"they're like"...not "their like"

hold on a sec... Did they get the name wrong, is that Claudio Simpkins?

Didn't the cops KNOW WHO HE IS???

I know that guy from the subway ads!!

this guy was on all those subway ads in NY for CCNY. dayamn.

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This him?
http://www.nysun.com/new-york/how-two-cuny-superstars-forged-a-friendship/33838/

Just goes to shows that once a TTT always a TTT, even if you get into HLS

7 = EPIC FAIL

Also, the usual EPIC FAIL guy = EPIC FAIL

Is it really appropriate for the DA that was employing him to also prosecute him? Even though this appears relatively minor, I would think that calls for a special prosecutor or prosecution in a different venue, you know, to maintain the appearance of propriety and all that. If the DA's office doesn't do that automatically, then Simpkins' attorney better do it, because the DA he was working for is going to go out of his way to nail this guy's ass to the wall--especially with an officer hurt during the arrest process.

So basically a guy gets drunk and acts inappropriately. Yay.

7 = EPIC FAIL who did not get the memo.

3. Yep. But that's his middle name.
Meanwhile ... Blago ... wow. "It's like in the schoolyard, where the kid hits you, but it wasn't that kid ..."
--Elie

Which bar in the Theater District was it?

http://bigsight.org/c_claudio_simpkins

HAHAHAHA - Poor Claudio

Anyone else notice that that is a picture of BU not harvard?

Here's his RNC interview

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-O2l-onS_Q

I don't know what's worse checking my stock portfolio or visiting this site to see which one of my friends has been laid off today....

What's the big deal? He didn't do anything wrong.

I've seen this guy on the subway! I guess the posters will be coming down.

What bar was it?

What a blowhard. I liked how he worked the HLS into the NY Sun article, before he attended a single class.

#14 is offensive. Please moderate.

Harvard? HAHAHAHAHA You have no idea how to party. By the way, what was the racial background of the police officers involved?

Prestigious gentlemen in my preparatory academy ruined their future and their father's name quite often. It certainly was not a significant event.

CCS = AAadmit

Frat stud?

no, fart stud

-27

Whoopie! Another law school related post. This blog is so 2007. Elie, get your motorcycle ready! You, my friend, are jumping the shark.

How was this guy a "promising Harvard Law School standout," as per the article? He was an unpaid intern in the county DA's office. Which basically means he was there as part of some pro bono or clinical program (of which HLS has dozens), which (a) takes no skill to get into, and (b) he obviously had time for because he wasn't doing the things the REAL HLS standouts do (Law Review, Ames finals, etc.). Also, he summered at a mid-tier NY firm (Patterson Belknap), which means his first-year grades weren't anything to write home about.

That said, this is a silly incident to get worked up over. The guy was drunk and made an idiotic remark. Big deal.

I don't get the "is what Obama could have been" comment. Obama did pretty damn well for himself, even if he does have the nation's worst job.

I am offended by 23's overly inquisitive behavior. Please moderate.

If you are a subway commuter in NY city you could not help but see this guy over the last 3 years. CC put his face on so many subway ads as graduating from there and getting into HLS. Glad he is still at Harvard, but this is a set back.

A Black Republican. This is so ridiculous it should really be an oxymoron.

Seeing as all law schools read the same text books, cover the same areas of law, and have roughly similar exams are HLS students actually any better in the real world practice of law than those graduating from the rest of the top 50 schools?

Heh, because this guy is black and went to HLS he is "what Obama could have been." By that logic, Elie could have been Obama.

My guess is this guy is probably a pretty smart dude who made some dumb comment. He appears to be an excellent self-promoter so I'm sure he will turn this media exposure into something.

Wow, this guy really brought the sass.

32

Read the linked article. It was more serious than that. He fought with the police, sending one of them to the hospital. He said his boss was a bitch. There was much more to this story than reported on ATL

"Seeing as all law schools read the same text books, cover the same areas of law, and have roughly similar exams are HLS students actually any better in the real world practice of law than those graduating from the rest of the top 50 schools?"

Comments like these always crack me up.

the student has been identified as RusTTTy Danger

Hah, I remember this kid from when class of 2009 people were applying to schools -- he was a ridiculously smug poster on lawschooldiscussion.org who was dead-set on Virginia, trying to network with all the UVA-bound students for weeks until Harvard finally let him in.

