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V OVER TO YOU

IV WRITING

Every lawyer and law student has at least one funny story about law school. Love it or hate it, law school leaves indelible impressions on our psyches. Go through these two stories and write your own.

1) We were in first-year torts and discussing slander. The Professor stated that one of the elements of slander was that the defamatory statement must be heard by “one third person.” A student raised her hand and told the Professor she didn't understand.
The Professor went on to explain how if one third person didn't hear the statement it wasn't considered published and didn't fulfill the elements. The student, still obviously confused, asked: "But I still don't understand which 1/3 of the person has to hear it!"

2) Having gone straight from college to law school, I didn’t even own a suit by the time first-year mock oral arguments came around. The weekend before I was scheduled, I hit Filene’s and bought a brand new “power suit.” I looked pretty sharp, felt pretty good, and come oral argument time, I was ready to blow them away.
As I put the suit on, I realized, in terror, that there in very obvious plain view was the shoplifting tag that the Filene’s clerk had left on my jacket! Not having any time to stop at a store to get it removed before the argument, I just went to school, hoping no one would notice. Wouldn’t you know, the first words out of my opponent’s mouth were: “Your Honor, opposing counsel is a common criminal and shoplifter, how can you believe anything this woman says?!”
Needless to say, that comment broke the ice, and I was able to make my argument with a lot less tension.

Here is an abstract from John Grisham’s “Rainmaker”, describing a bar exam. Read the text and fill in the blanks with words from the list below.

socializing the bar exam the competition instruction

WE ARRIVE AT THE HOTEL MEZZANINE early Wednesday morning and are efficiently herded into a ballroom larger than a football field. We are ………. and catalogued, the fees having long since been paid. There's a little nervous chatter, but not much ……... We're all scared to death.

Of the two hundred or so people taking ……. this outing, at least half finished at Memphis State last month. These are my friends and enemies.

I can feel …... here, very much like the first few weeks of law school when we were terribly concerned with each other's initial progress. I nod at a few acquaintances, silently hoping they ……. the exam because they're silently hoping I collapse too. Such is the nature of the ……...

Once we're all properly seated at folding tables spaced generously apart, we are given ten minutes' worth of ……... Then the exams are passed out at exactly 8 A.M. The exam begins with a section called Multi-State, an endless series of tricky……. questions covering that body of law common to all states. It's absolutely impossible to tell how well I'm prepared.

THE EXAM ENDS at 5 P.M. Friday, with a whimper. We're too ……… to celebrate. They gather our papers tor the last time, and tell us we can leave. There's talk of a cold drink somewhere, for old times' sake, and six of us meet at Yogi's for a few rounds.

We learned after the first ……. in law school that it's best never to discuss exams. If notes are compared afterward, you become painfully aware of things you missed.

Unit 5 Law and Lawyers Section 1 Profession of a Lawyer

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