Character & Fitness: Scooter Libby Passed, So I Think You’re In The Clear
[Ed. note: This post is by FROLIC & DETOUR, one of the finalists in ATL Idol, the “reality blogging” competition that will determine ATL’s next editor. It is marked with Frolic & Detour’s avatar (at right).]
It’s puzzling that lawyers have a reputation as a bunch of thieving shysters. After all, we have to prove our character and fitness before joining the profession. Unlike, say, doctors, lawyers’ unique responsibilities demand high moral standards as well as professional skill. Only the pure in heart can be allowed to carry the briefcase.
Yes, 3Ls, for a mere $815 (0r more), expert bureaucrats will judge your moral merit. Along with the occasional white supremacist, state C&F committees weed out sinners great and small. Unpaid parking tickets? They’re on it. Remember that security deposit on your 1999 summer share? They do.
Maybe you didn’t think that a drunken tailgate from sophomore year would come back to haunt you. But we’ve already heard from several C&F veterans about the long-forgotten dramas that stood between them and their legal dreams:
I worked as a paralegal at a small New York firm in between college and law school. After six months, I got sick of picking up sushi and making copies, so I quit. The firm was furious that I was leaving, and they threatened to do whatever it took to keep me out of the bar. Sure enough, three and a half years later, they told California that I was a liar and not to be trusted. California admitted me anyway. Later in my career, I moved to New York. This firm again told the bar that I was a liar and made as much trouble as they could — almost six years after I quit.
I skipped a lot of class in high school and ended up with a bunch of Fs. I graduated from college with honors, then made it to a top-6 law school, with years of work experience along the way. I was 26 when I took the bar. C&F gave me huge problems over my high school academic record. They made me write a long apology and promise never to do it again. For real.
So readers, what vomit blotches stained your bar applications? How did you have to pay penance? Share in the comments or at frolicndetour.atl.idol@gmail.com, and we’ll discuss on Thursday.
(183) Comments
Comments
This is terrible
Poorly selected topic, nothing to see here
Boooooring.
Is this even an issue? blah this is a boring post
I don't believe that the stories are real. Law firm don't care about paralegals enough to know their names, let alone try to ruin their lives 6 years later.
character and fitness interviews are almost as big a joke and F&D still being in this contest. Lets give it to Sophist and get on with our lives.
character and fitness interviews are almost as big a joke as F&D still being in this contest. Lets give it to Sophist and get on with our lives.
We all know that F&D has not shot here, we just didn't want to read Marin's drivel any more. Just give it to Sophist already so we can stop reading this crap.
Did f&d make up those big block quotes? Survey says yes.
See, e.g., http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/lines_in_the_sand/
eh.
Why do I care about this? Oh, that's right...I don't.
Where is Alex's farewell post?
This post is first rate.
Relevant, of interest to a substantial portion of ATL law students with guilty consciences (will they find out about...), and well written. Several good links.
Still think Sophist will win, but credit where credit is due. A-
I thought this was entertaining and interesting. F&D, you have my vote.
news flash, f&d still as terrible as ever... more news at [yawn]
Looks like F&D's friends are out in full force this afternoon...
16- yup, all 8.2% of them
zzzzz. Same pandering to law students and just-graduated law students as Sophist, but without anything in the way of independent thought.
this is a decent post. you guys need to give f&d a break because sophist sucks almost just as bad...
Seriously?!? - "shysters"? Do you even realize how offensive this term is to Jews? Anti-semite.
Please don't use words when you don't know what they mean.
Sophist isn't great, but it's better than this.
Big law firms don't learn paralegals' names, but small firms do. I could imagine a small firm being mad if he/she left suddenly, so they had to quickly find someone else to get their sushi and make their photocopies. Its still hard to imagine them carrying a grudge for years afterwards though, unless there is more going on here that what the narrator is telling us -- paralegal somehow embarassed lawyers, love affair between paralegal and lawyer turned sour, something like that.
