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If you are not looking to attend a top tier law school, it doesn’t really matter what undergraduate degree you get and who issues it as long as the institution is accredited. Your LSAT and possibly an interview will make the entrance decision.
Currently, there are loads of empty seats at American non-top tier law schools. Being an attorney is not what it used to be in terms of income, advancement, etc. It has changed drastically in the past 30 years.I have hired associates who have BTLs, pre-law degrees (whatever that really means) and a BS in IT. I am more interested in where they attended law school, where they interned, what courses they took in law school (and grades earned) AND that they have passed the state Bar Exam. Except for my children and spouses, I do not hire anyone who has not passed the Bar Exam and is licensed.
If you expect to earn a paycheck while studying for the Bar Exam and learning on the job, best bet is to start with a government agency (DA, etc) who uses tax dollars to underwrite your cost,Joseph has posted in the past that he is employed by the New York City Public School System.
In the US, government regulations (USDA) will not allow the Milk labeling of non-dairy chocolate.
There are also state Consumer Protection and Truth in Advertising rules/regulations.laws that apply in some jurisdictions@5ish
You are confusing slander and defamation
Slander is oral and may be defamatory
Libel is slander that is reduced to writing and spread (published) to at least one other by almost any means and also may be defamatory in nature.Truth is a defense to both charges.
There is a stricter standard for proving defamation to public figures, there must be a malicious intent to cause harm.Haven’t taught Tort law in 25 years, but you posted a common misconception most incoming first year students have/had.
CTL’s biggest legal definition pet peeve:
Virtually all contracts are verbal, some are oral, some are written.
Example of the rare non-verbal contract: Auctioneer asks who who’ll bid and a paddle or hand is raised. That non-verbal agreement forms a contract,NO….
In CT and MA Big Y supermarket chain removed all self checkouts 4 years ago.
I will not use a self-checkout if the store also has cashiers. I will not help the store eliminate jobs and they do not give me a discount for doing their labor.The closest gas station to my home (s blocks) is FULL service. It is consistently the same price at self serve stations in the neighborhood. We use the full service gas.
@Lucy
Trying to spin doesn’t change the facts. I called you out on your inaccuracy.
The Republicans, a new party, having won their first National election in Nov 1860, showed their true colors and have acted that way since.@Ubiquitin
The document in this case is Lakewhut’s post
I can only reply to his written words, what he thinks or meant to post is not evident@Lucy
WRONG, time to go back to 11th grade US History class and pay attention this time.
Andrew Johnson of Tennessee was elected VP with Republican Abraham Lincoln in Nov 1860. Johnson, a Democrat was a Senator and did not resign his position when Tennessee left the Union and joined Confederacy.
After Lincoln’s assassination and becoming President, Johnson became the full time target of the Republican Congress.
He was impeached by the House and survived the trial in the Senate by one vote.@Coffeeaddict
I was referring to Buttigieg. His 15 minutes of fame is with the media, not the party faithful. He will have flamed out by the end of superTuesday.
The NY mayor is not even getting 15 minutes of fame. he is maneuvering for a shot at the VP slot or cabinet position, in exchange for the few delegates he might accumulate@Coffeeaddict
It is my belief that Senator G and Mayor B have no traction and no chance of being nominated. In 2016 both parties ran NY residents and it didn’t work well. I don’t expect a repeat of white male NY Republican being opposed by a white female NY Democrat in 2020.@lakewhut
Stop posting inaccuracies and I’ll stop calling you out. Lawyers make their living by exposing inaccuracies and failure to follow the written words of laws and contracts. . It doesn’t matter what you meant to say you are bound by what is contained in the four corners of the document.@klugeryid
President Obama was President. That is the reality. If Lakewhut had written that if Mr. Obama had been Prime Minister in a parliamentary system I would not have called him out.The first two debates are limited to 10 candidates each
According to the DNC rules, candidates can qualify for the first two debates by either:Receiving at least 1 percent support in three DNC-approved polls. Those could be in early state polls — Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina or Nevada — or in national polls between the beginning of January 2019 and the two-week mark before the first debate (a candidate could fall short but then qualify for the second debate if they meet the polling threshold two weeks before the July debate).
Receiving donations from at least 65,000 unique donors with a minimum of 200 donors in at least 20 different states.
