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Leonardo DiCaprio · Post by **Leonardo DiCaprio** » Wed Sep 30, 2015 12:09 am

Companion Cube wrote:
Leonardo DiCaprio wrote:what kind of sick psycho VOLUNTEERS to become a legal writing TA
I hope to god you're not referring to some striver 1L

no 2Ls. but still. how demented do you have to be

Companion Cube · Post by **Companion Cube** » Wed Sep 30, 2015 12:18 am

Leonardo DiCaprio wrote:
Companion Cube wrote:
Leonardo DiCaprio wrote:what kind of sick psycho VOLUNTEERS to become a legal writing TA
I hope to god you're not referring to some striver 1L
no 2Ls. but still. how demented do you have to be

We didn't even have TAs for LRW. What benefit could they possibly provide?

Leonardo DiCaprio · Post by **Leonardo DiCaprio** » Wed Sep 30, 2015 12:22 am

jack shit

xylocarp · Post by **xylocarp** » Wed Sep 30, 2015 12:41 am

We have LRW TAs too but they're called "Dillard fellows," presumably because they needed the fanciest name possible to entice people to do it (just kidding, I'm actually pretty sure there's a tryout and it's really competitive. People definitely want to do it here and the Dillard fellows are probably awesome legal researchers and writers). Anyway, they're just there to read all of our crappy memos so that the actual LRW profs don't have to read 2000 pages of godawful 1L legal analysis.

Leonardo DiCaprio · Post by **Leonardo DiCaprio** » Wed Sep 30, 2015 12:49 am

xylocarp wrote:We have LRW TAs too but they're called "Dillard fellows," presumably because they needed the fanciest name possible to entice people to do it (just kidding, I'm actually pretty sure there's a tryout and it's really competitive. People definitely want to do it here and the Dillard fellows are probably awesome legal researchers and writers). Anyway, they're just there to read all of our crappy memos so that the actual LRW profs don't have to read 2000 pages of godawful 1L legal analysis.

god forbid your shitboomer prof somehow work to justify his six-figure salary for working 5 hours per week

Mack.Hambleton · Post by **Mack.Hambleton** » Wed Sep 30, 2015 1:00 am

xylocarp wrote:We have LRW TAs too but they're called "Dillard fellows," presumably because they needed the fanciest name possible to entice people to do it (just kidding, I'm actually pretty sure there's a tryout and it's really competitive. People definitely want to do it here and the Dillard fellows are probably awesome legal researchers and writers). Anyway, they're just there to read all of our crappy memos so that the actual LRW profs don't have to read 2000 pages of godawful 1L legal analysis.

Our instructors aren't even professors, they're like post docs (kind of). And then TAs are 3Ls

xylocarp · Post by **xylocarp** » Wed Sep 30, 2015 1:04 am

Leonardo DiCaprio wrote:
xylocarp wrote:We have LRW TAs too but they're called "Dillard fellows," presumably because they needed the fanciest name possible to entice people to do it (just kidding, I'm actually pretty sure there's a tryout and it's really competitive. People definitely want to do it here and the Dillard fellows are probably awesome legal researchers and writers). Anyway, they're just there to read all of our crappy memos so that the actual LRW profs don't have to read 2000 pages of godawful 1L legal analysis.
god forbid your shitboomer prof somehow work to justify his six-figure salary for working 5 hours per week

Why bother when 2Ls will line up to do it though

xylocarp · Post by **xylocarp** » Wed Sep 30, 2015 1:07 am

Also LRW profs make like $75k on average according to some Yale PDF that was the first search result when I googled it

Leonardo DiCaprio · Post by **Leonardo DiCaprio** » Wed Sep 30, 2015 1:13 am

oh I'm sorry. working 5 hours a week for 75k. how REMISS I've been.

Leonardo DiCaprio · Post by **Leonardo DiCaprio** » Wed Sep 30, 2015 1:16 am

your avatar is literally my face right now.

xylocarp · Post by **xylocarp** » Wed Sep 30, 2015 1:18 am

Don't you care about the FACTS

Leonardo DiCaprio · Post by **Leonardo DiCaprio** » Wed Sep 30, 2015 1:19 am

xylocarp wrote:Don't you care about the FACTS

boomers dont deserve facts

OhBoyOhBortles · Post by **OhBoyOhBortles** » Wed Sep 30, 2015 1:25 am

Being a LRW prof sounds like a pretty sweet gig. I wonder what it takes to be a LRW at Cooley.

OhBoyOhBortles · Post by **OhBoyOhBortles** » Wed Sep 30, 2015 1:26 am

Or U of Arizona/ other warm climate TTT.