@3:52--I think you're confused. Shyster is not a Jew-specific term. Don't be a scheisskopf.
Oh my god. These posts are going from pathetic to truly horrible. Lat, PLEASE don't leave.
Putting the contest aside, I recently had my character&fitness interview in Manhattan...was told beforehand that such interviews were a joke. Got there and was grilled pretty tough on a false arrest as a juvenile (charges never even brought), one parking ticket, and for testifying against my own assailant in a criminal case. Some of these interviewers are power hungry losers so please be forewarned...
20-- Agreed. Inappropriate word.
You lost my vote by using the word "shysters." You need to learn what it means - and then never use it again.
20-- Agreed. Inappropriate word.
"Shyster" is defined in Black's law dictionary. No reference to Judaism. Calm yourself comment #20.
"Shyster" is defined in Black's law dictionary. No reference to Judaism. Calm yourself comment #20.
"Shyster" is defined in Black's law dictionary. No reference to Judaism. Calm yourself comment #20.
"Shyster" is defined in Black's law dictionary. No reference to Judaism. Calm yourself comment #20.
"Shyster" is defined in Black's law dictionary. No reference to Judaism. Calm yourself comment #20.
"Shyster" is defined in Black's law dictionary. No reference to Judaism. Calm yourself comment #20.
"Shyster" is defined in Black's law dictionary. No reference to Judaism. Calm yourself comment #20.
and I always thought it was the "pure of heart".
"Shyster" is defined in Black's law dictionary. No reference to Judaism. Calm yourself comment #20.
"Shyster" is defined in Black's law dictionary. No reference to Judaism. Calm yourself comment #20.
"Shyster" is defined in Black's law dictionary. No reference to Judaism. Calm yourself comment #20.
"Shyster" is defined in Black's law dictionary. No reference to Judaism. Calm yourself comment #20.
"Shyster" is defined in Black's law dictionary. No reference to Judaism. Calm yourself comment #20.
"Shyster" is defined in Black's law dictionary. No reference to Judaism. Calm yourself comment #20.
"Shyster" is defined in Black's law dictionary. No reference to Judaism. Calm yourself comment #20.
20, the dictionary does not reveal anything Jewish-related in the etymology of the word "shyster" at all. it comes from German "scheisser." Its offensive to lawyers, but not to Jews. You may be thinking of "shylock," a term for loan shark which could be considered offensive since it comes from the name of character the Merchant of Venice.
Please don't make accusations about offensive language when you don't know what you are talking about.
"Shyster" is defined in Black's law dictionary. No reference to Judaism. Calm yourself comment #20.
37-43 -- i think you need to calm yourself
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Does anyone know if Black's defines "shyster?" Anyone?
#20 here - Shyster is a slang term for a Jewish lawyer. It is an inappropriate word and it's use is improper in any setting - especially by a person affiliated with the management of this site.
David, are you supportive of this anti-semetic slang?
What word would you use to describe a black lawyer?
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To the idiot who doesn't know how to post, #s 29, 30, 31...43 it still has racist and anti-semitic implications and should be avoided, especially when it adds ZERO to the post
Whoa calm your horses there. Hit "post comment" once, and then hit refresh. It isn't that difficult.
54 -
I was being sarcastic
-47
Finally a pretty decent post from F&D. And for the record, I consistently voted against her in past polls, so I'm willing to give credit where credit's due.
And to the 1L's here who think they can eventually blow off C&F in 3 years, I'll drop a dime in your cup when I see you panhandling on the subway.
25, what was the result? Did you have to do anything special other than the interview? I can't believe that they grilled you over a parking ticket. I've had a ton of parking tickets, I've paid them all, but I've had a bunch. Being questioned for C&F because of parking tickets seems really obnoxious.
Living in Hades.
47- I wasn't telling you, I'm assuming you posted that for the same reason I posted (comment 30-43). I understood your post.
