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With OCI bidding already under way, many 2Ls are busy choosing law firms. Undoubtedly most of those firms are headquartered in New York City, Washington D.C., or California. I want to take this opportunity to advise the 2Ls currently making their lists and the 1Ls that will be making their own lists in a few months to consider law firms in smaller markets.
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X-Men United Director: Brett Ratner Starring: Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry This film, the third in the X-Men series and first for Ratner after previous director Bryan Singer's departure for Superman Returns, was one of the most eagerly anticipated blockbusters of the 2006 season.
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It is interview season again and law students all over the country are lining up for summer positions at large corporate firms. Recent HLS grad Jeremy Blachman's Anonymous Lawyer provides a hilarious glimpse into the mind of a hiring partner at one of these firms.
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When The Record asked me to write a column for its career issue, I was a little surprised. You don't need my advice. You go to Harvard. You can get a job wherever you want. It's a little silly for your newspaper to even have a career issue. Not as silly as it is for your law school to have a newspaper, but still pretty silly.
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To the Editor: Many law students may still be unaware that the Harvard Kennedy School of Government hosted Mohammad Khatami, the former President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, to speak on the subject of "Ethics of Tolerance in the Age of Violence." On the eve of the fifth anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, D.
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More than 30 HLS and KSG students turned out last Thursday to meet with Patrick Murphy, the Democratic candidate in one of this campaign season's most hotly contested Congressional races. Murphy's nomination in Pennsylvania's 8th district has excited his party's leaders, who have targeted this race both with financial support and with Democratic star power, including Mark Warner, Barack Obama, and the Clintons.
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Five years after the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001, the Harvard Federalist Society hosted a panel of professors to discuss the balance between civil liberties and national security in the war on terrorism. Over 100 students sat, leaned, and stood in Harkness South to hear Professors Charles Fried, Laurence Tribe, and Steven Calabresi spar on issues ranging from NSA wiretapping to the Abu Ghraib detention camp.
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I. Look Before You Leap At the Office of Public Interest Advising, we believe that practicing law is about more than making a living or representing clients competently and ethically. We believe that what makes law a profession, rather than simply an occupation, is a personal commitment to equity, fairness, and the common good.
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As we head into the fall On-Campus Interview Program (OCI), the Office of Career Services would like to de-mystify the process and help you prepare for the intense, exciting, and busy weeks ahead. Harvard Law School's OCI is the nation's largest on-campus interviewing program.
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In the past week, I've been to the DOJ info session, the DC headhunters talk, an advising appointment with a DC headhunter, an advising appointment with OPIA, firm cocktail receptions, firm brunches. I've talked to my parents, best friends from college, law school friends, lawyers whom I happen to know, old bosses.
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While the summers of many HLS students involved ties, taxis, and the cultural highlights of New York or D.C., the summers of others ran more to elephant rides and ancient temples. While summer associates sampled the finest restaurants in America's biggest cities, another group of students were presented with coolers of coconuts and plates of fried tarantulas.
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When you walk into the offices of the Education Law Center and turn down the hall to your right, you'll see a wall covered in framed photographs. The frames don't match. Many of the photos are printouts on standard 8.5 x 11 office paper. The pictures aren't aligned neatly or in any discernable order.