Boalties in the News
Above the Law has the story of the husband and wife (Boalt '98) duo from Orange County arrested for planting drugs in the car of a volunteer at their son's elementary school. It's never easy to hear about Boalties doing stupid crap like this. So until proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt, I'm going to assume that this was all part of a $1 bet by a pair of sibling brokers to see if they could turn two lawyers to a life of crime.
UPDATE: I don't even know how to pass along the latest developments in this case with a straight face, namely Mrs. Easter wrote a book last year about committing "the perfect crime." This is almost turning into one of those DirectTV ads: "When you're a bored OC housewife writing about the perfect crime, you start to believe in your own delusions. When you believe in your own delusions, you get into blood feuds with elementary school PTA presidents. When you get into blood feuds elementary school PTA presidents, you plant drugs in other people's car. DON'T PLANT DRUGS IN OTHER PEOPLE'S CAR."
UPDATE: I don't even know how to pass along the latest developments in this case with a straight face, namely Mrs. Easter wrote a book last year about committing "the perfect crime." This is almost turning into one of those DirectTV ads: "When you're a bored OC housewife writing about the perfect crime, you start to believe in your own delusions. When you believe in your own delusions, you get into blood feuds with elementary school PTA presidents. When you get into blood feuds elementary school PTA presidents, you plant drugs in other people's car. DON'T PLANT DRUGS IN OTHER PEOPLE'S CAR."
posted by Armen Adzhemyan at 12:11 PM
12 Comments:
Holy smokes, I'm fairly confident that the accused father was recruiting at EIW last year.
What the hell happened to this website?
Don't forget the Alameda County Judge (Judge Paul Seeman) who was charged with 12 felony counts last week (1 for financial elder abuse, 11 for perjury, I believe). He was a Boaltie, too!
I like that her website as an author announces that she got an HH in her securities class, like that's some sort of lifetime achievement award.
http://www.avabjork.com/Home.html
Moral of the story: ubergunners with HH in securities get washed up. Corollary: chill bros and gals who take P=JD to heart profit.
Let those at Boalt be warned.
I think the story here is that it appears she received one HH her entire time at Boalt and still landed a job at Wilson Sonsini. Wow has the job market changed.
I received only one H my 1L year--the rest were Ps--and still received a summer offer from Wilson (but ultimately chose to go to another firm). I'm a graduate of this year's class.
It's true that Hs and HHs are good to have, but rising 2Ls shouldn't think themselves hopeless if they P = JDed it last year.
11:10, did you have relevant prior work experience or a hard sciences degree and a focus on patent lit or any other factors?
11:10 here. I don't have a hard sciences degree and am not going into patent lit. I did have relevant work experience, but would also attribute my OCI success to strong interviewing skills.
@11:10, that was the most unimpressive bragging I've ever seen. Where'd you end up going? (need just one more data point to triangulate on your identity)
Sorry to bust in on your update, Armen, but I believe the finale should be: "Don't be a bored OC housewife writing about the perfect crime." While I am a loyal DirecTV customer, and am thus duty bound to enjoy their commercials, they do strike me (as I'm sure they do you) to be unfortunately fallacious. Specifically, they proceed with:
A -> B; B -> C; C -> D; D -> E (E being a goal that you do not want to reach), then state, "Don't do A," with the implication being that E will then not happen. Thus, the total syllogism is:
A -> B;
B -> C;
C -> D;
D -> E;
~A
∴~E
This is the logical fallacy of denying the antecedent, if my recollection of college serves me correctly. The obvious mistake being that the argument presumes that because something is sufficient, it is also necessary.
In any event... I like their commercials.
Quick correction: my critique of your update was to keep it in line with the DirecTV commercials, not to make it logically correct.
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