It’s 2:45am the night before my first day as a summer associate. As I lie in the tiny room I’m subletting in the West Village, unable to sleep, I hear a tenor saxaphone on the street below soulfully playing “Summertime.” What a fitting way to start out my summer in the city, I think. After […]
March 29, 2011 at 7:22 pm
My most prized possessions are books. Though my computer is my most expensive possession, followed by my bed and my couch, I wouldn’t think twice about discarding all three items if I had to, say, move across the country or update my laptop for a job. But my books, as inexpensive as they might be […]
March 9, 2011 at 11:38 pm
This case is about a tragic accident. An honorable man, distracted by uncharacteristic personal troubles, took less care than usual with his gun and tragically paid with his life . . . As I deliver my closing arguments before my Trial Advocacy class, I might as well be on stage. Though my hand is faintly […]
January 24, 2011 at 7:04 pm
This is the image printed on one of my favorite tee shirts. I’m not a connoisseur of clever shirts and clichés, but I do appreciate ones that fit me, and this one does. Especially lately, and not just because I’ve shed a few excess holiday pounds. The reason for my optimism: after completing three semesters […]
December 11, 2010 at 2:56 pm
“Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering, and that is a fact. There is no need to appeal to universal history to prove that; only ask yourself, if you are a man and have lived at all. As far as my personal opinion is concerned, to care only for well-being seems to me […]
By jjcrave
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Posted in Students
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Also tagged civil litigation, clinic, Dante, Dostoevsky, Evidence, Finals, Inferno, Law school, Notes From the Underground, Paradiso, Professional Responsibility
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November 16, 2010 at 12:31 pm
Most of us law students love to hear our own voices. We are former debaters, mock trial masters, model U.N. buffs, and armchair analysts who attended law school in part, I suspect, because we believed we could use our loud mouths and over-zealous opinions to make a living—and, in many cases, to make a difference. […]
October 28, 2010 at 12:24 pm
Tonight, on the eve of my twenty-seventh birthday, while pumping away on a stationary bike at the gym, I finished reading Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being, a novel in which characters perceive life in varying degrees of lightness or heaviness. The book, my impending birthday, and the grunting of undergrad weightlifters in much better […]
October 23, 2010 at 4:17 pm
Watching the film last Thursday took me back to my first days as a teacher. I was a twenty-two-year-old from Kansas, equipped with little more than a bachelor’s degree, a six-week teaching boot camp, and a naïve desire to save the world. My task: reach and teach five periods a day of high energy, low-performing […]