36:

HLS students are dumber. They pay full-price for lousy teaching by profs more concerned about their own research and scholarship, whereas most students at other top 50 schools pay much less for lousy teaching by profs more concerned about their own research and scholarship.

Practitioners and judges recognize that the Harvard brand today is useless. 20-30 years ago it meant something. Today, not so much.

36,

Let me explain to you the logical mistake you are making by way of analogy. Suppose that two sprinters are training for a race: they have roughly the same budgets for equipment, they spend comparable hours training and even employ very similar training techniques. One sprinter is the humble author of this post, while the other is Usain Bolt. Who do you think is going to win the race?

What have we learned?

That's just the stress talkin', Dude.

Just goes to show you, you can take the guy out of City College, but you can't take City College out of the guy.

36,

Yes. I didn't go to Harvard law (a long way from it), but a disproportionate number of the Harvard attorneys I've worked with have been very good. For the most part, you don't get into harvard law unless you're really smart, work really hard and are ambitous. These are the qualities of good lawyers. It has nothing to do with the curiculum or quality of instruction.

What bar was this fracas at?

10, 13 - Sorry, I graduated from high school 12 years ago. Can you tell me what EPIC FAILS means?

too much xoxohth?

Can we please have our comments be a little more professional.

18 - That's a picture of Pound Hall @ HLS, not a BU building.

He was on YOUTUBE discussing politics?
Big deal indeed.

42 - Wasn't he John Galt on lawschooldiscussion? seemed pretty bright to me. Sad this happened.

31, should Elie get his waterskis ready, not his motorcycle?

18 is wrong; that is Pound Hall; definitely HLS.

47,

You get into HLS because you performed well on an LSAT test, which is no indicator of competency to be a successful practitioner. You also get into HLS if you have certain activities or attributes (non-intellectual ones) that are reflected in or become apparent from your application.

Students who go to HLS are bright. But students who go to other schools are just as bright. In fact, many students who do not go to HLS work much harder than many students at HLS because HLS, whether intentionally or otherwise, breeds a culture of "the hardest part is over, just sit back and enjoy the ride."

In sum, the degree from HLS, by itself, means little. It is not an imprimatur of genius or intellect, and it is not an indicator of success in the real world. HLS grads are subject to layoffs and application rejections, just like everyone else. Except they may have a ton more debt over their heads.

44:

I made no logical mistake. My post stated the constants (curriculum) and left open the question of the variable (as to whether they actually had more intelligence/skill).

Had I posted a statement, then you could assume I made a mistake. But, it was a question.

I understand your mistake. Punctuation is probably very difficult to see from your ivory tower.

-36

58,

Your inferiority complex is showing...

Relax.

One quibble with this post: Simpkins is a law student; not a lawyer. Title should be revised accordingly.

LOL at all the bitter HLS rejects with their "students who go to other schools are just as bright." If the claim was "some students at other schools are as bright as some HLS students," obviously this would be true. As a group, that is just an absolutely ridiculous claim.

57 and 58: Thanks for reminding me why I stopped reading this site in the first place.

Claudio = why I hate lawyers. Seemingly nice on the exterior, but nothing but an a$$hole inside.

36 = RusTTTy Danger = depaul law grad/night program

I only hope that someday I can appear on a major network, such as Youtube.

54 - John Galt went to Yale. Claudio had the picture that is on the bigsight.org page as his LSD moniker. He was super obnox. He was overzealous on the UVA board and then vanished when he got into HLS, at which point he trumpeted it to all of LSD. Huge tool.

33 - I googled that quote. It was a conservative blogger who said that Obama would never win the presidential election because the nation won't elect a commander-in-chief who is not right of center. Swing and a miss.

57 - You are obviously suffering from a bad case of HLS envy. Seven justices of the US Supreme Court are HLS grads, including the Chief Justice. The President of the United States and the First Lady are HLS grads. Moreover, the editor-in-chief of Above the Law is an HLS grad. What further proof do you need as to the superiority of HLS grads?

"We didn't get our forty acres and a mule, but we did get you, CC."

