Northwestern 1L/2L/3L/Grads Taking Questions and Challenges Forum

[09042014]

Does this journal process seriously take weeks? Dying here.

Dug through my email. Cliff sent out the "calls are about to go out" email on July 10th. He sent the complete journal announcement email on July 31st.

Inefficiency—The Northwestern Difference (TM)

Journal is shit. Cherish what little time you have left.

[franklyscarlet]

Does this journal process seriously take weeks? Dying here.

Dug through my email. Cliff sent out the "calls are about to go out" email on July 10th. He sent the complete journal announcement email on July 31st.

Inefficiency—The Northwestern Difference (TM)

I saw that, but I'm never sure if Cliff is telling the truth. That's why his sweatervests are so big. They're full of secrets.

[homestyle28]

Does this journal process seriously take weeks? Dying here.

Dug through my email. Cliff sent out the "calls are about to go out" email on July 10th. He sent the complete journal announcement email on July 31st.

Inefficiency—The Northwestern Difference (TM)

Journal is shit. Cherish what little time you have left.

[Flips88]

Does this journal process seriously take weeks? Dying here.

Dug through my email. Cliff sent out the "calls are about to go out" email on July 10th. He sent the complete journal announcement email on July 31st.

Inefficiency—The Northwestern Difference (TM)

Journal is shit. Cherish what little time you have left.

Oh this for sure. In a couple months, you're all gonna be:

[franklyscarlet]

Does this journal process seriously take weeks? Dying here.

Dug through my email. Cliff sent out the "calls are about to go out" email on July 10th. He sent the complete journal announcement email on July 31st.

Inefficiency—The Northwestern Difference (TM)

Journal is shit. Cherish what little time you have left.

patience is not a skill of mine. I need to know what flavor of shit I'm going to be swimming in.

[09042014]

Fyi jtip doesn't give strikes for shit work if it's on time.

[homestyle28]

Does this journal process seriously take weeks? Dying here.

Dug through my email. Cliff sent out the "calls are about to go out" email on July 10th. He sent the complete journal announcement email on July 31st.

Inefficiency—The Northwestern Difference (TM)

Journal is shit. Cherish what little time you have left.

Oh this for sure. In a couple months, you're all gonna be:

If our class is any indication 1 or 2 of you will be smart/ballsy enough to bail on it just after OCI and before you sign the commitment thing. The rest of you will secretly admire while publicly loathing those lucky few.

[Icculus]

Fyi jtip doesn't give strikes for shit work if it's on time.

This is mostly true. I was threatened with a strike this past year for not properly entering info into the source and cite spreadsheet that isn't really used for anything. However, that strike was never implemented.


As for timing, it will take three weeks because each journal has to wait for the previous journal to make its calls. It goes NULR, JCLC, JILB, JLSP, JTIP, JIHR (I think, the last two may be flipped). And it takes a few weeks to get through to everyone and get everyone to accept.

[Samara]

If our class is any indication 1 or 2 of you will be smart/ballsy enough to bail on it just after OCI and before you sign the commitment thing. The rest of you will secretly admire while publicly loathing those lucky few.

You can do that? Time to fire up the ole balls tracker.

[Cobretti]

if you had to quantify the workload from law review, what would it be in credits? is it like taking another legal writing class w/o credit?

[Flips88]

if you had to quantify the workload from law review, what would it be in credits? is it like taking another legal writing class w/o credit?

I was going to write out all the shit, but it's a lot of stuff. Probably the equivalent of 2-3 credits of class.

[Magnalum]

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[Flips88]

if you had to quantify the workload from law review, what would it be in credits? is it like taking another legal writing class w/o credit?

I was going to write out all the shit, but it's a lot of stuff. Probably the equivalent of 2-3 credits of class.

Are the other journals a similar time commitment? How much do secondary journals help with getting a job?

I've heard JCLC is a big time sink, but the others are not that bad. Not sure how much they help with jerbs.

[Georgia Avenue]

You should probably suck it up and do a secondary if you don't have any other sort of extracurricular, and I'm talking trial team, competition moot court, etc. If you have one of those, then there's much less of a risk involved in telling journal to kiss your ass.

And yeah, don't do JCLC. Massive time commitment with no real increase in job prospects vs. JTIP, JILB, etc.

[homestyle28]

You should probably suck it up and do a secondary if you don't have any other sort of extracurricular, and I'm talking trial team, competition moot court, etc. If you have one of those, then there's much less of a risk involved in telling journal to kiss your ass.

