20, 2008
Prior to Hurricane Ike and its progeny of ills, I was in the throes of on-campus interviews or what’s popularly called in Legalese, OCI. I was tempted not to blog about OCI until it was largely over figuring that sunshine, while being the best disinfectant, would also be the best way not to secure a [...

What?s hurricane force winds got to do with it?

Posted on September 15, 2008
So Ike, came, saw, bruised & battered, Galveston, coastal West Texas and Houston. I’m in one of the few places that has power in Houston: my office. That’s right, I’ve been sleeping and living in my office for the past two days. It’s actually quite comfortable...

Palin in comparison?..

Posted on September 08, 2008
In an e-mail from my boss: JESUS WAS A ?COMMUNITY ORGANIZER?    PONTIUS PILATE WAS A GOVERNOR   Couldn’t have said it better myself.

For when you?re not feeling so chipper?.

Posted on August 30, 2008
Am I the only person who sees insane irony in the fact that some poor man named Wood was killed by a wood chipper? For more on that and a voluble round up on excluding evidence of remedial measures as evidence of liability see Wood v. Morbark Industries, 70 F...

A funny thing happened on the way to the final?

Posted on August 29, 2008
It’s amazing what burn-out, a relationship and the decidedly complex world of a 2L law student can do the lifeblood of a blog. It’ll kill it I say! Well I figure now is as good a time as any to get back into it. I’m technically just past mile marker 13...

WWJD? - Bumper Sticker Wisdom

Posted on February 09, 2008
 Trust the back of a chevy (& a Honda) to proselytize while I was waiting at a stop light Car #1: “Who would Jesus Bomb?” Car#2: “When Jesus said ‘Love your Enemies’, he probably meant don’t kill them” And no I didn’t spot these out while cruising through Montrose or the Heights...

Why you need advice from 3Ls

Posted on November 11, 2007
Those that have gone ahead of us can often save us from tripping into the pitfalls that lie ahead. One such pioneer is UHLC’s Eff who has informed me some of some seriously vital things such as Facebook now having 6 player risk and most importantly the deciphering of the dance moves from Soulja Boy’s Crank That...

Constitution, what constitution?

Posted on November 03, 2007
From the Chicago Tribune: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-pakistan_5s_goeringnov04,1,6159722.story So the Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf decides to declare a state of emergency and throws the country pretty much into martial law...

Sharon Keller: Dumb or just mean?

Posted on October 23, 2007
In another instance of judicially induced nausea, Judge Keller is under tremendous fire for her part in the ultimate execution of convicted felon Michael Richards. Think whatever you want to about the death penalty and about whether you think she was right or not but I will paraphrase Sister Helen Prejean (of Dead Man Walking [...

Clarence Thomas needs to return his law degree to Yale

Posted on October 23, 2007
I figured it would take quite a bit to get me out of my workload induced exile from blogging but it only took a four column article in the other day’s Houston Chronicle for me to be unable to contain myself. So the Hon. Clarence Thomas, one of conservative Fab Four in the Supreme Court in [...

Now that I?m in ?Work you to death phase??..

Posted on September 07, 2007
Fellow 2L law school victim, Luke Gilman echoed the oft-repeated truism of the ladder of law school life which goes something like this: “Scare you to death, Work you to death, Bore you to death”. These allegedly represent your three years (in my case 3...

Apple the New Microsoft?

Posted on September 07, 2007
For all you anti-trust mavens, tech-geeks and apple fanatics, PC World published a fantastic article about how Microsoft has abdicated its throne as the world’s Technology Bully and passed the torch on to its techangelic rival Apple. In his article today, Mike Elgan with Computer World reckons ITunes bundling with Ipods and Mac OS is just as bad as [...

Administrative Law with Prof. Bush

Posted on August 24, 2007
This post along with the many that are fluttering around my head is long overdue. One of the things that I promised I would do on this blog is give you the reader (note the singular for a reason….) my two cents on the classes I take and law school in general...

Cleavage Cacophony

Posted on August 09, 2007
So I’m sick of this incessant talk about Cleavage-gate and the non-stop press about a one-off incident of a dipping neckline. Gosh, America is so prudish. On the one hand we have Hustler and Playboy and Girls Gone Wild, yet a peeping breast, let alone a protruding one sends the whole nation in a FCC-phoning and [...

Another way for justice to go blind

Posted on August 03, 2007
In another case of “I don’t know whether to laugh or cry” with regards to the legal system, we have a sherrif in Florida seeking prosecution of inmates for indecent exposure etc. who were err ’shaking hands with mr. happy’ (as Robin Williams once called it) in their cells...

300: The Law School Edition

Posted on August 01, 2007
 Discovered while cutting through the 1L study carrels at the UH Law Center. You have been forewarned incoming 1Ls!