57 speaks the truth.

Who knows if any of the quotes are accurate. You cna't trust the vast majority of police in Boston.

This sucks. I been in a few of his classes at HLS and know him through student orgs and he's a really good guy. I hope that this doesn't impact his very promising future.

Don't tase me bro!!!!!!

Rather, I'VE been in a few of his classes. Dang.

- 70

70 Dont worry, RUSTTTY Danger will still make it to the top of the trombone circuit

This guy sounds like an arrogant, insufferable douche. It's better people find out now than later (a la Spitzer).

I think a lot of the vitriol rightly comes from the fact that this douche was an AA beneficiary yet wants to tug the ladder up from under him. At least Barack didn't even tell HLS that he was black.

Too bad he pulled the evidence off his profile - http://lawschoolnumbers.com/csimpkins/jd

Check out the douchebag's mugshot:

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/2009_01_29_DA_intern_booted_after_arrest:_Cops:_Law_ace__bar_don_t_mix/srvc=home&position=5

54 - Galt is Nate Smith and goes to Yale.

GIMME GIMME GIMME

-Greedy Black Conservative

67--

The individuals you reference attended HLS in an era in which the HLS prestige meant something more than it does today. It's comments like those that are on this blog that reveal the idiocy in maintaining some superiority for HLS. If HLS were so superior, then other lawyers would have no ability to compete because all positions would be taken by HLS graduates. Your contention, along with others on this blog that HLS students are so superior, is simply ridiculous.

This guy was made for Douche Patrol.

47: I suspect your experience is based on a relatively small sample or is otherwise skewed. I can't really disagree with 57, and I'm an HLS grad myself.

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"Don’t you know who the f*ck I am? I’m the Juggernaut, bitch!"

57,

While I agree that there are bright people at Fordham and GW and the like, to claim that top law students don't work hard is insane. If you ever stepped foot in a T5, the amount of gunning done by hopeful SCOTUS/COA clerks is insane. The gunning continues well into 3L year as competition for honors intensifies.

Barack Obama. So hard to infer anything about his name.
Also its not like this kid goes to Yale- he'll probably just end up a cog in a corporate machine like most HLS grads

57 - 79
You've got a real serious case of HLS envy. So you were rejected by HLS. So were thousands of others. Get over it. BTW - to assert that an HLS degree ain't what it used to be is belied by the fact that the majority of present and future Supreme Court clerks are HLS grads. Apparently, the current members of the Supreme Court do not share your opinion. Neither does the person who hired Elie Mystal to be editor-in-chief of ATL.

I also know Claudio at HLS. He's generally liked, known to have terrible taste in politics (Fred Thompson?) and is not thought by anyone to be a standout academically. Many of us have seen him stupidly drunk, so this story is no shock. Yet the article and the comments have it backwards. Nice guy. Not an allstar.

What is the average debt of a law school graduate?

Common knowledge that this guy scored a 160 LSAT...

81
I've got an idea for you. Perhaps you can start some crazy-assed website, call it something profound like "evilesq," and expose to the world that you are a lame-brained coot?

"You don't need the bullet when you've got the ballot."

This story is absolutely awesome--a perfect example of the kind of hubris elite law students develop. Awesome.

He was a Truman Scholar!

"...anything you say WILL be used against you..."

JAJA douchebag.

I CLAUDIO was a great movie.

G-U-N-N-E-R!

G-U-N-N-E-R!

Can we please discuss the law in a professional manner?

Longhorn2L

94, that's obvious. Since some Democrats hate white people (Jeremiah Wright is not a Republican), we can infer that all Democrats hate white people, and therefore a White Democrat is an oxymoron.

Pics of his girlfriend marion please. My brother is a cop, and he loves nothing more than busting arrogant ass students. "Do you know who i am" is the fastest way to get thrown in the back of a black and white.

Drunk and disorderly means that he probably was told to do something by an officer and he mouthed off to them.

Pics of his girlfriend marion please. My brother is a cop, and he loves nothing more than busting arrogant ass students. "Do you know who i am" is the fastest way to get thrown in the back of a black and white.

Drunk and disorderly means that he probably was told to do something by an officer and he mouthed off to them.