-54
Character and fitness was a joke. I failed to see how an arrest for underage drinking really reflects on anyone's fitness (more just on luck). The person I spoke with seemed nice but he seemed to realize that the whole thing was b.s.
Whoa calm your horses there. Hit "post comment" once, and then hit refresh. It isn't that difficult.
This comment thread is way funnier than F&D's post. Fail.
Is the guy claiming racism claiming that all jews are sleazy lawyers? That's pretty racist.
20/50 - what is your source for that claim? The five dictionaries I have consulted do not agree with you, but if you have something to back it up I'm all ears.
Here's the entymology biznatches:
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-shy1.htm
History is not anti-semetic.
Dear 20:
The word “shyster” is neither anti-Semitic, nor one that’s use is necessarily offensive to Jews.
Rather, “shyster” is a Yiddish word of Germanic origin (probably from the German “Scheisser”, that literally means “defecator”) that is used to indicate a person who is professionally unscrupulous especially in the practice of law or politics.
Shyster is s word USED BY Jews, and the only one likely to take offense at the epithet is the one to whom the expression is directed.
F&D used the expression correctly and it is undeniable (albeit regrettable) that lawyers do have a reputation in our society as "person[s] who [are] professionally unscrupulous."
Source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shyster and my own rudimentary knowledge of Yiddish.
20 - maybe frolic is jewish and thus feels it is a right to make fun of jews, ala jackie mason.
if true then all jew bashers can come out and curse down lat on only picking jews (or at least jewish dog - owner) for the contest.
F&D just made a poor attempt to include...Guys in my high school use to ditch class, get F's and have trouble with the state bar on moral character.
Or for another background here....
http://cs.anu.edu.au/software/shyster/book/etymology.pdf
Ok people, I'm frankly surprised that no one has pointed this out yet, but "Shyster" is defined in Black's law dictionary. No reference to Judaism. So please, calm yourself comment #20.
I didn't even make this point originally, but even good old wikipedia understands it has anti-semitic overtones http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shyster
Wikipedia mentions a Jewish connotation. I didn't find any other web source to this relationship.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shyster
There it is
From a reputable source -
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=shyster
Wow, F&D, I bet you didn't know that the use of that word would cause such an uproar. Remember, this is the country where, in a few months, we'll have a Hussein in the White House. Everything must be 100% PC or you'll piss someone off. Shame on you for not looking up the origin of a commonly used word. Put your kid gloves on and try again.
entymology is here also....
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-shy1.htm
Who would have guessed Wiki is wrong,.......no antisemetic origin.
72-- Wikipedia says it has antisemitic connotations, not just some inoffensive Jewish connotation
Wikipedia is the best thing ever. Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject, so you know you are getting the best possible information.
Michael Scott
Wow....wiki is wrong...who would have guessed.
http://www.rsdb.org/search?q=shyster
try again, just because the origin of the word may not have been antisemitic doesn't mean the usage and connotation of the word isn't offensive
How, precisely, does "schyster" disparage or "make fun of" Jews.
F&D could have just as easily said "It's puzzling that lawyers have a reputation as a bunch of thieving AMBULENCE CHASERS,"--schyster is no more or less offensive.
Shyster is a NOT slang term for a "Jewish lawyer", sorry.
71-73: And you trust an unsourced claim on Wikipedia over Black's and Webster???
I hope you EPIC FAILed not just your C&F but also the bar exam. Idiot.
The first story is a Hope Winters classic. "So, this firm totally tried to keep me out of the bar, and then they didn't keep me out of the bar."
Talking about ethics, I would appreciate if the NY BOLE took down their twelve year archive of Bar results. They are the only state that leaves the results up for longer than a few examination cycles and as such, the information always come up whenever there is a google search of my name. It's not a huge deal but I think that is a violation of my privacy and I don't see why they do it. Someone I haven't spoken to in awhile geting to know that I passed in July of 2004 doesn't really benefit them.
