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Seven Tricks of Law School Networking 101

January 6, 2021 by Bitter Contributor 34 Comments

To prepare for gut-wrenching, mind-numbing “networking” events, here are a few exercises that can steel you for boredom, humiliation, and awkwardness.

Filed Under: Columns, Featured, Featured Lawyer, law school, Lawyer Tagged With: Bitter by Numbers, bitter rant, law students

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4 Reasons for Law Students to be Thankful This Thanksgiving

November 26, 2019 by Bitter Staff 3 Comments

Drinking, free food, and evil uncles. What more could you ask for over Thanksgiving?

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Six Last-Minute Bar Exam Tips

July 25, 2019 by Lisa Needham 1 Comment

Let’s have real talk. By the time you see this post, you are under 24 hours away from taking the bar exam. What should you be doing with those last precious hours? What should you do to maximize your ability to not die during the process? Believe it or not, we have tips. And not…

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Bar Exam Survival Tips, Because You Need All The Help You Can Get

July 15, 2019 by Stefan BC 2 Comments

Throughout most of the country right now it is graduation season. Across thousands of colleges and high schools, scores of new graduates are celebrating remarkable academic accomplishments with their families, all while planning for a future full of hope and possibility. YOU on the other hand went to law school, so your graduation felt either like…

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Five Absurd Mugshots, Just In Time For Halloween

October 30, 2018 by Bitter Staff 2 Comments

Ahhh, the sweet smell of schadenfreude. Let’s face it, we’ve probably all worn a stupid costume or two in our time, but yours probably wasn’t immortalized in a mugshot. (Yes, yes, fine, we did originally write this for Halloween, but c’mon – it’s funny all year around.) 1.This fairy may have wished those wings were real.…

Filed Under: Columns, Featured, Featured Lawyer, Lawyer Tagged With: Featured, halloween, mugshots, stupid is as stupid does

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10 Things Never To Say To Your Law School Prof

September 4, 2018 by Bitter Prof 3 Comments

1. Sorry, I got high/drunk/laid last night is not a valid excuse for missing class 2. “Because I got high/drunk/laid last night, I missed class. I can’t make it to any of your office hours, so could you come in on the weekend and tell me everything I missed in class?” 3. “My other grandmother…

Filed Under: Bitter by Numbers, Bitter Rants, Columns, Featured, Featured Lawyer, law school, Lawyer Tagged With: Featured, nope, professors, profs

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7 Deadly Sins of Law School

August 29, 2018 by The Northwest 3L 2 Comments

Across the country, law students are entering their august institutions. We here at Bitter Lawyer are happy to guide these students through the perils of their epic quest for a J.D. by reposting helpful tidbits provided by those that came before them. Stand on the shoulders of bitter giants, students. Everything has its own special…

Filed Under: Columns, Featured, Featured Lawyer, law school, Lawyer Tagged With: 7, envy, gluttony, greed, lust, pride, seven, sins, sloth, wrath

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Torts Will Destroy My GPA

October 9, 2017 by Bitter Student 2 Comments

Oh, law school. Where to begin? I know! Torts. Oh, torts. You are awful. I am not even sure why. You are like the Magic-Grow Animals of the law: The concept seems simple. And then, it grows. Exceptions creep in. Half the Restatement rule was picked up, but the other half was not. Slotting the…

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Law School is Full of Gossip

October 3, 2017 by Bitter Student 1 Comment

I have survived “mid-terms,” aka “early-semester indicators of stupidity,” so it appears that I will not need to drop out of law school and ride the rails, hobo style, mourning my inability to understand the elements of battery. I will not publicly lament my grades. Wait, screw it. Yes, I will. OMIGOD, law school. These…

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Law School Mid-Terms Should Not Happen in September

September 25, 2017 by Bitter Student Leave a Comment

Inexplicably, we have begun midterms. I know, we’re like four weeks in, so how can it already be the middle of the term? It is not. It would be more accurate to call these, early-semester indicators of your stupidity, but obviously the profs decided that was a bit wordy. You may think from last week’s…

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