Law Students

?Perspective? or ?Wishes for a New Semester.?

Posted on August 13, 2009
I was sitting this evening, procrastinating, with my new baby curled up in a bouncy seat next to me, and I started to think. As the Sherpa has noted, school is only days away, and I?ve got more than a few things to do to get ready. Compared with his level of preparation, you would [...

Banning Firms from OCI for Lack of Professionalism?

Posted on August 13, 2009
Fordham’s law school has banned Reed Smith from participating in On Campus Interviewing for 5 years. Read more at Above the Law and ABA Journal. (Update: Above the Law covers Reed Smith’s excellent, straight-forward response.) A memo from Fordham Law’s Dean reads, in part: Ethics and professionalism are at the heart of the legal profession...

Knowing When to Shut Up

Posted on August 12, 2009
As part of my job I’ve done some media training. This is when an organization hires a PR firm to teach them about working with the media. Part of this is conducting mock  interviews, often on camera, to get them comfortable answering questions a reporter might ask, particularly difficult questions...

Almost Ready to Go

Posted on August 10, 2009
Nine days til class starts. My to do list is growing. Pulled down my first assignments. I finally opened up the boxes my books arrived in. Have some interviews scheduled. Got to see some law school friends at journal orientation over the weekend. Purchased binders for notes and outlines...

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Journal Orientation

Posted on August 09, 2009
This weekend is our quad-journal orientation. Each of our school’s four law journals has orientation where staffers learn the finer points of Westlaw, LexisNexis, and the law library while the editors lay out responsibilities for staff members and get our first (of 5) editing lectures on things like sentence structure, subject-verb agreement, editing for style, [...

The Value of Law School

Posted on August 08, 2009
There have been a good number of people who have hit our site searching the web for the phrase “is law school worth it.” It’s been a while since we really tackled that one. For those looking to answer that question, I highly recommend three of our earlier posts to help answer your question: Do the [...

Football Friday for 08/07/09

Posted on August 07, 2009
Today is Football Friday here at The Hypo. We’ll do this each week as pretty much an open thread to talk all things football – college, NFL, fantasy. Just an outlet to escape from the law and career talk for a while. I guess I can start with the NFL team I root for...

Dropping Like Flies

Posted on August 07, 2009
We got word this week that 3 large law firms have canceled their OCI dates at CUA. It’s not a big deal for yours truly as I was only really interested in one (albeit one that was high on my list). And I guess it’s largely to be expected given the nature of the job [...

Fall Recruiting and the Evening Student, Part 2: Selling Your Experience

Posted on August 06, 2009
Chances are, if you’re an evening student you’re slightly more, uh, seasoned than your day section counterparts. Not over the hill, exactly, but far enough removed from your undergraduate experience to remember doing research for your political science papers using books and a card catalog...

Fall Recruiting and the Evening Student, Part 1: Telling Your Boss

Posted on August 05, 2009
If you’re an evening student who also has a real job (particularly if it’s non-legal), I suspect you share my sense of angst with the fall recruiting process. Granted, this year all law students have a particularly angst-filled path to trod through fall recruiting with firms canceling, shortening or otherwise messing with the summer programs...

The New Us ? Back in the Game

Posted on August 04, 2009
Rumors of our demise have been greatly exaggerated, though perhaps reasonably relied upon. But as we prepare to enter our third year of law school and approach the second anniversary of this blog’s launch, it’s about time you know who I am...

Changes to Come

Posted on May 22, 2009
Ugh. Nearly 3 months since our last post. I’m sorry about that. While we really avoided Fight the Hypo during what was a very exhausting end of the semester (yes, I realize plenty of law students kept blogging during that time; they’re better than us) right now we’re really figuring out where this blog goes next...

Study Music

Posted on March 29, 2009
My latest study music playlist: Jackopierce, Bringing on the Weather The Frames, Burn the Maps The Whitest Boy Alive, Dreams Unwed Sailor, The Faithful Anchor Garden State Motion Picture Soundtrack Ray Lamontagne, Gossip in the Grain Radiohead, In Rainbows Denison Witmer, Philadelphia Songs Scrubs Soundtrack (vol 1) Jack Johnson, Sleep Through the Static Kings of Convenience, Versus Coldplay, Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends Just [...

The Law 1; Ashton Kutcher 0.

Posted on March 22, 2009
Not that it take a lot to set fire to the factual underpinnings of your average Ashton Kutcher vehicle, but its sure funny when your concurrent law school studies bring the gasoline. To wit, I was flipping through HBO late last night, and caught the first 15 minutes of ?What Happens in Vegas,? a predictable [...