Republican young and screwing up already? At least the script has been written already for this one.... FIND JESUS. Those red-staters eat that crap up.
(See GWB)

Being black is just the frosting on the cake.
(see today's Washington Post)

Ha!! Good luck explaining this to the Character & Fitness Committee, Claudio.

35=racist

Meh, Claudio is as Claudio does. I'm buddies with this guy, and I gotta say that he is pretty bright. It'd be a shame to ruin his future because of a few dumb drunk comments. Trust me, I've seen HLS students at the Kong - his comments are innocuous compared to the shit you hear at 2:30 am there.

I was in a class with Simkins last year--Housing Law. He was the most articulate person in the class, by far. It was worth listening when he spoke. I hope this doesn't derail what I believe is going to be a great career as a lawyer.

85:

I was accepted to HLS but opted to go elsewhere. I think that you will find many of the comments here are not "envy" but rather the "reality" that you and others like you simply do not want to recognize.

There are those individuals who are from an era long gone who will perpetuate the importance of pedigree over substance, and so that is why you will see the same schools disproportionately represented in certain positions. This does not mean they are better that other applicants. It simply reflects the biases of those who make the selections.

haha, this is that ghetto dude from the subway ads, something all of New York's youth should aspire to

he is from the nyc subway ad.

Hi, my name is Charlie, and I'm an alcoholic...........HI CHARLIE !

It never fails to amaze me how badly cocky people cannot function in life.

No matter who your daddy is, when dealing with cops, just be polite and contrite. Especially Boston cops, they'll arrest merely for asking directions.

57-79-105
"I was accepted to HLS but opted to go elsewhere." Not only do you have HLS envy, but your decision making skills are questionable. Good luck with your career!

"They still call it the White House, but that is a temporary condition."

110:

105 here. I'm a member of the judiciary, you quack. I did pretty well for myself without the HLS JD and without the HLS debt.

80 -

47 here. Small sample is probably the issue. The Harvard partners I've worked with are no better or worse as a group than any other partners. The people who make it (especially the junior partners) tend to be good lawyers across the board, regardless of law school (it's probably the same with associates at the very best firms).

That said, out of the five harvard associates I've worked with closely, three were stars. It's totally anecdotal, but something I've noticed nonetheless.

104, really? one of the most articulate peeps in your class? I watched his interview on youtube and he is a decent orator at best. Harvard is as TTT as advertised.

111, sounds like an ALJ.

112, but what percentage of Harvard people made partner, as opposed to those from other schools who tried?
Obviously if you cut out everyone below a merit-based filter, the remaining people are pretty similar in merit, regardless of their school of origin.

he's the guy from the subway ad! my tax dollars paid for his ugly mug to advertise a third rate public institution (not to mention subsidizing his tuition at said institution)- but at least a second-rate law school is looking bad in the process.

Yes 35, because republicans hate black people. Also all republicans are the same, as are all democrats.

This guy went to a TTT undergrad.

160 LSAT!!!!!!!!!!!

It never fails to amaze me how badly cocky people cannot function in life.

No matter who your daddy is, when dealing with cops, just be polite and contrite. Especially Boston cops, they'll arrest merely for asking directions.

Yes 35, because republicans hate black people. Also all republicans are the same, as are all democrats.

Someone has held this guy out as being smart because he was articulate in a Housing Law class? I mean, I'm sure a City College grad is intimately familiar with both the Projects AND the Houses (not the mention the Homes), but still...

57-79-105-111

Excuse me, but I'm not the one who allegedly turned the opportunity to attend HLS. Debt is temporary, the opportunity to attend the same law school as Elie Mystal is priceless. Besides, I didn't know that members of the judiciary could spend all day trolling at ATL. I'd like a job like that. Where do you work, The People's Court, or Judge Judy?

"God Bless Chocolate City, and its surrounding vanilla suburbs."

Yes 35, because republicans hate black people. Also all republicans are the same, as are all democrats.

Harvard scum.

123:

Judge Judy. You feel that warm sensation covering you right now? It ain't rain.

Does whoever made the last 2 posts own a time machine? How are his time stamps at 3:04?

Between the ATL website, me, or my computer someone is an idiot. I'm afraid it may be me.

