http://www.eve-marie.com/legalinsanity Blogging the Journey from Law Student to Unemployed Attorney, One Freakout at a Time Mon, 25 Aug 2008 01:34:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ah, that time of year that reminds me that, for an ever-so-brief period in 2006, I was a lawyer. MCLE is due for me this year, kiddies. That means I need to cram 10 hours (5 participatory) hours of legal learning into the tail-end of this year. Joy. I'm getting my 5 (participatory) ... http://www.eve-marie.com/legalinsanity/?p=71 It's that time of year again - children are running and playing, birds are chirping, happy people are barbecuing and sipping mint juleps on their porches (or something) - and not a recent law school graduate is to be seen. It's barzam time. It's been three years - three years! - since ... http://www.eve-marie.com/legalinsanity/?p=69 During law school, taking notes on my laptop became infinitely easier (and speedier) once I set up shortcuts in Word. When I typed "la", for example, it became "lawyer", "cp" became community property, etc. Those shortcuts still live in my computer, so sometimes while I'm typing something, up pops "fertile ... http://www.eve-marie.com/legalinsanity/?p=68 ... I guess there was a bar exam or something in February. 1,500 visitors in the past two weeks. Holy crap. Short and sweet: -- I don't know what's going to be on the barzam. Don't believe predictions anyway. PLEASE don't believe the predictions. (For more elaboration on this, please see Chapter 26 ... http://www.eve-marie.com/legalinsanity/?p=67 After the craziness of the holidays died down, I found myself with 5 minutes free tonight. I discovered a colleague on LinkedIn, and then I thought to myself, I wonder if there are any more to find on Lawbby.com? Remember that site launched in 2005 when we were all excited ... http://www.eve-marie.com/legalinsanity/?p=66 Please read this Woman's Day article. It's about a friend of mine. We need a lot more lawyers like her, and a lot less of the other kind. http://www.eve-marie.com/legalinsanity/?p=65 As you can tell from the lack of posts here since, oh, December 2005, I am far, far away and removed from the barzam game. If you're looking for your barzam fix and to cheer on a very worthy and deserving barzam candidate, look no further. Go here forthwith and ... http://www.eve-marie.com/legalinsanity/?p=64 "Like many of his classmates, Grayson went on to get a law degree, in part because 'it took away the questions about your ability.'" Amen. BusinessWeek, 3/12/07. An article including Stanley Grayson, now President and COO of M.R. Beal & Co.; became the first African American to head the muni bond department ... http://www.eve-marie.com/legalinsanity/?p=63 Inactive. http://www.eve-marie.com/legalinsanity/?p=61 So, FINALLY, IE becomes compliant. And now my current design looks like crap in IE 7 (the way it's looked in Firefox all along, natch.) I'm working on the problem, and at the rate I've been attending to the rest of my neglected website, much less this section, it should ... http://www.eve-marie.com/legalinsanity/?p=60