Each debate will include no more than 10 candidates, chosen at random from the pool of those who qualify. Should more than 20 total candidates qualify, preference will be given to those who meet both criteria for polling and donations.Rules have not been set for any debates after the first two.
I spoke to a DNC member at our town’s Memorial Day ceremonies. She told me that no more than 16 are likely to qualify for the debates based on current polls and fundraising activity. By the time additional debates come along a half dozen of the 23 will likely have dropped out of the race due to lack of interest or funds.Today, I received an email from the Female US Sentator from NY asking for contributions from all registered Democrats in my family, as she has not met the polling criteria or fundraising minimums to qualify for the debates.
I hit the delete button.@lakewhut
WRONG as usual.
In countries with both a President and a Parliament, it is the Prime Minister who can lose the office if the governing party doesn’t survive a no confidence vote. The President serves a set term and election for that office is not concurrent with Parliamentary elections.
If the shul always runs out of hot water, having an urn that can only serve half of those present it is time for a member to step up and buy a second urn.
But, then what would you complain about?@Joseph my favorite troll
#1 This poll was for Democrats, I don’t know why you and inserted your selves here uninvited, you are like a crasher at a kiddush#2 I never used the word Florida. Bush lost the nationwide popular vote. The court decision gave him an Electoral College victory. Why try to argue with facts?
@Participant
I said punish Blue States, I did not say punish Democrats (don’t put words in my mouth),Mass, CT, NY, NJ, CA are loaded with people who pay more than 10K annually in property tax and state income and sales taxes who are adversely affected by the new tax laws. The changes increased the CTL family tax bill by more than 25K for 2018
CA is suing for already allocated rail funds Trump has withheld
@AviK
If Trump is still in office and runs for reelection I predict another close election. There country is very evenly divided going back to the 2000 Bush Gore election. With Bush losing popular vote and the court giving him an electoral college victory.
Trump will lose the Blue states no matter who is the Democrat candidate. Blue state voters are fed up with his retribution for their votes in 2016. Starting with an income tax plan made to punish us. Reneging on already allocated federal funds, etc.I attended a Dem State Central committee meeting yesterday and there is an agreement among the members to not participate in any campaigning for primary candidates based on digging up dirt from the distant past, We have agreed as a whole to push the attributes of candidates. The opposing part will be the mudslingers. Wish this was the case in all states.
Thank you Joseph…………….
after three years of Mrs. CTL’s illnesses and surgeries, B”H she is on the mend and I am dealing with my own deferred health issues.
Hand surgery completed last week
I see the ankle/foot surgeon tomorrow
Opthamologist Tuesday for cataract consult
Internist Friday……………………………………..
Putting Medicare premiums to work@Coffeeaddict
4 years ago (IIRC) there were only 16 seeking the Republican nomination@Joseph
the current NYC mayor has no real national or international experience
We are currently suffering with a President who hails from NYC, not interested in another one
The Dems need a candidate who is more geographically acceptable than NY/NE/NJ
Guess that eliminates, DeBlasio, Sanders, Warren, Booker…….
I think Buttegig and O’Rorke are too youngExcuse typos and spelling please. My hands are not working well today, had hand surgery on Weds and still healing
@coffeeaddict
I posted ask me again when it’s actually primary season. I am not bothering investigating all 23 because I don’t expect to have to choose between them on primary day in CT.
I would not vote for DiBlasio, Harris, O’Rourke. I can’t even name all 23 off the top of my head.Still are.
Victorinox makes them in assorted colors. They are commonly called tomato knives, used to cut fruits and for vegetables with soft skin. Retails for $7.
I have them in colors for meat, milk and dairy in both chometz and Pesach kitchens.@Joseph
Bernie would not be my first choice of the 23. But all speculation at this point is a waste of time. I will see how it shakes out before the CT primary and state convention. I will be a delegateAsk me a year from now when we have a list of candidates who are on the primary ballot. Many of them he 23 will have dropped out of the race by then.
I am not committing my time and or dollars to any of the candidates at this point.Avraham,
You are confusing the USDA standard for calling something dairy with the halachic definition of milchige. They are not the same.
Sometimes a product labeled non-dairy will have an OU-D on the label.
