iyhbyu, Look son, we have this thing called an alumni association where graduates gather and wisdom and experience is passed down. Some of the people I mentor are even current students. None, I am pleased to say, is as chutzpahdik as you.
Obviously I know that most exams are done on laptops these days. That’s why I said “blue book” (or the electronic equivalent).” I am well aware that many of you “millenials” have lost the ability to use pen and paper which is why some of us were howling with laughter a couple of years ago when the Board of Law Examiners lost the electronic answers to the essay portion of the bar exam. Indeed some answers have never been found. Tell me, what do you do when a judge asks you to draft an order on a lined form and hand it up? Oh, wait, you’ve never represented anyone. Yet you’re so wise.
The reason Prof. Dershowitz’s opinion is valid is because he is a) a professor at Harvard Law School; b) from a frum background (BTA, Young Israel of Borough Park); and c)went to college. Those are the same reasons I cited Mukasey (Ramaz, Kehilath Jeshurin).
I repeat that your statements:
I would first of all like to say that if anything you have a slight advantage because of your analysis skills (and this was told to me by a frum professor), and you should not worry about any lack of writing skills because the style of writing that is taught in undergrad is much, much different from what is required in a legal setting.
are utter and complete nonsense. I say this from the background of being a practicing attorney.
I am very happy you did well your first term. You have five more left. Don’t take anything for granted.
Health, An LLM is very helpful in the practice of tax law but in other fields is generally is not necessary for anyone other than law professors and is even optional for them. Contrary to some of the tipshus posted here, an LLM does not rehabilitate a JD from a low-ranked law school. You can find numerous columns stating this by Ann Israel who writes the job hunting advice column in the New York Law Journal.
Popa, so far the best thing you have said here is “I don’t know what lawyers do.” On that, you are absolutely correct. And that’s the only thing.