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One day last year, while browsing the Harvard Square Barnes and Fauxbles, I encountered a thought provoking book: 65 Successful Harvard Business School Application Essays: With Analysis by the Staff of the Harbus, the Harvard Business School Newspaper. Hey, I thought, there's no reason why the Record can't do the same thing, if only because we have a much less silly name.
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As we start off this new year, the Lincoln's Inn has been preparing. We have washed the crimson carpet, scrubbed the checkered tiles of the basement bar and hauled copious amounts of alcohol to the house on 44 Follen (not to mention that the beer taps in the basement are back online).
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Student Financial Services and the Office of Public Interest Advising offered debt relief and a full Italian dinner to students in a packed Pound 101 last Thursday as recent law school graduates talked about "Living on LIPP." All four panelists had been or were still using the Low Income Protection Plan, which helps students pay off their annual loans while working for lower salaries than many of their peers.
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Nearly two-thirds of the 1L class filled the seats and aisles of Austin North last Tuesday evening for the annual Public Interest Orientation. Many were visibly moved by hearing featured speaker Bryan Stevenson, '85, describe his work as an advocate for death row inmates in Alabama and by his exhortations for students to "hold on" and "create justice.
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Last Thursday, September 14, Professor Laurence H. Tribe presented an opening address for the American Constitution Society chapter at HLS. In a speech entitled "The Inverted Bush Constitution: From Executive Lawmaking and Presidential Signing Statements to Torturing Detainees and Spying on Ordinary Citizens," Professor Tribe delivered remarks to a packed Austin North lecture hall.
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Deval Patrick, a 1982 graduate of Harvard Law School, is now one step closer to being the next governor of Massachusetts. Patrick won the Democratic primary for Massachusetts governor Tuesday night with 50% of the vote, defeating Boston venture capitalist Chris Gabrieli and Attorney General Tom Reilly.
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To the person who wrote last week's editorial, "Being the Braver Pigeon: To OCI or Not OCI": Your editorial broke my heart. It was incredibly hard to read. I kept thinking of friends of mine you might be. And this is coming from a person who has been telling people that your story is the story of elite law schools for a whole year; that while plenty of students find fulfillment at firms small and large, there are dozens, maybe even hundreds who end up shelving their government or public interest dreams for the job security and sky-high salaries of large law firms that they already know they won't like.
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Frustration. Frustration sums up my feelings about the class registration process. While I admire the registrar for its efforts to provide students with an updated system, there is one major flaw: the add/drop period does not start until the first day of class.
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After an arduous summer of tanning, drinking, and partying on the Lilly pad, Kermit was ready for OCI. He had chosen firms that had lean staffing, good compensation, excellent connections, and interesting practice areas. Now he just had to wait for the offers to start pouring in.
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I spent my summer at an environmental non-profit in Anchorage. Alaska is, of course, a great place to do environmental law because it has a long and proud history as a place where humanity interacts with nature on its grandest scale. By which I mean we kill it, obviously.
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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, September 3, 2006 - "Australia is facing deep cultural conflict over same-sex marriages, religious influences on policy and whether to add a bill of rights to the constitution. Post-modern constitutional lawmaking plays a dynamic role in seeing Australia through these complex relations.
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I have a story to tell. It's not your typical law school story, and it's not your typical job search story. In fact, I can't think of a single thing that's typical about it. But that's what makes for good stories and good lessons. See, I went searching for a job.