April 30, 2012 at 2:08 am
It has often been said that one can not underestimate the power of networking. As law students we are consistently urged to take vital time out of our schedules to attend events as often as possible. I confess that I try to do this, but I also confess the working to build one’s network on [...]
April 30, 2012 at 1:53 am
As I reflect on the second semester of my second year coming to a close I look forward to my third year with both eagerness and apprehension. Coming off of working at the District Attorney’s Office, this year for the most part was the return to the practical for me. There was very little in [...]
March 25, 2012 at 9:30 pm
This week has been a fantastic week to be black law student in Boston. On Wednesday night I had the pleasure of attending Massachusetts Black Lawyer’s Association annual gala, where I had the opportunity to meet and commiserate with student friends, mentors, and practitioners. The night gave me a spectacular view of all [...]
February 26, 2012 at 2:01 pm
I am sure my good friend Mr. Linhart can appreciate this…
As a musician, I am always surprised by what inspires my creativity. There are times when I want to write a song, but can’t do so, either because I lack an instrumental (in which case I have to go through the process of creating one [...]
February 12, 2012 at 9:33 pm
It’s amazing how much a year and half-plus can alter your views. I often think about the things that I said wanted to use my law degree for when I drafted my personal statement for law school. I think about who I was and where I was at that point in my life and attempt [...]
January 28, 2012 at 1:10 pm
The journey through law school has been an interesting one for me (and I would dare say many of my friends). I came in here as an artist who used art to inform his community activism and then used his community activism to inform his desire to go to law school. As I journeyed through [...]
December 14, 2011 at 11:53 am
The last week has been insane! Last Friday I had to represent a client at an employment hearing in the morning, I had two telephone interviews for summer positions in the afternoon and I had to meet with my “Hard Work and Dedication” study group for evidence.. In fact, one of my telephone interviews took [...]
November 28, 2011 at 4:23 pm
Today I walked into a court room representing a client in need. A client I had only met a week ago whose situation required me to be prepared as if I had met her six months ago. At stake was the safety of her children. To put it mildly, having such little time to prepare [...]
November 20, 2011 at 3:20 pm
As a law student who was a community activist prior to law school, I came into law school thinking that litigation was the way solve problems. Through my work in Las Vegas I was able to observe how filings and threats of litigation could shift the power paradigm and allow small community based organizations like [...]
October 14, 2011 at 7:12 pm
According to Wikipedia (gotta love the credibility of that phrase) Convergence theory holds that crowd behavior is not a product of the crowd itself, but is carried into the crowd by particular individuals. Thus, crowds amount to a convergence of like-minded individuals.
For me law school is a perfect symbol of this. One of the most [...]