I think this "ivy league girl" needs to pack up her "midwestern attitude" and go home.
This thread proves nothing if not that Jews are a bunch of thin-skinned weenies.
56, I had to make a trip back to my home town during business hours and pay a fee to the local cops to write a letter proving that I have no criminal record. Then I had to compose a detailed affidavit explaining the entire embarassing incident. My interview was delayed until I submitted the extra documentation. Mostly just embarassing. -25
20 doth protest too much, methinks.
Hey, I figured with all the shakespeare being thrown around....
I'm pretty paranoid when it comes to anti-semitism but I don't think shyster is anti-semitic. You guys - because I know you're not goys - may be thinking of "shylock."
Some of you are a little quick to read an anti-Semitic slur into anything and everything.
Shyster is a Yiddish word--i.e. was coined by Jews, and not by others to disparage Jews.
C&F gave me a hard time because I was a manager at a candy company called the Sweet Shop, which was accidentally named Sweat Shop in my paperwork. Anyway, I explained the situation and they were cool for a while until they found out that the candy was manufactured by laborers in a Jersey basement who were paid 1 dollar an hour. But it wasn't the horrors of the labor situation that really set them off, it was when I started singing "Ironic" by Allanis Morissette. Moral of the story: C&F hates Canadians.
OOPS, that post was for 57, not 56 (from 25 and 86)
I can't believe people are defending this. The etymology of "spook" isn't racial either, but that's not an appropriate thing to say either.
"but even good old wikipedia understands it has anti-semitic overtones"
Wikipedia is neither good nor old, but a collection of whatever various anonymous editors have decided to insert. Ditto for the "urban dictionary," which has a few ethnic related-definitions (though those were actually rejected by more voters than accepted them).
20 = the wiki editor? or perhaps Marin?
85- Actually, a moel cuts the the thin skin off the weenie on day 8.
"Shyster" - this is the last time I'm visiting ATL. Seriously, regardless of which of these retards takes over, ATL is D.O.N.E.
This was a good post. Solid topic, funny.
Commenters are usually funny, too, but today you guys suck.
100th?
Comment clusterfuck siren time?
Thanks for the links 65 and 75, but for the record, you probably meant etymology; entymology is the study of insects.
great job F&D, way to spark an anti-semitism debate with a completly pointless post. this still won't help you win this contest.
guys at my high school use to use racial slurs and lose ATL idol contests all the time, it turned out to be a big deal.
I got grief from C&F for failing to disclose a citation for failure to wear a seatbelt. It was a $10 ticket that I got 6 years before applying to the bar.
I got in trouble with C&F for inadvertantly using racial slurs, I guess my excuse that I'm just a midwestern girl didn't go over too well.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=yiddish
YIDDISH
“A Jewish language based on German once spoken throughout Central and Eastern Europeby AshkenazicJews. The name comes from a combination of the German words, "Jud" (Jew) and "Deutsch" (German). …Yiddish words have heavily influenced American English,especially that of New York, and to a lesser extent have made it into Cockney.
“ The use of YIDDISH WORDS LIKE schmuck, putz, SHYSTER, etc. by comedians, in particular, has spread Yiddishisms throughout the Anglosphere. Even though the Yiddish language is in a severe and probably irreversible state of decline, certain Yiddish words will always be with us, kein ahora.”
By the BS-PC reasoning of those of you who proclaim offense at schyster, “putz” or “schmuck” would also be considered anti-Sementic.
Nonsense.
95, "retards"??? Seriously, "retards"? Do you have any idea how offensive that term is to people with mental handicaps? Investigate the protests against the new Ben Stiller movie "Tropical Thunder."
Guys in my high school were frequently law school graduates who had failed to promise to not go back to high school and fail it again.
