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Originally posted by fnordfnordhummingbird
Your other observation is crap. Law review is thoroughly useless. 90% of what I edited was pseudo-intellectual gibberish postulated by blowhards.
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And you have the temerity to lecture me that the purpose of law school is to prepare one for the actual practice of law? I can think of no better boot camp for the life I lead today. And that's just the Politics Board.
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But goddamit, if you walk into a trial court without an understanding of how the appeals court is going to review what happens, you're committing malpractice.
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Well, duh. Of course you should know in advance which incantation the three weird sisters are going to use over the cauldron. I said the real world
application of the standard of review is known only to appellate justices. It turns out it's a lot more flexible than your professors would have you believe. Corollary: "harmless error" is a doctrine that arose merely to allow an appellate justice to say what the law is, but not actually to apply it to the case at bar.
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3. If you can't be a genius, be prepared. If you can't be prepared, be contrite. If you can't be contrite, go to medical school.
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That's a good one.
