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High Noon: Another Lawyer Abirthin’

Posted by DFO

May 15, 2009 12:18 p.m. • 8 comments

If I may be immodest for a second, in the past 3 years I have taken 24 exams, written 2 papers, 6 memos, 3 briefs, 8 bench memos (for a judicial externship), and given 3 oral arguments, 4 presentations, and spent countless hours sitting in class, reading, and generally dreading the Socratic method - but today, it is over, I am done with law school. Through out it all, HBO has been a pleasant distraction, a momentary respite from my studies, and a procrastination crutch. I have appreciated it, even during the times when I thought the majority of posters on this site were nuts. Thanks.

Question: Anyone have a good lawyer joke are anecdote re: a closer encounter with an attorney, to properly welcome Idawa into the legal fraternity?

Eight comments on this post so far. Add yours!

toadman on May 15 at 12:26 p.m.
I don’t know any lawyer jokes. I’ve known some lawyers that WERE jokes…but that’s another story.

All I know is that they’ll be some of the first ones up against the wall, come the revolution.
Sisyphus on May 15 at 12:59 p.m.
Do you know why lawyers wear ties?
DCR on May 15 at 1:06 p.m.
Happy graduation! Now you’ve got 6-8 weeks of intensive study, then multi-day bar exams for each state you want to practice in! Then, if you pass the bar, the real learning begins. Oh, yeah - you’re going to do a lot more writing than ever before, with nearly as much reading, and no 3-month summer vacations anymore.

Just remember why, before each finals week, you didn’t call it all quits and do something else. Then you’ll like your job.

Welcome.
BethB on May 15 at 1:17 p.m.
I was lucky that, for the first eight years of practicing law, I didn’t realize that I prefer to be self-employed. I say I was “lucky” because I really needed to spend those first few years working for other people in apprenticeship, so to speak. Now, I run my own practice. (Well, right now I write, but otherwise I run my own practice.) Still - those years of learning from others first? Priceless.

Good luck in your future! And congrats on completing all the hard work to this point.
MamaJD on May 15 at 1:47 p.m.
Not done yet … there’s still the bar exam, ya know. For me, the degree was anti-climatic with the bar exam hanging over my head.

Good luck and congratulations!
scootermom on May 15 at 1:55 p.m.
What’s the difference between a chicken and a lawyer?

The chicken CLucks deFiance.

The lawyer ….

(hint: switch the capitalized letters and say it out loud)
hhuseland on May 15 at 8:53 p.m.
Congratulations, Idawa, now on to the scurrilous bar exam.

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D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.