Do you know how offensive "going Dutch" is to the Dutch people? It's why they built the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
Its a good thing I edited the wiki definition of shyster to add the antiemetic refernce this morning
There was no point in using the word. It added nothing. If this was a stylistic flourish, well, it failed. There is a difference between being overly P.C. and smart and educated enough to realize that some words while okay in certain contexts are reasonably offensive to some people. They may be a little over sensitive, but they also have a point. To not even understand this possibility or to not care (worse) is a serious problem for someone who expects to work with words to reach a public audience. There really is no excuse for the sloppiness. Clearly this was thrown together at the last minute (and seems like it was late,) but that is not an excuse. Bush league job.
104 = Althouse
81, I hope you epically fail in life, you jackass. I did a web search and found that wiki mentioned the word has an anti-Semitic connotation. I didn't claim that wiki was absolutely right.
I love that Shyster just means sleazy lawyer, but that there are so many sleazy Jewish lawyers in New York used to being called that that now Jews take offense at it as if it is unique to them. That's just a riot.
92, actually some of the same dictionaries that do not indicate anything offensive about the word "shyster" do list the offensive meaning of "spook". So that is not really a good example to support your point.
Do you actually know how to look anything up? You know, in actual reference books, not just on google?
112, I think we all understand how to look things up in a dictionary. It's alphabetical, right?
"Bush league" may be construed as offensive to certain elements of the incumbent administration. Those that know how to read, anyway.
F&D knows how to use Google! That's how she does her "reporting."
Guys at my high school used to post hundreds of comments on blogs all the time. But since blogs didn't exist yet and the internet was only a series of tubes in Al Gore's imagination, it was no big deal.
No, 109, not Althouse, just a parody of #20 who started this nonsense.
-104
I just took the bar in NY. When am I supposed to send in my paperwork? And how do I know what judicial division to send it to?
This was actually a decent post.
95 said "retard." That's anti-semitic, and I'm offended.
118, can't do it till you pass.
Lick my monkey
There is a scene in Annie Hall where Woody Allen satirizes the very hair-trigger sentiments expressed by the offended posters above:
An agitated Alvy (Woody Allen) explains to his calm friend Rob (Tony Roberts), that he thinks an acquaintance has made an anti-Semitic remark in a Jew-baiting incident:
“You know, I was having lunch with some guys from NBC, so I said, 'Did you eat yet or what?' And Tom Christie said, 'No, JEW?' Not 'Did you?'...JEW eat? JEW? You get it? JEW eat?”
You guys need to lighten up.
How much does the EIC post pay??? I'm just wondering, because it must be extremely low since the talent they are getting for this spot is truly awful.
92 just finished reading the Human Stain.
I went through the dot-com bust and lost about everything I (previously) owned, and had just started turning things around 3-4 years later before entering law school. My C&F interview centered around how it was that I had all these assets back in 2000-2001 yet now I didn't. I wanted to yell 'DUH!' but had to remind myself that these two particular members been working for the State Bar for the past 15 years and were insulated from the economy so didn't know that there was a dot-com crash, let alone how to use their Apple Newton.
Wow! I don’t blame those of you proclaiming this site anti-Semitic”.
First, the gorgeous and intelligent Marin is voted out for having a “Jewish dog” and now a contestant has used the word “Schuster” in a post.
Heavens to Betsy!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow! I don’t blame those of you proclaiming this site anti-Semitic”.
First, the gorgeous and intelligent Marin is voted out for having a “Jewish dog” and now a contestant has used the word “Scyhuster” in a post.
Heavens to Betsy!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow! I don’t blame those of you proclaiming this site anti-Semitic”.
First, the gorgeous and intelligent Marin is voted out for having a “Jewish dog” and now a contestant has used the word “Scyhster” in a post.
Heavens to Betsy!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A message to all of you getting your panties in a bunch because you don't know the difference between shyster and shylock:
Go buy yourself a dictionary. Don't be niggardly, buy a nice one. Getting offended by words that sound like racist words is a real chink in your armor.