The hechsher information is for Jews who care. The non-dairy labeling us for the general population@Rebbetzin
I’m glad I’m officially a Senior CitizenRebbitzen
WRONG AGAINConservative Judaism had its birth in Germany and Hungary in the mid 1800s. Research Rabbi Z Frankel and the Jewish Seminary of Breslau. Take off your American self-reference criteria blinders. Both Refirm Judaism and Conservative Judaism had their births in Germany. LONG before people were driving cars to shul on Shabbos in rural America. Long before people were driving cars anywhere,,,,,,,,
@Neville
Are you living in the 1950s or Apartheid era South Africa?
Colored? That term went out of common speech decades ago.
It wasn’t ‘Orientals’ giving up girls for adoption, it was the Chinese. Only China had the official one child policy.We only went that route after domestic adoption route failed. We still terribly miss the infant Black female we fostered from 4 days old until 16 months when she was taken from us and given to. Black family for adoption.
So many of your assumptions are wrong.
@Rebbetzin
Domestic adoption was not a viable option at the time. CT Dept if Social Services directives at the time called for:
#1 placement of children in same race families if possible
#2 no placement in families that already had 2 or more children
#3 placement in same religion families if possible
#4 no placement in families where both parents were older than 40Thus it was not an option. We had fostered a black female from birth and attempted the adoption and she was removed by DCF when a black family wanted her
So we went the international route
@Joseph
Don’t quote form the OED, you and I both live in the USA, not Britain.
The use of the word changed ion the 20th century and we are not 1/5th of the way through the 21st century, get with the programNice try, but no cigar
I explained Oriental applied to things, not people and gave the example of the rug. Your medicine would be Oriental…correct use of the word
As for your forebears fro Russia, the Pale was in Europe, not Asia. In general Jews did not live west of the Urals, unless banished to Siberia as punishment or in a 25 year conscription in the Tsar’s army. Yes, there were a few exceptions.I have the Russian Imperial passport my paternal side used to come to America. It was issued in what is now Belarus…EUROPE.
The name of the train is ORIENT , no ‘al’ Agatha Christies is long dead, no one cam tell her to change anything!
Your response was pure foolishness (or ignorant) and proved that you are insensitive and uncaring@Joseph
The short reason is that our then only daughter wanted a sister and after 9 years of no additional children, this solved the problem.
More than that is more personal than belongs in the CR@Neville
You are WRONG
The change from Oriental to Asian, didn’t come from white liberals, read the following:
“American English
” American English speakers consider the term “Oriental” to be a pejorative and disparaging term when used to describe a person[1]. John Kuo Wei Tchen, director of the Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program and Institute at New York University, said the basic criticism of the term developed in the U.S. in the 1970s. Tchen has said: “With the U.S.A. anti-war movement in the ’60s and early ’70s, many Asian Americans identified the term ‘Oriental’ with a Western process of racializing Asians as forever opposite ‘others’.”[19] In a 2009 American press release related to legislation aimed at removing the term “oriental” from official documents of the State of New York, Governor David Paterson said: “The word ‘oriental’ does not describe ethnic origin, background or even race; in fact, it has deep and demeaning historical roots”.[20]In 2016, President Barack Obama signed legislation striking the word from federal law.[21]”
President Obama, is mixed race, not white, Director Tchen is not white.
I was asked not to use the term by a Japanese math professor I had in college in 1972.When I use Asian to refer to people I am referring to all East Asian ans Southeast Asian people from many more countries than you list,
When referring to Indo-Paks, Bengladeshis and Ceylonese I use the term Southern Asian, Southwest Asian refers to people from traditional Arab and/or Islamic lands.
Central Asian refers to the ‘real’ Caucasians (those from beyond the Caucasus Mountains in the former USSR and nearby regions@Rebbitzen
#1 Oriental refers to objects NOT people. You have Oriental Rugs, but Asian people.
This is a pet peeve of mine, its use is bigoted and ignorant.
#2 I have posted before that youngest CTL daughter was born and adopted in China (at birth). On the advice of our Rav we adopted a child of another race to avoid all problems of mamzerut later on.
Raised FFB, she always considered herself Jewish first, then American. She never checked race on forms, leaving it blank.She had no problem with shidduchim, and was in high demand. She has a BSRN, a MS in accounting and a JD, admitted to both NY and CT bars and came with high earning potential, no student debt, etc.
