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All I Ever Needed to Know, I Learned in Parntership Taxation
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Originally posted by fnordfnordhummingbird
People get themselves into trouble in law school because they always think the easy, logical answer is too easy or too logical. Profs generally don't have the time or the inclination to be crafting cleverly tricky exam or lecture questions. They're too busy writing grant applications and trying to find obscure Swedish trial court opinions for their upcoming article. The only trick questions I saw in law school were the ones that tricked me by not being trick questions.
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One of the smarter people in my section told me this about a week into our first year of law school, and it took me another two or three months to figure out that it was a trick.
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