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Monthly Archives: June 2010

Em-Dashes, En-Dashes, and Hyphens: Oh my!

I have to admit that I did not know the difference between these three characters before my last semester of law school. When was I supposed to learn about these punctuation marks? The last English class I took was in high school, and first-year legal research and writing in law school did NOT cover these [...]

How to be a POWER Networker in 10 easy steps. Just Kidding.

So the title says it all. I’m getting more and more frustrated with people on Facebook, Twitter, or other websites that are constantly selling their products or wanting you to visit their site and buy their “consultation” services. I think the networking gurus are the most frustrating of all. I’m not going to name names [...]

Put on a Happy Face

I can’t even begin to tell you how many articles are out there about how bad the legal job market is right now. I get it, the market isn’t what it used to be. Career services has told me this, the Wall Street Journal has told me and Above the Law keeps me going with [...]

And BarBri just keeps on going

I don’t know where it started to go wrong. I was feeling so positive and enthusiastic about the whole thing. I was determined that I could take on the bar with a lot of hard work, determination, and hours of studying. I just needed to take it one step at a time, follow the study [...]