It's important for a lot of 1L jobs that you prove you can form complete sentences and use proper grammar. Beyond that, most jobs won't really care. They know you're a 1L and don't know what you're doing yet. It's one of those "won't really help you, just doing it badly enough will hurt you" things.

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Question about the winter pro bono thing. I would like to do it but I would also like to visit my family for a week. Are they flexible with things like that or do I have to be in Cville the whole break?

Its the 1st 3 weeks of January - however, I did the first 2 weeks of January because I did a J-term course. They'll have meeting about in November. They will help you find a project in your hometown or in other cities if you prefer not to be in cville. I think most people probably did something outside of c'ville. Some places allow for remote projects and the quality of experience can vary quite a bit.

I personally got about 72 hours of pro bono hours done in 2 weeks.

I did a pro bono project in NYC, just because I wanted to go hang out in NYC with friends over the winter break. They found me something there, it led to a great 1L summer internship, and that has led to other things. I highly recommend the winter break pro bono projects to everyone, even if you're not going to do public service for a living; it'll possibly give you connections for a 1L summer internship and definitely give you something law-related to talk about during 2L OCI interviews.

If there is a specific legal aid society I would like to work for during the winter break is it better to approach them directly by sending in my resume in November, or should I try to go to one of the Public Interest meetings in Nov that you all are talking about and try to do it through the school?

I would go through the school - its a formal program. If you're really anxious then schedule a meeting with Dean Emory to talk about it.

how does uva tend to do in the DC area (not just firms, but all the legal opportunities out there)...does it have a solid rep or do we flood the town so that they're sick of us?

You have to have good grades to work in DC. I have heard this constantly from everyone. It's a small market and everyone @ UVa wants to work there

I would say that if you want to work in D.C. you're going to be needing top 20% type grades.

I thought DC was the 2nd largest legal market behind NYC, or did you mean small relative to the number of graduates who want to work there?

Yeah it's not small; It's just small in comparison to NYC, which is loaded with firms.

so i just started using OneNote and can't seem to figure out how to create a shortcut key for §

anyone know how to do this?

Re: Microsoft OneNote - yay or nay?
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all good suggestions, but seriously guys, if i wanted to type alt + "0, 1, A, 1" (or whatever), that wouldn't be much different than just writing "(D)" or "(P)" or "sec.", right? perhaps i'm obsessing too much over this (actually i know i am ). but for some reason it just irks me that microsoft office doesn't have the same features in each program. the shortcut key just seems like such a simple concept that would be useful to integrate into the note-taking software.


No, go to Insert-->Special Characters

Then find the character. When you do, it will allow you to program your own shortcut, such as ATL+D or whatever. Then everytime you press ALT+D in any MS Office program, it will insert the Delta for defendant.




This function is not on my version of One Note (2007, Vista). I see how you can do this in Word (notice how I mentioned "shortcut keys"), but there is no "shortcut key" option in One Note.

After getting frustrated with myself I think I may have found a way around it...coincidentally, using another feature that often frustrates me as well-- the "auto correct" function. You know, that thing that creates a copyright symbol every time you type (c)?

Anyways, these corrections can be programed to your liking. Go to "Tools" ---> "AutoCorrect Options" and use the "replace:" and "with:" entry blanks to associate keys with their new symbol. I used pf for pi, sx for section and df for delta. So every time I write pf and type a space after it, the pi symbol comes up. Thinking about it, I could just associate "pf" with "plaintiff" (having the feature write out the entire word for me), but I think I've gone through so much frustration trying to figure out how to put these darn symbols in that for my own satisfaction I just need to see them in my notes from now on



There's no option in OneNote, but if you do it in Word, it will work in OneNote . . . at least, that's true in the 2005 suite.
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I have an addition to the procedure I referenced above. In Onenote 2010, I can't just cut and past the § symbol in the autocorrect box. To work around that problem, I had to insert it using the unicode character code: type 00A7 in the box and hit "Alt + x" immediately afterward. Hope it helps!

awesome just fixt it. thanks.

I've been wondering how to do this. Thanks a bunch!

seriously what the hell is wrong with OneNote....where is the find-and-replace option?

Alt-21 with Numlock on should also generate the section symbol.

Hmmm that didn't work for me. What version are you using?

sweet. alt 0167 also works, but 21 is a whole lot easier.

Oh snap! I've been doing alt-0167 all this time. My mind has been expanded

I'd cut that down to more like top 33% (3.4ish), assuming you interview reasonably well. The trick with bidding DC is that it's a good way to end up with like 10 interviews even though you have above-median grades.

We really do have a tight curve. Eh, getting grades is going to be really interesting. Is top 10 percent a 3.6 or a 3.7? I've been getting a bit confused about that.