99-
he didnt have to get thrown in the back.
he hopped in the back and demanded a ride.
took all the fun out of it.

11 - did you read the article? He will be arraigned by a special prosecutor not affiliated with his (former) boss.

He got in the 160s on the LSAT.

Trust some 3rd rate reporter of the Boston Rag and ruin a promising young man's reputation. Lovely. The Boston police are corrupt.

Trust some 3rd rate reporter of the Boston Rag and ruin a promising young man's reputation. Lovely. The Boston police are corrupt.

Hey 111, will you knock my 85-in-65 down to a parking ticket? kthx.

I really dont care how articulate Simkins was in some Housing Law class at HLS that probably 5 people attended on a regular basis. This kid is a fool, and the Character and Fitness committee should make him wait at least 1 yr before admitting him (if he passes the bar; something tells me he will be too arrogant to study).

I really dont care how articulate Simkins was in some Housing Law class at HLS that probably 5 people attended on a regular basis. This kid is a fool, and the Character and Fitness committee should make him wait at least 1 yr before admitting him (if he passes the bar; something tells me he will be too arrogant to study).

111, it is a bit of a stretch for a courthouse janitor to call himself a member of the judiciary.

A real judge would obviously be working at 2 PM on a weekday.

Just a guess here, but I suspect that the HLS 3L in question "may" have a tiny substance abuse issue.

Of course, there is no person that a cop delights more in arresting than a lawyer, except perhaps a Harvard lawyer. (The young man is lucky he did not brandish DA office creds; he would have been additionally charged with impersonating a law enforcement officer.

129--

I did read the article, though apparently not carefully. How nice that they put in the last paragraph that a special prosecutor was going to do it. In the first paragraph, they say Conley is going to prosecute him.

--11

129--

I did read the article, though apparently not carefully. How nice that they put in the last paragraph that a special prosecutor was going to do it. In the first paragraph, they say Conley is going to prosecute him.

--11

Meh, Claudio is as Claudio does. I'm buddies with this guy, and I gotta say that he is pretty bright. It'd be a shame to ruin his future because of a few dumb drunk comments. Trust me, I've seen HLS students at the Kong - his comments are innocuous compared to the shit you hear at 2:30 am there.

"A proud conservative, Simpkins seemed destined for a future of unlimited potential."

I've heard him talking... he's not conservative, he's a Republican.

45 = under appreciated lebowski reference

I love the Good Will Hunting shout out.

105/111: Who gets into HLS and then "opt[s]" to go to a school where he can make it on merit alone? Were you worried that the favorable biases of "those who make the selections" in our society were going to hurt your career? Was the prestige going to outshine your blinding brilliance? (And are you joking about the debt? HLS tuition is among the cheapest of the T14 and pretty comparable to any other school that can compete in the same legal market.) Although I'm skeptical that you are in fact "a member of the judiciary," I am certain that you're a dumbass.

Hey, careful, man, there's a beverage here!

Apparently police claim that after he was arrested, Simpkins said, “Dan Conley [the DA] is a (expletive), but he’ll get you (expletives).”

I wonder what those expletives were

This nonsense about Harvard lacking substance that lesser schools supposedly have is nothing more than serious insecurity. You really think scoring 170+ on the LSAT and having a 3.7+ GPA average is nothing but "prestige points?" The fact is, all lawyers had 4 or so years in undergrad to test our academic abilities. The ones who got into HLS did better on that test. Usually much better than you.

Note this doesn't mean HLS grads make better lawyers. It does mean that over a number of years, their performance was better than yours at the tasks they were given.

This is scary stuff to read. There, but for the grace of God . . .

147:
"It does mean that over a number of years, their performance was better than yours at the tasks they were given"

In other words, they are trained monkeys. Or at least a lot of them are. I respect somebody who fucked around a bit (literally and metaphorically) in college and afterwards and in the process became a well-rounded and well-adjusted person. Now mind you, I'm not talking about any dumb asshole who fucked around in college. But I'm sure you can conceive of a brilliant who took whatever the hell they wanted to in college, cared about learning for learning's sake, dispensed with they bullshit "tasks they were given," and only realized at a much later date that he wanted to go to lawschool - that guy gets some respect
had to go to a lesser law school as punishment for his freethinking ways (i.e., for not worrying so much about the tasks "given" to him, but about making a way for himself as a man in the world) -

First to coin a new phrase....TT1T

Translation: Typical Tier One Turd

7 is offensive!!!!!!!!!!!! am I the only one noticing this?

