From the monthly archives:

January 2009

Tips and Tricks for 1.5Ls

by John on January 24, 2009

in Law School

By now, pretty much every 1L in America is done with one-sixth of their law school career. Congratulations. You took on a great challenge and got through it. If you reading this and you didn’t make it through your first semester, I hope you take the time to sit down and ask yourself why you [...]

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I hope you like this

by John on January 23, 2009

in Law School

I did this for three reasons. 1) To make some video like I promised myself I would do. 2) To overcome just the sheer horror at hearing my own voice. And 3) to get some practice talking on a camera and hosting something. So I hope you like it. Let me know if I should [...]

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Contract attorney work drying up

by John on January 14, 2009

in Law School

Above the Law has a post about how even the dregs of the American legal industry—contract work—is starting to dry up and more and more people are finding that their “last resort” isn’t as available as they thought it would be. The reasons? Increased offshoring of low-level work made possible by new ABA rules, and [...]

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Why I chose Motionbox

by John on January 2, 2009

in Law School

I did at least a cursory review of four or five video sites. They included Youtube, Viddler, Vimeo, and even Flickr. All of them got eliminated for one reason or another: Youtube: Insufficient quality and too low of an upload limit. Pros: Biggest site that draws the most traffic. Viddler: I could not tell if [...]

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I promise to take these tips to heart: You should too.

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3 Goal Words for 2009

by John on January 1, 2009

in Law School

New Year’s Resolutions don’t work. We all know this. One of the reasons if New Year’s Resolutions are not SMART (I rattled off SMART from memory in a previous post, but here’s a good explanation from Lifehacker). They’re more just vague things that we always want to do but just say out loud on January [...]

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