I got accepted to law school today!!!! I'm tremendously excited beyond words, this has been my dream for years and it has finally come to fruition. I've applied to four, and the first to come back gave me the acceptance letter (Appalachian Law School). I'm still holding out for another one before I make any decisions, but I'm pacing my office like a lunatic and can't share it with any of my coworkers (yet).

Anyway, I just wanted to share my stoke.

 

Oh great. Just what we need. Another lawyer.

Just kidding pal. Great profession. Congrats on making the grade.


Just be a good one!

franc

 

Good for you 04,

Hopes and dreams, become reality.

Congrats!

 

congratulations

 

Congrats.

If your coworkers comment on the pacing just mutter something about too much coffee.

 

Good point, I HAVE had too much coffee after all.

I do plan to be a good lawyer, not into criminal law or anything of that sort. Looking to go into tax law, as I have an economics degree.

edit...and thank you all for the kind words!

 

Well done! See that justice is done, and break the old "lawyer = liar" tradition!

Send me a few dollars from your first (vast) pay check!

 

I'm actually looking at going to law school in the next couple years. specializing in maritime and transportation law. i think.

Congratulations, I know its a thrilling experience to achieve what you have longed for for some time.

 

Congrats!

Just don't become a trial lawyer and run for political office.

 

great job! tough stuff LSAT's sucked huh?

 

Congratulations! I know exactly what you're going through, and thanks for sharing.

I had dreamed of law school throughout undergrad, and banked on getting accepted to one school. I nearly killed myself stressing over the LSAT, and took it the day after returning from deployment. I didn't get the score I wanted, but it was good enough. When I was accepted, I told my National Guard family, but since I was an employee at a competing school, I couldn't couldn't tell anyone at work. It drove me crazy!

 

Oops, I forgot to mention: The graduating class was one short three years later. (That's good news for Franc, I'm sure.) Two weeks into my L1, I was deployed again, and had to drop out.

 

That is kind of where I was fortunate. I didn't stress about the LSAT, and didn't study for more than a month. I was very fortunate to the get score I did, which wasn't breaking any records but wasn't bad. If I had studied more thoroughly I probably could have set my sights heigher but I'm very satisfied with this particular school. The test definately makes one nervous, and gets your stomach in knots. I felt like my brain was put through a wood chipper upon finishing.

Also, I can't tell anyone in my workplace due to the fact that I'd be leaving here in the fall if I accepted a position at the school. That would put my place of business in quite the predicament. I do wish I could tell several of my good friends here though.

I can just share with my good friends here though!

SRT6nTulsa, hope to meet you at the Tail of the Dragon this April. I live in Maryville just outside of the dragon and hope to make it (finally).

 

Well, I must admit I do feel better now.

I kinda had gotten to like you last fall at the Dragon. You know, two single guys and all that pretty scenery.

roadster with a stick

 

Franc you're a freaking hoot

Congrats to 04xfirecoupe... that's a great achievement

 

Congratulations buddy, It is a fantastic experience. The LSAT is a cake walk compared to what you're going to go through your first year. The first year is the killer, if you make it through that, you're home free. I went to a night school while working full time. I saw people who were better students than I throw in the towel that first year. We had 43 students at the beginning of our first year class, 10 of us made it to the second year. A whole lot of them flunked out but quite a few chickened out. The second third and fourth year (3/4time) they just threw us all in the same class and rotated the years. I went 1,4,2,3,. Very weird!

Make friends with the students who are a year ahead of you and ask them to help you prepare for your exams. They went through them and still remember the issues and pitfalls. Professors hate coming up with new exam questions and often re-use or re-hash the same exams year to year. Even if they write new exams, they often file the old ones in the library so the students can read them, read them!

Buy sample essays in the bookstore. Avoid the long ones, they're perfect, but you will never have enough time to replicate them on a test. Seagles (sp?) are good and doable. Issue spotting books are good and of course flashcards. Law in a box are really good but rather long, great for the Multistate BAR exam, but very time consuming. A short stack is better for class essays. Canned briefs will kill you, they are like a drug. They make it easy to brief but you will pay on the days of your BAR exam. You gotta read the cases in their entirety.

I took the California BAR once and failed it. A week before I was going to take it again my dad had a stroke that ultimately killed him. I was executor of the estate and one thing led to another. To make a long story short I never took it again. My girlfriend is always bugging me to give it another shot or two.

I'm tempted, Your excitement is encouraging and an inspiration to this sixty year old.

 

Thanks for the kind words, and it's definately good to hear some advice from a Juris Doctor. My undergrad had very similar types of available assistance (i.e. an entire section in the library dedicated to past-exams of teachers available for study). I've heard the resources at this particular school are above average, and it has decent BAR passage rates. I have a friend who is going to law school in San Diego (I believe it is Thomas Jefferson School of Law) and he has advised me from his experience. He has spent most of his time in the library, but being in his second year he has said it is considerably different.

I'm looking forward to it quite a bit, but I still have alot to figure out. The Crossfire may have to go because it is my pleasure car and my daily-driver 4Runner is paid off. This is of course a very sad thought, but I'll face that once I get to that point. I have to look into financial aid and have completed my FAFSA for assistance.

 

It was my pleasure, best of luck and keep us posted. I'm sorry to hear about the Crossfire but you're smart to sacrifice it for future benefits. When you study Pennzoil v. Texaco you'll realize the earning potential of lawyers= Great car in your future.

 

I agree, sacrifices now lead to long term rewards.

P.S. I think its funny about Pennzoil v Texaco that both companies are now owned by Shell.

 

it seems there is even less of a shortage of wanna-be lawyers than there is of actual attorneys ...

I too am among those who wanted quite badly to go to law school, but got derailed by circumstance and ended up doiing something else ... I can't tell you how many times I've wondered what life might have been like had I been able to chase my dream ...

Lucky you that you are going to be able to do so .... congrats on that and best wishes as you go forward ...