I thought the new policy was supposed to get rid of commentary that sounds like the script of a porn clip? Come on. I feel enough shame from actually going to porn web sites, and now this?

I don't see why this would really affect the kid's legal career. He got drunk and said something stupid, nearly everyone has done something like this at some point in his life.

152: He got drunk and (tried to) invoke his employment with the District Attorneys Office to induce two police officers to violate their general orders by giving him a ride home. He did it in a very obnoxious manner unbecoming of a District Attorney employee (or, for that matter any law firm considering hiring him) and he obviously has extreme substance abuse issues. Last, he managed to obtain wide ranging publicity and notoriety in the legal community of his indiscretions.

I think that this severely that limits his job prospects, don’t you?

someone please define "vague prestige threat" and explain how it applies here.

"Ivy League irritant Charles Claudio Simpkins, 24, allegedly climbed into the back of a police cruiser dispersing night crawlers from the Theater District early Saturday morning and in a refreshing new twist on “Do you know who I am?” demanded of officers, “(Expletive) you, give me a (expletive) ride, I work for the district attorney’s office.”"

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1148542

67 - You're wrong about the justices. Only five justices graduated from Harvard Law School (not seven).

The non-HLS justices: Stevens (Northwestern), Thomas (Yale), Ginsburg (Columbia - but attended Harvard), Alito (Yale).

Maybe you could count Ginsburg as 0.5. That still gives you only 5.5 HLS justices.

seriously...fuck you all...you're all a bunch of people who deserve to die.

Hahahaha, this idiot arrogant kid got what was coming to him. Ha ha ha ha. He got a lesson in real-world living. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Such a moron for thinking he can fuck with the police. Dumb motherfucker who plays the race card like a pack of cigarettes.

HA HA HA. WHAT A FUCKING LOSER. DON'T MESS WITH THE COPS, SON.

This stupid kid deserves a beating and a long prison sentence. Stupid shit-for-brains no-good kid. Can't even control himself or his drinking. Thinks he's all that. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA. Go fuck yourself, loser.

Claudio, you give all of us lawyers a bad name. You are nothing but a lousy jerk. I hope you never get to practice law. I hope you get kicked out of school. I hope you get prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. I hope you go to jail.

No one likes you. Go move to a secluded area and live out the rest of your pathetic days.

NO ONE LIKES YOU. GO AWAY NOW.

157 = Claudio. No one is going to hire you, son. I would not hire you, ever. I don't care what the Hiring Committee thinks - although I doubt they'll disagree with me - I will pull rank. You will most definitely not get a job.

You have a lot of growing up to do. A lot.

lol...why all the hate? he's just a dumb douchebag.

Game over, Simpkins. Game over.

Charlies is a lousy fat fuck. Nothing more.

Claudio, you are, without a doubt, the most idiotic idiot on the face of this planet. Did you cheat your way into Harvard after watching that movie about forging SAT scores? I guess you did the same with your LSAT's. You are a crying shame to this profession. I want nothing to do with you, ever.

You lose, Simpkins, plain and simple. It doesn't get much clearer than that.

Time for you to choose another career. Ha ha ha.

Wow. What a way to throw a career down the drain. Such a waste.

Umm, he just got drunk and said something stupid. Yeah, he's an arrogant SOB who got put in his place, but it's not like he attacked the cops (he knows he would've been given a serious beat down if he tried). Leave him be...he knows his mistake and probably will never practice law.

Claudio = TTT

Simpkins is a disgrace.

Get out, Cladio. Just GET OUT.

Claudio the Law Failure:
A Poem

Once upon a time,
there was a boy.

His name was Claudio.
His game was drinking.

He demanded a ride,
And threatened the cops.

And got his poor self sent
to Riker's Island.

He woke up today,
and realized he failed.

He knows he's a failure.
A failure-failure-failure.

Claudio, that's him.
Claudio, the failure.