Not once was her race raised as an issue or objection to a date, she turned suitors away, Mrs. CTL and I turned golddiggers away. In the end, a female Jewish law professor fixed her up with a frum male law student (he attended yeshiva in Brooklyn before college and law school) and it was a fine match. Both sets of the parents were thrilled with the choice. They both now work in my law firm. Race was not and is not a issue.
@DovidBT
actually, the OP posted “NOT” watching the games………………..
Thus my comment about radio. I follow baseball and listen to the games, I don’t watch themThere is a wonderful invention called radio. I listen to baseball, I don’t watch it.
My Oma was uncomfortable with my Yekke mother marrying my Litvak father for more than 50 years until she died. She referred to Litvaks as peasants from the east.
I would have problems with any of my children or grandchildren (my kids are marrieds) marrying anyone whose ideology opposes the State if Israel.
@AviK
I don’t think any of the three elders you mentioned are like AOC
They have learned how to play the game, she is a newbie making waves and outrageous statements. She doesn’t represent me, only those in her Congressional District.
Feinstein represents only the residents of California
Pelosi has additional power as Speaker of the House and is a pragmatist. She seen an impeachment attempt would be futile and a waste of resources,
Biden, holds no office. I like him very much (having met him numerous times), but would like a younger candidate this coming election. I am very much undecided as to who I’ll support in 2020. I also have not decided if I want to be a delegate to the National Convention, but I’ll be one to my state convention.
I live in a Republican Town when it comes to voting for state and national offices, but the local Republican leaders I know are embarrassed by and do not support Trump. A number of them have intimated they could support a Biden led ticket if the VP choice is not radical@Kluger
With proper fences, locked gates and swimming pool alarms AND PARENTAL SUPERVISION, children should not be able to get into the pool on their own. We have 8 foot high fences (building code only requires 5 feet) that are alarmed. The self closing gates have locks that require a key and a combination, and there are alarms that sound if anything more than 15 pounds enters the water.
When SIL’s FIL was niftar and there was a yerusha, one of the first expenditures was for a swimming pool of their own. In this case the safety concern wasn’t the issue, it was money.@AvraminMD
“you demonstrate that you are intentionally provoking a certain type of response.”
No, I post how I feel and what I believe. My comment is that I find the attacks amusing. It is not limited to the CR.
Jealousy shows its ugly face in many ways.
My eldest brother’s wife comes from modest means. When they were engaged 50 years ago, My late mother asked the future DIL to go pick a sterling silver pattern for Shabbos and Yuntif use. The future machataynester opened her mouth and said: we don’t like silver, who needs something that needs polishing, pick stainless steel. When mom and future DIL got to Fortunoff’s, the young lady made a beeline for the sterling dept, not stainless. She told my mother that she had been trained from birth to say she hated sterling and other expensive things, because her parents could not afford them. She also told my brother she didn’t like diamonds, but when my mother gave me her engagement diamond for Mrs. CTL SIL was seething with jealousy, claimed it belonged to her since I was not the eldest son. My mother told her she blew her chance when she said she didn’t like diamonds. So, when my mother was niftara, her will did not leave a single diamond for this girl…all the other females in the family received the stones that had passed down to my mother.
My wife’s younger sister said she’d never have an in-ground swimming pool, too dangerous for children, but has brought her children to ours from the time they could walk. Just an excuse, they could not afford to have one put in, so they swam by us or my MIL.@lakewhut
You don’t know how it works, you make the false assumption that if more expensive homes are built the value of existing homes will rise and the taxes on the existing homes go up.
I have already explained that a top of the line home can fall in value when much more expensive homes with additional features are built in the same neighborhood.
A rising time doesn’t raise all ships, it sinks some@lakewhut
Your ignorance never ceases to amaze me
AOC is one member of the 435 elected House of Representatives
Warren, Harris and Sanders are 3 of the 100 member Senate
Senator Harris has held elected office since 2004
Senator Warren is nearing 70 years old and is a former Republican.
