#law school month

[fairytail-incorrectquotes]

Levy: Pspspsps

Gajeel, walking over to her: Are you trying to call a cat?

Levy, frantically taking notes: Holy shit it worked

[whirlpool-blogs]

Five Questions with Jack Hughes

May 29, 2019 | Timestamp: Jack Hughes (5:03)

Do you feel ready to play in the NHL next season? "My speed and skill will translate well, and I believe in my heart I'm the best player in this draft and the best player on the board. I'm a confident kid so I think I had a great year. I know in my head and in my heart that I'm an NHL player and I think that after my experience at the World Championship, it solidified in my mind that I'm ready to go for it next year. I want to be an impact player and come out of the gates fast."

What was the most memorable moment for you as the youngest player for the United States at the 2019 IIHF World Championship in Slovakia? "Just to be in the locker room with the NHL players, go out to dinner with them, hang out with them. I feel like it was an invaluable experience and kind of like going to Harvard law school, I guess, because that's the best education you could get being around guys like that. You've got guys there like Ryan Suter, a 14-year veteran in the League, who was once in the same position as me. Patrick Kane and James van Riemsdyk took great care of me, taking me out to dinner, talking with me, and teaching me things. Those are guys I kind of created relationships with that will help me for the next couple of years."

Did you meet your goals and expectations at the NTDP this season? "You want to be realistic for the year, but I think of myself pretty high, and I had some goals in mind like breaking the record for most career points at the program and did that. I kind of shattered it and hopefully no one will touch it for a couple of years. I wanted to get the single season record but I missed a few games with an injury and finished with 112 points; the record was 117. Along the way, you don't really think of it that much but keep pushing the pace and pushing your play. I had a pretty good sequence of games at the World Under-18 Championship but our main goal was to win gold there, and we didn't. I'd trade all 20 of my points there for a gold medal, but I feel like I had a pretty good tournament."

How did two seasons at the NTDP make you a better player? "First of all, it makes you a better person. You're growing up with 23 kids your own age on the same team and dealing with the same things. It's kind of a brotherhood you create there, and you can't really say that about other places. The NTDP is a great spot to grow as a human. If you want to dedicate your life to becoming a hockey player, your game will absolutely go through the roof. There's a shooting room there and you're on the ice two hours a day, there are two games over the weekend, you skate 5-to-7 times a week, lift three times a week. If you want to be a hockey player and you're an American boy, the NTDP is the place you need to go."

What are your plans between the end of the Combine and the NHL Draft? "Just having some fun and relaxing. I don't think I'm going to work out or skate. I was in Europe for almost two months (at the World Under-18 Championship in Sweden and World Championship), just playing hockey, being dialed in and focused. Now that the hockey season is over, I think I'll just watch the Stanley Cup Final, golf and hang out with friends ... be a kid for the last month. Then I'll head to Vancouver. I think my life will change a lot once that weekend goes by."

[datazoid]

[blondebrainpowered]

The Howard Law School Graduating Class, ca. 1899

Howard University was founded on March 2, 1867. It is a private, historically black, federally chartered research university in Washington, D.C., United States.

[notbecauseofvictories]

it's a good thing that I've developed a pretty cast-iron sense of self-worth, because otherwise....man, my boss could do a number on me without even really trying.

[meteortrails]

key to law’s characterization that he’s the kind of older brother who would stand menacingly in the doorway and say offputting shit when you have your friends over purely just to fuck with you. he’s an absolute unrepentant troll - he LOVES being weird and annoying and confusing. law is the kind of older brother who you cannot fucking stand to fight with bc when things get heated, he just gets outwardly calmer and meaner. he’s near impossible to actually intentionally embarrass or fluster bc he genuinely doesn’t give a shit about most things and if you care enough to try, he’s already pissed you off and therefore won (remember: unrepentant shithead troll). this all of course comes with the caveat that nothing annoys him the way losing the idgaf contest or someone accidentally fucking with his shit does, both of which happen Constantly around the strawhats lmao

[useless-catalanfacts]

Btw if you come on holidays and stay at an AirBnb instead of an actual registered hotel I hate you personally. Not "I hate the gentrification and touristic massification and the way we can't live in our homes and are forced to move away because of tourism" in an abstract way- No, not just that. I hate you.

[hotvampireadjacent]

I have never shown any interest to this school Lmao

[riesenfeldcenter]

It’s Women’s History Month! To kick off March, here is our copy of Abby Smith and Her Cows (1877), which recounts a celebrated case of taxation without representation. 

In 1872, sisters Abby and Julia Smith (who were respectively 75 and 80 years old), were the only surviving members of their family and lived on the Connecticut farm homestead where they were born. The town raised the taxes of the sisters and two other widows in town, but not of any of the single men. Abby and Julia refused to pay their taxes until they were able to vote in town meetings, and eventually seven of their cows were seized  (four of which they willingly bought back) along with 15 acres of land to cover their debt. The sisters took their case to court and ultimately won, as the town had illegally confiscated their land but not their property.

The story of the sisters’ triumph was quickly picked up by newspapers across the country, and their cows (lovingly named Daisy, Whitey, Minnie, Proxy, Martha Washington, and Abigail Adams) shared their fame.

[klanced]

katie your lawyer au tags have me on my knees I never thought guys in suits doing stuff would seem interesting but wow…wow. your mind

Thank u Anon this AU is incredibly indulgent for me.......... ok time 4 more world-building.