Gimme a C. Gimme a L. Gimme an A-U-D. Now gimmie an I, and gimme an O.

What's that spell?

F-A-I-L-U-R-E!!!!!!!!

Grow up. Just GROW THE FUCK UP.

Do you think Claudio's reading this while getting reamed in the ass in jail?

Does anyone think that Patterson Belknap is going to find out about this?

He also had only a 163 LSAT and a piss poor GPA. He had no business attending Harvard, or any other top law school.

Claudio is a great guy and he's still going places. He just needs to stop hitting that bottle so hard, like many law students and lawyers. Claudio has come through a lot and, in the grand scheme of things, this is just a small setback. And given the racist behavior of the Boston cops, I wouldn't be surprised if what actually happened was way different from what we've been told.

178 is totally wrong. Claudio's GPA and LSAT were considerably higher. He may not be a model citizen, but let's not turn this into an excuse to lie about his qualifications.

180 is totally wrong. His lawschoolnumbers profile was posted on xoxohth for a long time, and he had a 163 and a ~3.56 GPA. Many of his posts on the forums were arguing that he was not an affirmative action admit, but rather, that he was admitted because he was a Truman Scholar. Of course, he probably got the Truman scholarship in large part due to his race as well.

People saying he'll never practice law are talking out their asses. This is a misdemeanor, and will lead at worst a 1-year admissions delay.

Quit fear-mongering.

149,

The problem is that every student at a TTT assumes he/she is one of those "exceptions" that COULD have done well had they had the desire. Perhaps they could have, but the fact that they chose to mess around in undergrad seriously questions in my mind their ability to get their act together in law school. Laziness and poor work ethic is a pattern of behavior that is not so easy to correct.

I agree that someone with a 164 has the sufficient intelligence to be as good of a lawyer as someone with a 174, but what I'm saying is that a poor undergrad record in a lot of cases reflects a poor work ethic that won't let that 164 shine through.

Everybody knows that Boston cops are racist. Remember how they attempted to arrest a bunch of black Harvard undergrads for playing flag football on campus?

EXPLAIN - how does the fact that he is a conservative supposed to have any bearing on his arrest?

It's not your fault, Elie. Listen to me girl, it's not your fault.

149 and 183:

You are assuming a lot of people didn't fuck around in college and get into HLS anyways.

Or that a lot didn't work really hard and still not get in.

Big deal. He hops into a cab car and asks for a ride home. I remember doing that in undergrad and the police drove me to my dorm. Of course, that happened in California.

The cops could have just asked him to get out. But they didn't. Typical. RACIST BOSTON COPS.

Big deal. He hops into a cop car and asks for a ride home. I remember doing that in undergrad and the police drove me to my dorm. Of course, that happened in California.

The cops could have just asked him to get out. But they didn't. Typical. RACIST BOSTON COPS.

Big deal. He hops into a cop car and asks for a ride home. I remember doing that in undergrad and the police drove me to my dorm. Of course, that happened in California.

The cops could have just asked him to get out. But they didn't. Typical. RACIST BOSTON COPS.

Claudio didn't ASK for a ride. He DEMANDED one and the cops refused. Claudio remained in the car and threatened to ruin the officers' careers. He also abused his connections with the DA's office.

One of the officers involved was black. 190 et al. is probably Claudio.

Resisting arrest is not always a misdemeanor. Claudio resisted in a violent manner, causing an officer to be hospitalized. Claudio's career is over.

190 is probably Claudio or Claudio's boyfriend.

Simpkins, make sure you make friends with Bubba!

The guy sounds like a total jerk.

It seems that this young man didn't know that when you play the Ivy-class game, you open yourself up to a lot of repercussions. The police actions were allegedly based on his behavior. If not, then he has grounds for a suit. However, his job and career losses--independent of whether the police were right or wrong --were and will be the result of his mouth, his ARROGANCE, and his disdain for everyday working people. This isn't racism. Don't mourn for the graceless and arrogant.
--an Ivy alum

Hey 184,

Too bad the bulk of Harvard (minus HBS and some other buildings) is in Cambridge, not Boston. Boston cops don't arrest anyone in Cambridge, sucka.

Anyone know what's happening to Simpkins with respect to HLS? Anyone seen him around campus lately?