Don?t Be a Lawyer?

Posted on March 17, 2009
Dr. Bombay and I have had similar experiences lately. Lawyers have told us to avoid going into the law. My impression is that there is a group of people who continue to practice law but hate it and aren’t shy about telling you. The rest just keep their mouths shut about it, masking their real [...

Managing Stress

Posted on March 16, 2009
I’m so excited. Evening law students will be teaching university staff how to manage stress: This week: Counseling Roundtable for Evening Students Thursday, March 19th 5:30 p.m. Room 305 Be sure to attend this year’s ELSA Roundtable discussion with the CUA Counseling Center for tips on how to manage the stress, anxiety, and other concerns many evening students experience...

Laptops in Class

Posted on March 12, 2009
Via the Volokh Conspiracy: Please Repeat the Question from Amanda Bakale on Vimeo.

Obama?s Justice

Posted on March 11, 2009
Did you see that Justice Souter this week described his job on the Supreme Court as “a sort of annual intellectual lobotomy“? Say what? Law.com, where the link above takes you, suggests this confirms what many have suspeected for sometime, namely that Souter is seriously weary of being a Justice and seriously interested in retiring...

A Cartoon After Our Own Heart

Posted on March 11, 2009
Today’s Courtoon depicts the inspiration for our blog’s name. Incidentally, if you haven’t already done so, Courtoons should really a subscription in your news reader or in your bookmarks under “visit daily.”

Your Internet Presence

Posted on March 11, 2009
You should be aware of your internet presence - http://tinyurl.com/cq8eca

Effects of Statutory Interpretation on Lawmaking

Posted on March 07, 2009
Administrative Law is a pain. One case will purport to be the definitive standard on deference. Another case, written by the same Justice, will purport to reinforce that standard only when one reads what’s actually written there is little reinforcement happening...

Pluto A Planet Again? Sort Of

Posted on March 06, 2009
Clearly buffeted by the waves of yet another political scandal, the powers-that-be in the great state of Illinois need to expand their base. So they’ve looked to the stars, hoping to find the much needed favor that seems to evade them in more terrestrial precincts: Fresh off voting to remove its ethically questionable and impeccably coiffed [...

Nice Civ Pro Hypo

Posted on February 25, 2009
No.634 gives us this good and entertaining civ pro hypo.

The Subway Hypo

Posted on February 24, 2009
Tonight in Con Law we started on nonverbal conduct as speech warranting First Amendment protection and finished up the classes of speech that can be regulated with a quick overview of commercial speech. Because one of the examples our professor used as a permissible regulation was burning things in your fireplace, I got to thinking on [...

The IRS and ?Egregious Governmental Conduct?

Posted on February 22, 2009
Quote from my Admin casebook on application of estoppel to suits against government: “Of course, no list of egregious governmental conduct would be complete without a case from the Internal Revenue Service.”

The Proverbial Question

Posted on February 21, 2009
Professor says we’ll cover a certain amount of reading during given weeks. We skip going over two weeks of reading that was listed on syllabus. Are students still responsible for knowing said skipped reading, which in this case amounts to 85 pages? (I’m inclined to say yes, but I’ve never liked the idea...

Funyuns Would Have Been Cheaper.

Posted on February 21, 2009
Yesterday, I was having a rather intense discussion with an owner?s representative about one of my projects when it was rudely interrupted by a drug bust. Four Arlington County, VA (maybe they were State Troopers) jumped out of a van, raid vests on, guns drawn and surrounded this beat to crap Honda Civic, while another  [...

Getting to Deregulation

Posted on February 19, 2009
I had a brain cramp last night in Admin. I just couldn’t grasp what the professor was asking me when I was briefing a case. He wanted me to state the effect of a certain agency interpretation of a statute that required carriers to do business with shippers “reasonably...

Going to Law School Part-Time

Posted on February 17, 2009
Luke Gilman has posted this very thoughtful post on going to law school part-time. I think there’s much merit in what he says. I certainly agree with his criteria for choosing a school, but add some thoughts on what they mean for evening students and on my current opinion (subject to change) that you should [...

Law is Like?. the French Taunter

Posted on February 14, 2009
How would you capture the essence of law school? I’ve felt since the very first semester that the movie The Paper Chase gets at something central to law school - a challenge to your ego inviting you to take up an intellectual quest for knowledge and growth...

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