And yeah, don't do JCLC. Massive time commitment with no real increase in job prospects vs. JTIP, JILB, etc.

One, probably frustrating caveat, I did have 1 employer at OCI ask why I chose my 2ndry and not JCLC because in his opinion JCLC was better than the one I was on.

But the general point that you need a good reason/explanation not to do journal is true, b/c let's face it, otherwise you're just telling a potential employer you don't like work.

[Icculus]

You should probably suck it up and do a secondary if you don't have any other sort of extracurricular, and I'm talking trial team, competition moot court, etc. If you have one of those, then there's much less of a risk involved in telling journal to kiss your ass.

And yeah, don't do JCLC. Massive time commitment with no real increase in job prospects vs. JTIP, JILB, etc.

One, probably frustrating caveat, I did have 1 employer at OCI ask why I chose my 2ndry and not JCLC because in his opinion JCLC was better than the one I was on.

But the general point that you need a good reason/explanation not to do journal is true, b/c let's face it, otherwise you're just telling a potential employer you don't like work.

Somoene actually asked you this? Everyone I interviewed with basically saw it as NULR>>all other journals.

[09042014]

You should probably suck it up and do a secondary if you don't have any other sort of extracurricular, and I'm talking trial team, competition moot court, etc. If you have one of those, then there's much less of a risk involved in telling journal to kiss your ass.

And yeah, don't do JCLC. Massive time commitment with no real increase in job prospects vs. JTIP, JILB, etc.

One, probably frustrating caveat, I did have 1 employer at OCI ask why I chose my 2ndry and not JCLC because in his opinion JCLC was better than the one I was on.

But the general point that you need a good reason/explanation not to do journal is true, b/c let's face it, otherwise you're just telling a potential employer you don't like work.

Somoene actually asked you this? Everyone I interviewed with basically saw it as NULR>>all other journals.

I assume the person acting did JCLC herself. They nearly uniformly have a bug up their ass about missing Law Review and think JCLC is better than the rest.

But from what I can tell, almost nobody who bids JCLC #2 doesn't get it.

[Holly Golightly]

I assume the person acting did JCLC herself. They nearly uniformly have a bug up their ass about missing Law Review and think JCLC is better than the rest.

But from what I can tell, almost nobody who bids JCLC #2 doesn't get it.

Some of us did it because we're actually interested in crim law...

[09042014]

I assume the person acting did JCLC herself. They nearly uniformly have a bug up their ass about missing Law Review and think JCLC is better than the rest.

But from what I can tell, almost nobody who bids JCLC #2 doesn't get it.

Some of us did it because we're actually interested in crim law...

You are only reason the word nearly was in my post. Everyone else seems to be top ten percent of the non ten percent material.

[homestyle28]

I assume the person acting did JCLC herself. They nearly uniformly have a bug up their ass about missing Law Review and think JCLC is better than the rest.

But from what I can tell, almost nobody who bids JCLC #2 doesn't get it.

Some of us did it because we're actually interested in crim law...

You are only reason the word nearly was in my post. Everyone else seems to be top ten percent of the non ten percent material.

the smartest/hardest working 3L I knew was also on JCLC

[splitsplat]

I assume the person acting did JCLC herself. They nearly uniformly have a bug up their ass about missing Law Review and think JCLC is better than the rest.

But from what I can tell, almost nobody who bids JCLC #2 doesn't get it.

Some of us did it because we're actually interested in crim law...

You are only reason the word nearly was in my post. Everyone else seems to be top ten percent of the non ten percent material.

the smartest/hardest working 3L I knew was also on JCLC

I'm a 1L (rising 2L) but I feel like we are thinking about the same person, who is awesome

[homestyle28]

I'm a 1L (rising 2L) but I feel like we are thinking about the same person, who is awesome

huh? to hell with that guy, I was talking about myself!

[Cobretti]

I'm a 1L (rising 2L) but I feel like we are thinking about the same person, who is awesome

huh? to hell with that guy, I was talking about myself!

I bet he meant you

[Flips88]

I enjoyed Dean Rodriguez emailing us to update us on who is in charge of making the academic schedule with no indication of when the schedule will be out. The Northwestern Difference!

[Blumpbeef]

Some of us did it because we're actually interested in crim law...

You are only reason the word nearly was in my post. Everyone else seems to be top ten percent of the non ten percent material.

the smartest/hardest working 3L I knew was also on JCLC

I'm a 1L (rising 2L) but I feel like we are thinking about the same person, who is awesome