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Adjudicator wrote:But, what choice do you really have if your goal is a prestigious clerkship?

Kohinoor wrote:Sometimes you just randomly get Law Reviewed though. The week before finals, you actually look around your 16 person Law and the Rights of Indigenous Birds seminar and there are 12 people from Law Review there.

Adjudicator wrote:

Kohinoor wrote:Sometimes you just randomly get Law Reviewed though. The week before finals, you actually look around your 16 person Law and the Rights of Indigenous Birds seminar and there are 12 people from Law Review there.

I'd imagine this tends to happen with classes that are not curved.

G. T. L. Rev. wrote:

flcath wrote:

Adjudicator wrote:But, what choice do you really have if your goal is a prestigious clerkship?

None. This creates the issue addressed by the OP.

Actually, you could just wait to take fed courts until 3L year, after the first big wave of clerkship hiring is over. Then, you'd be a lot less worried about a grades-hit.

A'nold wrote:

G. T. L. Rev. wrote:

flcath wrote:

Adjudicator wrote: None. This creates the issue addressed by the OP.

Actually, you could just wait to take fed courts until 3L year, after the first big wave of clerkship hiring is over. Then, you'd be a lot less worried about a grades-hit.

Does this work if you actually want a clerkship? Like, could just tell the judge that we are taking it "next year?"

Believe it or not, many judges (most?) don't care. They probably want you to take fed courts at some point, but even then, some might not care. I mean, I landed a bunch of COA interviews and an offer without having taken fed courts. I eventually took the class, of course.

And when we looked at people's apps last summer (hiring for my judge for 2011-12), we were impressed by a great grade in fed courts, but I can't recall ever remarking on the absence of fed courts.

Kohinoor wrote:

Adjudicator wrote:

Kohinoor wrote:Sometimes you just randomly get Law Reviewed though. The week before finals, you actually look around your 16 person Law and the Rights of Indigenous Birds seminar and there are 12 people from Law Review there.

I'd imagine this tends to happen with classes that are not curved.

Randomly happened to me in my very not curved PR class.

G. T. L. Rev. wrote:

flcath wrote:

Adjudicator wrote:But, what choice do you really have if your goal is a prestigious clerkship?

None. This creates the issue addressed by the OP.

Actually, you could just wait to take fed courts until 3L year, after the first big wave of clerkship hiring is over. Then, you'd be a lot less worried about a grades-hit.

vanwinkle wrote:

G. T. L. Rev. wrote:

flcath wrote:

Adjudicator wrote:But, what choice do you really have if your goal is a prestigious clerkship?

None. This creates the issue addressed by the OP.

Actually, you could just wait to take fed courts until 3L year, after the first big wave of clerkship hiring is over. Then, you'd be a lot less worried about a grades-hit.

I wish I had done this.

HarlandBassett wrote: wouldnt u be competing with the 2Ls of the next class

HarlandBassett wrote:wouldnt u be competing with the 2Ls of the next class

Renzo wrote:

Kohinoor wrote:

Adjudicator wrote:

Kohinoor wrote:Sometimes you just randomly get Law Reviewed though. The week before finals, you actually look around your 16 person Law and the Rights of Indigenous Birds seminar and there are 12 people from Law Review there.

I'd imagine this tends to happen with classes that are not curved.

Randomly happened to me in my very not curved PR class.

Shiiiit. Same thing happened to me, but the PR class was curved. I was mad as hell when I looked around the room on the first day of class.

G. T. L. Rev. wrote:

Renzo wrote:

HarlandBassett wrote: wouldnt u be competing with the 2Ls of the next class

Yes, but you'd already have been through the clerkship application season, so a bad grade would hurt you less at the end of your 3rd year than during your 2L year.

Also, some schools offer fed courts in the fall, whent he 2L gunners are usually paying attention to other things. So you can slip in, face less competition, and still learn the same stuff--all without the pre-clerkship hiring pressure, since you're taking it 3L year. Best of all worlds, really.

Also, while I feel for those of you who regret taking fed courts 2L year, it isn't like you weren't warned.

HarlandBassett wrote:

G. T. L. Rev. wrote:

Renzo wrote:

HarlandBassett wrote: wouldnt u be competing with the 2Ls of the next class

Yes, but you'd already have been through the clerkship application season, so a bad grade would hurt you less at the end of your 3rd year than during your 2L year.

Also, some schools offer fed courts in the fall, whent he 2L gunners are usually paying attention to other things. So you can slip in, face less competition, and still learn the same stuff--all without the pre-clerkship hiring pressure, since you're taking it 3L year. Best of all worlds, really.

Also, while I feel for those of you who regret taking fed courts 2L year, it isn't like you weren't warned.

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