Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

in p-pack i had to keep the silli on the qt and vice versa, but each came with it's own list of bragging subjects, yeah.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

Back when I took the exam, there were 12 people who did better than my 48. I have yet to meet any of them and I'm not sure they're real.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

When I was a first year associate at a large Palo Alto law firm, one of my peers was a recent Harvard grad. On the day the bar results came out, he was the only one among us who was not anxious, and told a bunch of us at lunch "it is statistically impossible for me to fail".

Well, statistics be damned. He failed.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

If they won the case, they might have enough funding to get accreditation.

And, of course, they'd do that, right after they pay out the bonuses.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

So Harvard doesn't do a very good job of teaching statistics.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

{Current consumer debt} + {Balance of mortgage} is one approach, if your spouse would probably continue working, and/or remarry. Insurance salesmen will also tell you to add projected college costs and income replacement, but for many of us that double-counts the mortgage figure, if the idea was you would cobble together HELOC money and loans and/or gifts or financial aid (your kids' father is dead in this scenario, remember).

Shit, an insurance salesman would probably tell you to add up all your debt-encumbered assets and make sure the policy will give them to your spouse free and clear, but frankly, carrying term life so your widow can continue to be a property baron is an expensive way to protect against a risk of becoming middle class, ya know? Enough to cover the primary residence mortgage is enough for me. Let the sucker who marries my wife figure out a way to keep the lake house.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

I'm sure I'm going to regret this nearly as much as trying to explain to the socially tone-deaf Fugee Sister why it was not a good thing to ask our cousin's wife if she is on anti-depressants at a family deal yesterday.

If you just want to enjoy learning and being back in school, take something fun and easy at the nearest community college.

I don't understand what you think going to an online unaccredited law school will accomplish for you besides costing a pile of money. You talk about moving up in your present place of employment but I don't understand what kind of movement you can get from this. Is this something you've talked to the HR dept about?

Will you still enjoy life if you get your online J.D. and find you've wasted all the money and time? I know plenty of un- and under-employed lawyers who went to accredited law schools and regret the time and money they spent.

This just doesn't sound like a very good plan. It sounds like such a poor plan that I'm coming around to the sock theory.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

RT awarded me a BA for my postings here. See if you can get one too.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

From what I understand, vuvuzela night at the Marlins game on Saturday was on par with disco night in Chicago and 10 cent beer night in Cleveland as far as "most successful baseball promotion EVER*" go.

This is my favorite headline, but there are many others. Excellent. My boyfriend has plans for taking one to Texans games to inflict upon Tony Romo and Peyton Manning every time they're calling plays. I imagine there will be a league wide ban by mid September, so he'll have to employ the instrument effectively in the time he has available.



*If mass pandemonium and chaos and possibly tears is your definition of "success."

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

RT doesn't like me. She gave Hank a board but not me.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

I thought that was great, too. Also, for both, the requirement is 4 years and 864 hours of preparation + instruction per year--3500 hours for a slim chance of converting all that work and tuition into being as miserable at work as Icky.

Of course, Abe Lincoln is about 10% more total for all four years than Pace is for one year as a evening student. So if one merely wants to say "I'm a member of the bar" (why, I don't know), it's relatively cheap.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

Like. One multiple-tester I know went to Lincoln Law School. The other went to Stanford. Each took four tries, IIRC.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

The approach needs to be decided based on an assessment of all your assets, including your spouse.

The key to life insurance planning is to factor in both the amount of estate tax your spouse will need to pay and the relative youth and hotness of your spouse. Young, hot, trophy spouse = don't cover all the estate tax; long time spouse your own age = cover the estate tax. Do otherwise, and you insure at your own risk.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

Okay. There is no way this is not a sock.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

Call it up. Ask it out. I suspect you've had sex with a sock before.