OhBoyOhBortles · Post by **OhBoyOhBortles** » Wed Sep 30, 2015 1:27 am

eh, enjoying lrw is probably required. I guess that knocks me out of the running.

haus · Post by **haus** » Wed Sep 30, 2015 1:37 am

My sump pump failed during a big rain storm, my basement flooded, and to limit the damages I have spent the last four hours bailing water. I am sure that tomorrow my back will be killing me.

This is still better that LRW.

OhBoyOhBortles · Post by **OhBoyOhBortles** » Wed Sep 30, 2015 1:39 am

haus wrote:My sump pump failed during a big rain storm, my basement flooded, and to limit the damages I have spent the last four hours bailing water. I am sure that tomorrow my back will be killing me.

This is still better that LRW.

That honestly sucks. Sorry to hear about it. I hope you were/are successful in preventing much damage!

OhBoyOhBortles · Post by **OhBoyOhBortles** » Wed Sep 30, 2015 1:40 am

haus wrote: This is still better that LRW.

Also, this is 190.

landshoes · Post by **landshoes** » Wed Sep 30, 2015 6:38 am

Mack.Hambleton wrote:
xylocarp wrote:We have LRW TAs too but they're called "Dillard fellows," presumably because they needed the fanciest name possible to entice people to do it (just kidding, I'm actually pretty sure there's a tryout and it's really competitive. People definitely want to do it here and the Dillard fellows are probably awesome legal researchers and writers). Anyway, they're just there to read all of our crappy memos so that the actual LRW profs don't have to read 2000 pages of godawful 1L legal analysis.
Our instructors aren't even professors, they're like post docs (kind of). And then TAs are 3Ls

yeah, but the upside is that they're basically baby profs (meaning that they're really smart and did really well in law school) vs the kind of person who becomes a permanent LRW professor (sick maniac)

it does suck for you though that you have TAs reading your shit instead of the actual climenko fellow

IsThisForReal · Post by **IsThisForReal** » Wed Sep 30, 2015 8:20 am

Leonardo DiCaprio wrote:what kind of sick psycho VOLUNTEERS to become a legal writing TA

Usually they get class credit for it

rnoodles · Post by **rnoodles** » Wed Sep 30, 2015 9:17 am

OhBoyOhBortles wrote:
rnoodles22 wrote:
Brut wrote:
Leonardo DiCaprio wrote:
Wahrheit wrote:I felt you all would appreciate this bit from Torts:

"Does anyone want to hold people accountable for their lack of intelligence? Okay, a lot of you, which isn't that surprising given that this is The University of Chicago Law School."
UChi really is a special kind of hell.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_and_Loeb

tl;dr: 2 uchi students believe they're so intellectually superior that they are above the law, plan a "perfect" murder to prove it, then bungle it miserably
arguably still not as good as the Auburn lax player who stole a truck and recreated GTA V because he wanted to see if real life was like the game
Was it? Did he say? Link needed.

http://deadspin.com/lacrosse-player-ste ... 1373632458

Minnietron · Post by **Minnietron** » Wed Sep 30, 2015 12:14 pm

rnoodles22 wrote:
OhBoyOhBortles wrote:
Was it? Did he say? Link needed.
http://deadspin.com/lacrosse-player-ste ... 1373632458

Incarcerated without having battered a prostitute. His experience is like the game when a toddler chews on the controller.

rnoodles · Post by **rnoodles** » Wed Sep 30, 2015 12:48 pm

Minnietron wrote:
rnoodles22 wrote:
OhBoyOhBortles wrote:
Was it? Did he say? Link needed.
http://deadspin.com/lacrosse-player-ste ... 1373632458
Incarcerated without having battered a prostitute. His experience is like the game when a toddler chews on the controller.

The last sentence in this one's great too: http://deadspin.com/marquette-lacrosse- ... 1358281588

Doubt being kicked off the team if he was convicted is that much of a bummer at that point.

Edit: "Is" to "was"

hillz · Post by **hillz** » Wed Sep 30, 2015 3:15 pm

IsThisForReal wrote:
Leonardo DiCaprio wrote:what kind of sick psycho VOLUNTEERS to become a legal writing TA
Usually they get class credit for it

Ours are 2Ls/3Ls picked by the professor. I asked mine what they get out of it, and they don't get class credit or anything. Potentially a good rec letter but sounds like that's it.

acr · Post by **acr** » Wed Sep 30, 2015 5:35 pm

lol. student next to me forgets his written brief for a case (guy has like 2 page briefs for every case, even cases less than 1 page in the casebook) in class today and has a nervous breakdown. threatens to "email administration and challenge no-laptop policy" if cold-called

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