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MPRE

Posted on August 09, 2009
Many people have asked me recently, “Hey Steve, what are yo up to?”  My answer has generally been, “Finishing the Enrichment stuff up, writing my papers, editing my publication, working on law review, oh and studying for the MPRE a little...

Transitions Are Difficult.

Posted on May 11, 2009
Law school is, at its heart, about transitions.  First, one transitions from college  into law school itself, and from there into a profession. The challenge, to my mind, is not simply in learning the law, or even in learning how to discover the law, or how to think like a lawyer...

UC San Diego School of Law? Maybe? Possibly? Wait, what are we talking about?

Posted on April 28, 2009
So, for years (read: decades) there have been various discussions, rumors, and proposals about the possibility of the University of California, San Diego opening a law school.  The most common version is that UC San Diego would completely take over California Western School of Law to become “UCSD School of Law”...

Summer Vacation - Swine Flu Edition

Posted on April 27, 2009
Well, what an eventful semester!  As I’m sure you’ve noticed, this website has gone through an incomplete redesign.  My former host/server exited the industry, and so went the original version of this website.  Fortunately, I was able to recover a few of my old posts through cache’d web-pages...

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Ok, and we’re back.

Posted on April 25, 2009
JollyLawger.com is back online.  Anyone still out there?  Hello?  Anyone?

Back In the Swing of Things (1/9/2008) (irony post)

Posted on April 25, 2009
Well, it?s the start of a brand new semester at school, and so far so good. Most of my classes seem interesting, and my law review editing assignment for the week is interesting. Funny story about that assignment. I wrote my note last semester, sadly I was no picked for publication, oh well, it happens right? [...

Seasonal Adverse Possession.

Posted on April 25, 2009
I posed a question to my 1L tutants earlier in the question regarding adverse possession of a piece of property by two seasonal users unaware of each other. I posed the question, and then refused to answer it. Apparently this was annoying to some of the students...

This Is Halloween (10/31/08)

Posted on April 25, 2009
As many of you non-law student readers might imagine, the average law student is in fact a gigantic nerd. I have never met a group of people with as large a per capita amount of Star Trek fans. Today in Criminal Procedure our professor invited us to dress up in costume, with the promise of [...

Bachelor Party Mayhem (10/27/08)

Posted on April 25, 2009
This weekend was my bachelor party. My fiance and I had long drawn out discussions about what would and would not happen at my bachelor party. For instance, on the issues of strippers we had a very large disagreement. She thought I should have strippers, I politely declined...

I’m Getting Married and I’m Really Happy. (10/22/08)

Posted on April 25, 2009
In nine (9) days I will be married. I?m very excited to finally make an honest woman out of my fiance. In addition to all of the nice state and federal benefits that come with getting hitched, it is nice to just be getting married. I know that?s atrocious grammar, but the mere fact that [...

Does Law School Change You?

Posted on April 25, 2009
The other day I was asked by a prospective student whether I felt that law school had changed me, and if so how. I felt it was a fair question so I told her the honest answer and in the process probably scared her away from all law schools ever. I think that law school does [...

Apparently I’m Certifiable!

Posted on April 25, 2009
Today I received a very nice e-mail from the State bar informing me that I can now stand up in Court and talk (as long as I have an attorney hovering over my shoulder, and client consent). I am excited to finally be certified. I?ve always wanted to be in Court, and to represent people, [...

Mid-Term-Itis.

Posted on April 25, 2009
I have a mid-term this semester. It is in Crim. Pro. I do not like mid-terms. I do not like Crim. Pro. As you can imagine, I am ever-so-thrilled at the combination thereof. I have adopted a stringent study regimen for the upcoming examination. Today I was quite productive...

Way to go Connecticut! (10/08)

Posted on April 25, 2009
Well, with less than a month before California voters decide whether to strip marital rights from some people while confirming them for others, Connecticut?s Supreme Court has held that the civil union laws in Connecticut do not go far enough in preserving equality for homosexuals...

So You Think You Can Dance (4/20/2008)

Posted on April 19, 2009
Because I am such an awesome paragon of studiousness I am watching the tryouts for So You Think You Can Dance. I really enjoy the show. I think that dancing is amazing. If I could re-do my childhood, I think I would have taken up dancing when I was still young and limber...

The Grasshopper and the Palm (5/18/2008)

Posted on April 19, 2009
Living in an apartment with no backyard is always a bummer for someone who loves nature and greenery as much as Katie and I do. We have a nine square feet large balcony where I?ve put out a few plants. I have a lily, a mexican sage, and a phoenix palm...

