The blog stylings of a few students at The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law.
Countdown to Graduation:
8 months and 24 days.
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More For Me

Ethan Haines is on a hunger strike. As the self-appointed spokesman for all law students, he is “disillusioned by law school employment statistics, commercial school rankings, and antiquated career counseling programs.”

Evidently, he’s “being the change” he wants to see. (What does that even mean anyway? I want my law school to do more to [...]

The Sense of Impending Anything

Have I told you my new favorite joke?

Most don’t find it funny.

Frankly, I love it.

I crack myself every time I tell it. That’s probably because I’ve never been much of a joke teller and this one qualifies more as a witty rejoin than full on joke.

Anyway, goes something like this…

Someone: Wow! Entering your last year [...]

11-week job interviews

I’ve just completed an 11- week job interview, having spent the summer at a law firm in the DC area.

While I had a truly great experience, I must say I have a profound respect for those “blawgers” who, in addition to working full-time as attorneys, are able to add useful and interesting commentary to the [...]

Applauding Your Professor

Law school introduced me to a tradition that I’ve come to really enjoy – applauding your professor at the end of a semester. This was not part of my undergraduate experience. But as a form of recognizing that a professor has spent a semester dropping some serious knowledge on our asses and/or as a means [...]

Stop It With the Rankings

Rankings are important. I don’t deny that. But they’re only important so far as they go – they are a rough gauge of the prestige of your school. They can be, and are, manipulated. They can become a self-fulfilling prophecy – if you focus on how low your rank is, you [...]

US News Rankings – Letter from the Dean

CUA Law students received this message from the Dean today regarding the latest US News & World Report law school rankings. It’s the most direct communications we’ve received from the Administration about the annual rankings in my time at the school.

I share it here, without further commentary, for your comments or other thoughts on law [...]

What Do You Ask Stevens’ Successor?

Justice John Paul Stevens is retiring “effective the next day after the Court rises for the summer recess this year.”

Fight The Hypo contributor Magnus Wellborn were discussing how we wished that these confirmation battles could focus more competence, substance, and intelligence rather than this carefully, choreographed dance designed to obscure backroom discussions and avoid saying [...]