It's "Tropic Thunder", not "Tropical Thunder", retard.
being that this site has a large readership in NY (all of us Jews here), I don't see how the site is anti semitic. Marin was voted off for sucking at life/blogging not for being Jewish.
The only anti-semitic thing about this site is its spell check. If you type in "jewish" it says its misspelled, right click it and it gives you the word newish, not Jewish. It does do the capitalization for "christian", but thats probably because it is a name as well.
My C&F inteviewers gave me a hard time because I got busted selling a couple of pills of Ecstasy. C'mon, its not like I hacked somebody's foot off to exhtort money. Is there really anything wrong if I only sold to friends and acquaintenances? Shit...two of my best customers were a 3rd year female associate and a young partner from a V50 firm.
130 -
You are my hero! If you are currently unemployed or want a new job, I suggest EIC of ATL.
Dear 92:
"Spook", in reference to a person in the intelligence business, is not offensive or inappropriate.
It only becomes so when used as an epithet for an African American.
"Schyster" is not an epithit for Jewsh lawyer, it means unethical lawyer
Dear 92:
"Spook", in reference to a person in the intelligence business, is not offensive or inappropriate.
It only becomes so when used as an epithet for an African American.
"Schyster" is not an epithit for Jewsh lawyer, it means unethical lawyer
110 - Love your backtrack. Way to try to cover up your TTT research skills with an admission that you did TTT research.
130....amazing
I think we can all safely assume that Marin's Jewish dog will NOT be voting for F&D.
Since Kash is unavailable, I write in 130 for EIC.
36:
Run a Google search for "pure of heart" and see what comes up. Answer: nothing with "pure of heart" in it. Most of the results link to sites using "pure in heart."
Let it go and don't be so anal, especially when you have no idea what you're talking about.
DERPDERPDERPDERPDERPDERPDERP
To F&D: Good post. Sometimes, all it takes to keep ATL readers engaged is to start some controversy.
Based on that alone, you have won this round against Sophist.
Keep up the good work!
141 --what are you talking about? I just googled "pure of heart" (with the quotation marks, obvs) and got a bunch of hits.
143, I know this is a hard concept to get, but bad does not equal good.
Nicely done, Michael Scott at 77. Nicely done.
106- Do you realize how offensive the term "Dutch Oven" is to Dutch people (whose ovens, by the way, apparently smell like farts)?
143-- except Sophist _still_ has more posts, and its about the actual topic at hand unlike here where the debate is basically is f&d just a bad writer or a bad AND racist writer
144 -- I just tried it without the quotation marks. if pure of heart is more popular, it should come up with a bunch of hits first. Maybe that's what the poster meant.
It's pure of heart. It just is. Figure it out. You, too, F&D.
151st!
Google Fight!
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=pure+of+heart&word2=pure+in+heart
lol @ 152!
143-- except Sophist _still_ has more posts, and its about the actual topic at hand unlike here where the debate is basically is f&d just a bad writer or a bad AND racist writer
143-- except Sophist _still_ has more posts, and its about the actual topic at hand unlike here where the debate is basically is f&d just a bad writer or a bad AND racist writer
143-- except Sophist _still_ has more posts, and its about the actual topic at hand unlike here where the debate is basically is f&d just a bad writer or a bad AND racist writer
143-- except Sophist _still_ has more posts, and its about the actual topic at hand unlike here where the debate is basically is f&d just a bad writer or a bad AND racist writer
143-- except Sophist _still_ has more posts, and its about the actual topic at hand unlike here where the debate is basically is f&d just a bad writer or a bad AND racist writer
20, what i find offensive is your ignorance and unintelligence. Please do better in the future.
Can people stop engaging in faux modesty by saying things like they went to a "top-6" law school (in one of the above quotes)? Am I the only one that finds that a tad obnoxious?
If you are trying to be modest and don't want to give the name of your prestigious school, say something like "top-10" or "top-20" law school. Saying "top-6" or "top-13" implies that you are obsessed enough with the rankings to know whether your school was 5, 6, or 7. Which itself implies that you are obsessed with how well ranked your law school is.