Does Law School Change You? (5/15/2008)

Posted on April 19, 2009
I?m one of those big nerds on campus who give tours to prospective students (it beats studying). ?Does law school change you?? is a question that pops up a decent amount. Through talking to the people who ask it, I?ve found that most people who are in relationships ask that question, where most single people [...

Summer Vacation* (5/01/2008)

Posted on April 19, 2009
Well, my long glorious summer vacation* has started. Today I woke up, got dressed, and went to Court. I think Katie was a little concerned that I went to Court today considering that our Federal Courthouse got pipebombed over the weekend. Fortunately, I don?t work at the Federal Courthouse, I work at the Domestic Violence [...

And Done. (4/23/2008)

Posted on April 19, 2009
Well, 1L is over. It?s pretty exciting to be done with the first year of law school. Our last exam was Torts. It was open everything. The upside means that I probably did really really well. The downside is, so did everyone else. It was a racehorse exam...

And Then There Was One.

Posted on April 19, 2009
Yesterday was the hardest exam I have ever taken in my life. I think that a good number of my classmates joined me in feeling completely shellshocked by yestersday?s Civ Pro II exam. I know that there were several people who struggled with the time limit in the exam...

Study Day Civ Pro II

Posted on April 19, 2009
My Civ Pro II final is tomorrow at 8a.m. I will be very glad to be finished with this course. I have very much enjoyed both of my Civ Pro professors this year. But Civ Pro as a subject is the driest class in school. Civ Pro is essentially the Rule Books for anything that [...

Half-Time

Posted on April 19, 2009
Property final over! I felt decent about this final. Last semester property was my strongest class, and I figure it will be again this semester. Having a final on Saturday is weird. It?s not as bad as you might think, because when finals roll around, the day of the week stops mattering...

Study Day Property

Posted on April 19, 2009
I work up today around 7:00a.m. I spent the rest of the day at my computer refining my little one page (double sided) cheat sheet. Trying to get the margins as small as printingly possible, the font as small as I could make print legibly. I?ve also been making sure I really go over the [...

One Down Three To Go.

Posted on April 19, 2009
Today I woke up at 5:19a.m. in order to actually be awake by the time testing started. In order to accomplish this I went to bed at 8:30pm last night. Surprisingly I actually fell asleep pretty quickly. Normally, the night before an exam I toss and turn and ?pre-game? the exam to death...

In 24 hours? I will be finished with (k)ontracts forever.

Posted on April 18, 2009
Tomorrow, Thursday, is the first final of second semester. It happens to be (k)ontracts and is closed book and closed notes. This class happens to be the one that everyone does well on from a raw score perspective. So, it?s one of the most challenging tests...

WestLaw and Lexis killed my writing ability.

Posted on April 18, 2009
I?ve noticed recently that I?ve been writing some qualifiers in all CAPS in e-mails. AND, OR, IF, THEN. I couldn?t figure out what was going on until this morning when I was doing a Terms and Connectors search on WestLaw and realized that I?ve used capitals for the connectors in order to see at a [...

What I’ve Learned About Law School (Or At Least Cal Western) Thus Far (1L Recap) (4/12/2008).

Posted on April 18, 2009
Well, 1L year is over (I don?t count finals as part of the year). Law school was in many ways exactly what I was hoping it would be, but in other ways very different from what I was expecting. All in all, I?m really glad that I chose California Western...

Things You Don’t Want to Hear on the Last Day of Class. (4/10/2008)

Posted on April 18, 2009
Faculty Support called me today and informed me that my Civ Pro professor contacted them to let me know that my ?Answer? for our pleading?s assignment wasn?t in my folder. This was annoying because I had in fact turned it in over a month ago. The pleading assignment is worth about a sixth of our grade...

Today is the First Day of the Rest Of Your Life (4/10/2008).

Posted on April 18, 2009
Today is the last day of my 1L year classes. Finals start next week, but after today, no more property lectures, no more torts outlines, no more (k)ontracts, and no more Federal Civil Procedure EVER. This year has been interesting in ways I would have not imagined law school to be interesting...

And So To School… (4/8/2008).

Posted on April 18, 2009
Today I woke up at 8:15a.m. I went to class. Changed my brief some more. Turned it in at 10:05a.m. I can?t change it anymore. I think my last minute additions help. I took out some of my ?stylistic repetition? and put in one more sentence of explanation of precedent...

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