December 14, 2011

The past three years have flown by.  I remember working on law school applications, deciding between schools, and filing my declaration of intent, among the countless lectures, readings, and finals.  Today, finally, I completed one of the final steps in this whole process:  applying for admission tot he bar of Texas, which otherwise means registering to take the Texas Bar Exam in July of next year.  With the slightest trepidation, I printed the final copy of the application, attached a photo and check, and slipped the application in the mail.  Incredibly, now all that lay ahead of me is a round of spring finals and the dreaded bar exam.  

December 13, 2011

Tabs are an amazing invention.  They point you in the right direction and they soothe the seemingly unassailable stress experienced by law students across the nation.  If you see a law student bent over his or her book and a stack of multi-colored tabs, know that this is a form of therapy of sorts.  When no other avenues of study are available, law students often taking to "tabbing" their books for open-book exams.  Today, I came to such a spot in my studying for Texas Civil Procedure and thus, tabbed "DISC" (discovery), "PLEN PWR" (plenary power), "AMEND PLDG" (pleading amendments), and the like.  At the very least, it required me to read through the rules, yet again, and note important exceptions, requirements, and burden shifts.  There is one risk with tabbing, however:  over-tabbing, to the point when the tabs simply are overwhelming rather than helpful.  Here's to hoping I didn't over-tab this time around.