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I would give the pimp story more credence if it was not written by Dana Gentry. She has lost all credibility and has gone off of the rails as a propagandist on various stories.
I just checked on health insurance through Nevada health link and through the State Bar exchange. As far as I can tell, the results and prices are exactly the same.
Has anyone seen lower rates for bar members through the State Bar's thing?
I need to do the same. I'm not sure what the advantage is of the State Bar insurance. From an actuarial standpoint we're probably an unhealthy lot. It would be like having a cigarette smokers health insurance exchange.
*underwriting, I should have said.
I'm looking to hire a newly-admitted attorney. What/Where is the best way to find applicants?
Probably through UNLV-Boyd Career Services, I would think.
You can reach out to Rachael Adair or Nikki Harris at Boyd via email (or call 702 895 2326). They'll have a good understanding of which newly admitted attorneys are still in the market for a job.
BYU has a list of students looking to come to Vegas. Contact Beth Hansen, she is very helpful. BYU grads are much better writers fresh out of school than UNLV grads.
At least better than the 2012 and newer crowd of Boyd. Now they take anyone with a pulse.
If you're saying recent Boyd classes are worse than pre-2012 classes (LSAT/GPA, not necessarily wit and charisma) this is demonstrably false.
Nobody here is talking about LSAT/GPA. The discussion is writing ability.
"Now they take anyone with a pulse." How is that a discuss of writing ability? The only metrics on admission are LSAT/GPA. Or was that just a cheap shot at our State's law school that had no basis in fact?
Yes, there is no correlation between writing skulls of a lawyer, and the qualifications of law Scholl students.
skills
Oh, so we're going back to qualifications for law school as an indicator of writing ability. Again, saying recent Boyd classes are less qualified than old Boyd classes is demonstrably false. Thanks for the waltz.
So the qualifications to get into law school have nothing to do with the aptitude of the lawyer? Yeah, that makes sense.
There are two different arguments happening. There's the BYU guy taking shots at Boyd. And there's the guy who is talking about the they'll take anyone these days comment, since that implies that recent Boyd classes are weak sauce and previous Boyd classes were at least OK. You're talking past each other. For what it's worth, BYU is a slightly better law school. As far as who has "better writers," I highly doubt anybody posting on here has seen the writing of more than 5 recent grads of each school. Both schools graduate some great writers. Both schools graduate some horrific writers. Stop.
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Knibb High Football Rules!
FALSE. O'DOYLE RULES!!!
Not mutually exclusive. Both Knibb High Football and the O'Doyles rule.
The only reason Knibb High Football rules is because the O'DOYLES RULE!
Go OBC.
1:15 is absolutely right. In fact, he’s being modest.
BYU is the most underrated law school in the country. If it weren’t for anti-Mormon bigotry, it would be ranked in the top five. Everyone knows this. Just ask a BYU alum.
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>anti-Mormon bigotry
This really isn't a thing.
Not a real thing?
How else can you explain BYU's ranking at #39?
9:14 here (former mormon, just in full disclosure)
How can you explain BYU's ranking? I dunno, maybe its academics, maybe its professors, maybe its 43.8% employment rate at graduation (2017), maybe it's any number of other things. For comparison, the top-30 law school I attended had employment over 75%
As much as mormons (myself included) love to think they're persecuted, they really aren't. It's not the mormons, it's the mormonism (anti-LGBT, mysogyny, meddling in politics, etc etc.) The church can teach whatever it wants, but it can't change the natural consequences of its actions. Mormons are generally nice people though 🙂
Yes, Mormon white males are discriminated against. Look at Chris Rose.
I think several posters blew right past the genius shade in 5:00's post. I got the joke the first time I read it. I'm so smart. I must be a BYU alum.
Off topic. There were questions about the Can Can Man's mustache. That's not a mustache. He has painted a black line around his lips.
I have no dog in theBYU v. UNLV fight, but recent Boyd grads are, as a whole, horrible writers. Not sure what is going on there.
I think it's the emphasis on "writing" tricks at the expense of true research and analysis that lies at the heart of the problem. It's very hard to be a good legal writer if your thinking is muddled and there are holes in your research.
I must have missed the offering of LAW 313 LEGAL WRITING TRICKS. Teaching IRAC/CREAC, organizational structure, paragraph structure, sentence structure, roadmapping, how to tell a friggin story aren't writing tricks. They are the tools to actually convey your argument in a way it will be understood. I agree all that won't do you anything if you can't understand the precedent and nuance in the area of law you're addressing, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't be taught.