Man of Steele
Posting from a comment below by John Steele, with minor edits:
"On August 4th, at 1:30 pm, in San Jose, I will be on a panel with legal aid lawyers dealing with hypos on the ethics of that practice area. I can bring along three Boalties. The presentation might be most interesting to students headed toward the direct services end of public interest law, but any Boalties who are interested in attending can shoot me an email. It will be a realistic glimpse on what those practice areas are really like. If we have more volunteers than slots, we can hold a lottery. I can be reached at john-dot-steele-at-fr-dot-com."
"On August 4th, at 1:30 pm, in San Jose, I will be on a panel with legal aid lawyers dealing with hypos on the ethics of that practice area. I can bring along three Boalties. The presentation might be most interesting to students headed toward the direct services end of public interest law, but any Boalties who are interested in attending can shoot me an email. It will be a realistic glimpse on what those practice areas are really like. If we have more volunteers than slots, we can hold a lottery. I can be reached at john-dot-steele-at-fr-dot-com."
posted by Armen Adzhemyan at 11:35 PM
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Does anyone know where in San Jose this is happening or who the panel is addressing?
It's a continuing legal education meeting sponsored by the Legal Services Section of the Santa Clara County Bar Association. I understand that attendees will be public interest lawyers from a variety of direct services organizations. I don't have the precise location yet, but will leave another comment when I do.
Suggested article for first Boalt Briefs:
LexisNexis popularity stumbles at Boalt as it replaces beloved Daneal Grotenhouse with unknownt Amy Dhall, but because Westlaw loyally retains Mark Cygnet, Lexis remains the research tool of choice on campus.
i thought boalt breif articles were supposed to be funny?
Exactly -- "supposed to be."
Test prep might be the best scam going! The first step is to find over-eager, type A personality, middle-class and upper-middle class kids and offer them a script to success. Considering all the prep that goes into the SAT, LSAT, and all the rest how many law school graduates are going to turn down a course that teaches you the sum total of [insert state here] law?
So the good folks at barbri play to the group's collective neurosis and create a cult where they insist that the bar process might be the worst experience humanly imaginable but then pat you on the head and say things like "Don't panic . . . Trust the program." And we are grateful because they supply us with 8 books or so, two of which they tell us not to read, and give us the privilege of watching a daily video of a professor reading from a prepared outline with the exception of Cherminsky.
The true irony is this: The demands that are placed on students make the whole prep process completely superfluous. The Barbri folks tell you to study five hours a day while attending class and ten hours on the weekend ('give or take,' they say . . . 'and sometimes you'll have time for a movie'). For the last week, I was supposed to have been putting in 12 hrs a day. The sad thing is there are probably thousands of law school graduates right now, beating themselves up for only putting in 10 hrs today. With that kind of commitment, Barbri should be able to get law grads to pass the medical boards.
[Another spooky thing, because the vast majority of people who take the bar are barbri-trained, that has serious implications for how the exam is graded. Ah, the wonders of standardized testing].
Anyway, it's how the game is played, and I don't begrudge anyone for participating in it. In point of fact, I'm upset that I can't think of a similar scheme to prey on the next generation of overprepared over-achievers!
Professor Steele,
Since you're a regular reader, I thought I'd take the opportunity to ask you about one of the more popular stories on the internet (in which you play a prominent role). Specifically, Tucker Max, the author of the story, alleges you fired him from a summer associate position when you were at Fenwick & West in Palo Alto. Max asserts that Fenwick associates told him you fired him because the partnership feared he would sleep with a particular partner, thus opening the firm up to a sexual harrassment claim.
Any truth to the story?
You can find the story here:
http://www.tuckermax.com/archives/entries/the_now_infamous_tucker_max_charity_auction_debacle.phtml
I suggest you just walk up to him and ask him live.
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