I think @heynhay's original idea of Keith & Lance working together at the same firm is best. For both plot reasons but also for my own morale LOL

So everyone works at a fairly large private firm that splits its practice and has some of its associates doing profit-driven law (i.e. corporate or finance) which subsidizes the public interest/service work that the other associates do.

The firm is like "Altea & Daibazaal LLP" or something. Yes I am implying that the firm was started by Alfor and Zarkon. Yes I am implying that Allura and Lotor are nepo babies.

I know I originally said that Keith and Lance were law school rivals but I've changed my mind... (RIP to the law school rivalry dynamics

Instead I'm making it so that Keith and Lance are the same age but Lance has been practicing longer because he went straight into law school after college. Whereas Keith started working after college and got like a Master's degree in Social Work or something before deciding on law school at 26. (I just think Keith is the kind of person who goes to law school later in life.)

Okay onto the specific Klance dynamics... Keith and Lance are both pushing 30 and are also literally lawyers so they are professional and serious about their work... But there is wiggle room for them to still be rivals :p

Lance and Keith are both junior associates at the firm. Lance has seniority because he's been at the firm longer but he's still a year or so away from formally becoming a senior associate.

Lance really, REALLY wants to make partner and he sees Keith as his biggest threat/rival because Keith is Shiro's little brother, and Shiro recently made partner at the firm, so Lance thinks Keith might be a nepo hire. Also some of the senior associates recently left the firm so now Lance is stuck showing Keith the ropes and he's lowkey super bitter about it.

Basically TLDR Lance starts off Not Liking Keith at all for various real or imagined reasons and begins a work rivalry with him. Keith doesn't actually GAF about making partner because he's only planning on working at the firm for a few years to help pay off his student loans, but Lance doesn't know that. However, Keith is a naturally very competitive person, and he also likes having Lance's attention, so Keith immediately goes all in on the rivalry.

Lance, internally: "This Fucking Guy."

Keith, internally: "I am so good at flirting."

The first few months are rough between them. However both are also incredibly productive in their work.

The romcom part of the AU kicks in once the two of them have to start working together on a huge high stakes civil case and they're both like wow.... *twirls hair* he's so competent.............. <3

Anyway misc. things:

TBH I have no idea what kind of law Keith and Lance might private practice... I'm also really torn on what Shiro, Allura, and Hunk would practice hdjsksdhedf

Pidge is hired on a fellowship for either environmental law or data security/privacy law.

Coran does employment law.

Keith went into law school planning on going into public interest/not-for-profit legal aid and swore he would never, ever do corporate law but then he saw his student loans and was like. Hm. Okay maybe some Biglaw is okay. And that's how he ended up at the firm.

Keith:

[bizarrelittlemew]

i still can't get over that HR fucked up so badly that i just suddenly owed $10,000. despite me calling attention to the error in december. which they proceeded to do nothing about for 6 months

[fillejondrette]

we talked about trans student athletes in class today and i was like yeah i think it's disingenuous to refer to these laws as trans athlete bans bc they really just require students to be on a team that matches their sex, not their gender identity, and i'm not sure what gender identity would have to do with sports anyways. other people's responses can be summarized as: 1) riley gaines is a loser for testifying about losing a sports competition 2) none of the people claiming to care about women's sports actually do, it's just transphobia 3) there's no evidence of harm from allowing trans athletes to participate on teams of their choosing, but there is evidence of harm to trans kids through not allowing them to do that 4) implying that sex doesn't really exist/is socially constructed/can be changed

personally i did not find any of these convincing. i was actually disappointed by the quality of the arguments. and it's interesting, bc i don't remember trans athletes even being a big topic going back more than a few years ago, yet there was already such a strong and ill-informed consensus in the classroom. i was 100% in line w/ trans activists' talking points until a few years ago, and i don't think this was really a thing pre-2020s. i remember realizing in like 2021 that my ideological peers thought trans women should be on women's sports teams and being really surprised.

anyway. forgive them lord for they know not what they're talking about.

[seo-changbinnies]

Marie .. you’re studying for the bar and still finding time to gif??

[egipci]

Does John’s real/unmanipulated heaven v.1 include a memory of fucking Dean (at any age)? Call in and tell us why or why not!

[chilapis]

remembered my selfship blog from 2021 & scrolled down it. very strange and disturbing!

[riesenfeldcenter]

In honor of Black History Month, we'd like to share our copy of Let Me Live (1937), by Angelo Herndon.

Angelo Herndon (1913-1997) was a coal miner and labor organizer who worked across racial lines. After an attempt to organize black and white industrial workers in Atlanta in 1932, Herndon was arrested and convicted of insurrection. The prosecution case pointed to his possession of communist literature (all of which could be found at a public library), which were found in his hotel room.

Herndon was eventually sentenced to 18 to 20 years of hard labor, but his conviction was overturned by the state appeals court and he was released on bail. On April 26th, 1937, a narrow majority of the Supreme Court ruled in his favor, ruling Georgia's insurrection statute as unconstitutional.

Let Me Live, Herndon's autobiography written during his time in prison, tells the story of his arrest and times in court but also describes his early life up until that point.

This first edition copy features an inscription from Herndon to Thomas Mooney, a noted political activist and labor leader who was controversially imprisoned. When Herndon was out on bail awaiting appeals, he visited Mooney in prison and conducted an interview, which was published in Labor Defender in January, 1935.

To view more about this book and other materials to celebrate Black History Month, visit our digital exhibit, Law and the Struggle for Racial Justice.