Signed,
A recent graduate of a law school ranked between 15th and 17th.
Google Fight:
Schyster vs. Goniff
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=SCHYSTER&word2=GONIFF
Google Fight:
Frolic & Detour vs. Sophist
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=FROLIC+%26+DETOUR&word2=SOPHIST
Game, set, match.
Google Fight:
Schmuck vs. Asshole
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=SCHMUCK&word2=ASSHOLE
This game is fun.
Google Fight:
David Lat vs. Tom Goldstein
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=+DAVID+LAT&word2=TOM+GOLDSTEIN
David lat vs. Ann Althouse
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=David+Lat&word2=Ann+Althouse
Who is the [someone who acts in a disreputable, unethical or unscrupulous way] at Latham who edited the wikipedia?
Dear 165:
What was the edit and when?
Dear 165:
What was the edit and when?
"Character & Fitness: Scooter Libby Passed, So I Think You're In The Clear"
Last time I checked, Bill Clinton, John Edwards, and most or all of the lawyers who represent Guantanamo detainees passed the "character & fitness" evaluation. It is sad (though unsurprising, I guess) that F&D feels that she needs to cater to the far-left contingent of ATL's readership to win this competition.
Fed Soc
121 - Wrong, Wrong, Wrong!!! Only in the First Department do you have to wait to send in your c & f paperwork until after you have passed the bar exam. In the Second, Third, and Fourth Departments, you can send it in anytime! Ha!!!!
That is a great piece. F&D wins, going away! Unique topic, well thought out and creative, to boot. F&D, despite the fact I dislike the name, should replace Lat, fer sure!
170 = Frolic & Detour
50: You know the answer to your question--I'd call him the same thing I call a black surgeon or pianist: nigger.
My first time through C&F I got dinged for sneezing during the interview. It was my fault and I took complete responsibility. T482 here.
172=complete ass, and has just officially spoiled the fun. The shyster/shylock back and forths were interesting, but you just brought some bush league amateur racist nonsense into the mix. For shame.
I don't get it. who has ever heard of a black sturgeon? Black Sturgeon Lake, yes. black Sturgeon, no.
http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-700158/Black-Sturgeon-Lake-Brief-Article.html
People have been criticizing the contestants a lot, but it's the comments that I'm having a huge problem with lately (and especially on this particular thread). I used to come here, despite the utter uselessness of the site, because at least the posts were kinda funny, legible, educated, and spelled correctly (mostly). Man, to all of you recent arrivals who have polluted the site with your illiterate drivel, f--k you very much for ruining ATL.
this thread is bullshit.
back on topic.
you will only have problems with C&F if you fail to disclose something which needs to be disclosed (e.g. a mere arrest) AND they find out somehow. even if you are convicted of a crime, unless it goes to your moral turpitude or honesty, you will NOT fail C&F.
This "shyster" thing really took the thread into a "black hole" of ignorance. Maybe people need to be a little less "niggardly" in their use of the dictionary.
-cunning linguist
This message board is so gay
C&F gave me a hard time for a 12 year old marijuana possession case that was expunged. They asked me for documentation that it was expunged. WTF?!
Oh yeah, and when asked why I left the Dean campaign I wrote "Iowa, the Scream". They asked for more details.
I was a paralegal who quit a very small firm without notice - the partners were so dysfunctional that I couldn't stand another minute of it. So far I haven't heard anything from either bar that I have applied to about it - I bet that my former boss never sent back the questionnaire.
"unlike doctors, lawyers' unique responsibilities demand high moral standards as well as professional skill"
Huh?! Sure... no connection between complex life-death decisions and moral reasoning. This sounds like it was written by the world's silliest 1L
I think the funniest thing about the post is hearing someone say they went to a "top 6 law school." Top 6, eh? Now let me guess which of those top 6 you went to.....