Ex-CTLawyer

ADHD is commonly diagnosed so that schools will receive state special education funds.

@NevilleChaimBerlin
I don’t know why you tagged me in your post of May 20 2:18PM….
I had not posted in this thread. Perhaps you meant to tag CT Rebbe

As someone whose children have been out of yeshiva for decades and handled tuition by just write check….
Please explain what an admission card is, and why it might be stealing?
Thanks

@Millhouse
we weren’t talking about Germans in Frankfurt understanding Yiddish, we were talking about Swiss in 1970
Stop trying to start arguments about nothing

You had nothing to add to my post and trying to prove others wrong by changing facts and situations is obnoxious.
In the future please scroll on by my posts as I shall do with anything you write

@Joseph
“Yiddish is the language of Ashkenazic Jewry.”
Wrong……………….
Yiddish WAS the common language linking much of Ashkenazic Jewry.
BUT it wasn’t the language of my maternal German forebears. My Oma always referred to Yiddish as a gutter language.
It wasn’t the language of much of Hungarian Jewry
My Litvish great grandparents and great great grandparents spoke Polish, Russian, Lithuanian and Yiddish.
My paternal grandparents born in NYC in the 1890s did not speak Yiddish. My father A”H born in Brooklyn 100 years ago and myself born in CT more than 65 years ago only learned Yiddish for business reasons. My siblings some as old as 75 do not speak Yiddish.

“There are those who speak Yiddish that don’t know English well (or even at all.)”
If they live in the USA, it’s about time they learn to read, write and speak English. That sentiment does not apply just to Hispanics (as the right wing complains).

“Yiddish is a unifying language for Jews from different countries and national languages (i.e. English, French, Ivrit, German, etc.)”
A completely meaningless point for an AMERICAN event. and as I’ve stated many times it is NOT a unifying language for German Jews. OMA never felt unified with the ‘peasants from the east’ who could not speak ‘real German’
My 70 year old sister went to seminary in Switzerland in the 1960s. Those girls who spoke Yiddish had a very hard time dealing with the locals, shopping, using transportation, banks, post office, etc. She learned German from our Great Grandmother and had no problem.
I learned Litvish Yiddish, I haven’t got a clue what most Galitzianers are saying when speaking Yiddish, especially when they substitute the P sound for B.

My forbears chose to leave Europe for America 150 years ago. Our unity with fellow Jews was belief and practice, not Yiddish.

If you want to attend an event that has almost all speeches in Yiddish, fine, I would not enjoy it. I’d mail my contribution and not attend

@lakewhut
Please don’t put words in my mouth.
The OP is asking about Law School Admissions, and who you know will not generally get you admitted. That said, your name, such as Kennedy, Rockefeller, Bush might move you up on the list. Legacy admissions are far more prevalent in undergraduate admissions that professional school.

I spoke about who you know aiding in bring in clients to the firm.
OP says he wants to practice corporate law, he would not generally be involved in bringing clients.

Unlike most jobs, what you know is determined by the licensing exam (Bar Exam).
If you pass, you are qualified to start working, much of what you’ll do has to be learned on the job, it isn’t taught in law school.

For example, I teach as an adjunct at a law school in Massachusetts. They have a completely different court system than CT. Civil suits less than xxx dollars and criminal cases with penalties less than one year in jail are in District Court. Bigger cases are in Superior Court. CT has no District Courts, everything starts at the Superior Ct level. A new lawyer coming out of Harvard Law working in CT would have to learn our court system and filing requirements. The CTL firm is in the Family Law, Wills, Trusts and Estates Business, In CT Divorces are part of Superior Court business, In Mass they are part of Probate Court.

I’m also licensed in NY. Your basic trial court is called Supreme Court, in 40+ other states, that’s the name of the highest Appellate Court. You have Surrogate’s Court, similar but not the same as Probate Court in other states.
Most small firms don’t want to bear the expense of a new associate having to learn how it works in the firms’ state, sop will look for graduates of state law schools, or those who have interned in the state. Easy in NY, but CT only has three Law schools: Yale, UCONN, and Quinnipiac, so most applicants come from out of state schools. Our firm has work in MA, CT, NY and FL so I look for associates who are admitted to those Bars first.

I currently have 2 application from graduates of UMICH who are following spouses going to Medical School at Yale. Impressive resumes, but training cost is too high, knowing they’ll leave withing 3 years when spouse gets an intern match out of state, so I’ll probably hire local grads for the two opening I have this year.

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,

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

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.

@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

@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

@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.

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.

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?

@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

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

@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 young

Excuse typos and spelling please. My hands are not working well today, had hand surgery on Weds and still healing

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.

Ask 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.

@Rebbetzin
I’m glad I’m officially a Senior Citizen

@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.

@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 program

@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