Senator Sanders is NOT a member of The Democratic party, although he caucuses with them. He joined the party in order to seek the Presidential nomination in 2015-16, but resigned after not getting the nomination and is again a registered Independent in Vermont.Waters is not the future of my party, she is 80 years old and has held elected legislative office since 1976 (43 years)
I don’t think the future of the party is 70 and 80 year old membersThe first term Representatives, may be the future, or may be an anomaly. Let’s see if they are reelected and gain power through seniority.
I was a delegate to the 2016 convention and these were not players@AviK
You are full of misbelief“Democrats like AOC would take away CTL’s house and give it to seventeen illegal immigrant families.”
Communists take away personal property, Socialists tax it to provide for the populace.The Congresswoman is but one of 435, has no seniority and you ascribe her far too much power and influence.
@1
Try 50,000 residentsYour ignorance is amazing, after you study land use, real estate and local government, then you can make intelligent and accurate statements. Right now you pull inaccuracies out of the air and post lies as truth.
@klugeryid
I was wondering how long it would take for someone to pick on the reference to a Harry Chapin folk song form the 1970s.
It’s about a truck driver with a load of 30,000 pounds of Bananas who loses his brakes while coming down hill entering Scranton, PA.For those who have driven the interstate to Scranton, as I have done a number of times, it is in a valley with a long and steep descent to enter
@1
Wrong again.
If I build a large and expensive home, my neighbors’ taxes do not rise.
Property tax mill rates are set for the municipality and applied based on government formula for assessed/market value.
The value of the other homes does not increase because a more expensive home is built on the block. In fact the market value/assessed value of what was once the premier house on the block may fall, leading to lower taxes.
Example:
There are 8 building lots on a street. 4 houses exist, all 4 bedroom 3 bath, 9 room colonials on 1 acre lots with 2 car garages, central air. Market value $550,000 each. 4 New Mcmansions are built on the remaining lots: 6 Bedrooms, 5 baths 12 rooms,3 car garages, central air, granite kitchens, built in swimming pools, They sell immediately at $925,000 each.
The existing houses will see their market value fall 10% because they don’t have the features of the new larger homes on the block, Their taxes will also fall.I spent many years in Town Government, including 4 years on the Board of Assessment Appeals Newer, bigger and better can drive down the prices of existing housing stock and then their taxes fall as well.
It’s always fun to watch those who don’t have or can’t afford, make fun or find fault with those who have or can afford.
As long as those who have pay for things themselves and are not partaking of community charity/resources (such as tuition assistance for their children) it is no one else’s business.@lakwhut
Mrs. CTL is an accomplished designer/builder/realtor
She does want to call attention to her designs and work. Our home is part of her portfolio.
The main part of our home was built in 1803. The extensions and additions she designed and we built are used to show what people can do to expand historic homes in our quaint New England Community in a harmonious fashion. She has won awards for her work. Better a Mrs. CTL remodel/addition to a 200 year old home than a teardown and a cookie cutter vinyl clad McMansion in its place,@AviK
I agree that children should learn to be considerate of others, but that doesn’t mean they have to share bedrooms. Our teenagers would have never played music aloud or held telephone conversations in the bedroom areas after the younger children had been put to bed.
Much of what you describe is applicable and necessary to apartment living or when houses are built so close as in sections of Brooklyn that you can almost reach across the property lines from one kitchen into the house next door. Consideration is different when you live in single family homes on acre plus lots in small towns.
You and your brother were/are only three years apart and living together would be far easier than for our girls 9 years apart. I’m 8 years younger than my next older brother, Mrs. CTL is 15 years older than her younger sister (with no boys in between). Sharing rooms in this situation with no economic need makes little sense.
BTW, when I was a child and went to visit my grandparents in Brooklyn or the Bronx, we were instructed to remove our shoes at the apartment door and don soft soled bedroom slippers so we’d not disturb the tenants in the apartments below. We only played quite board games in the apartments and went to the park if we wanted to be loud.
Here in the country, we have no neighbors in the building. The house on one side of us in 250 feet away, the house on the other side we built for my late MIL and my youngest daughter and her husband live there now with our youngest grandchild. Our kids didn’t have to go to the park to run, jump and make noise. We have several acres of fenced yard with sports and swimming pool. That said we know sound carries and they always had to be inside by 8 PM, unless it was an organized Motzei Shabbos party on the grounds.
It is just a different lifestyle when you don’t live in a congested area.