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The Seven Guys You Sleep With in Law School

August 27, 2021 by Law Firm 10 73 Comments

I felt it necessary to represent female law students everywhere with this list of the types of men we girls are forced to turn to for arousal in dire straits.

Filed Under: Featured, Law Firm 10, law school, Lawyer Tagged With: law students, sex

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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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Hey Gunners: No One Thinks Your Big Words Make You Sound Smart

July 1, 2019 by Bitter Professor 1 Comment

Back to school time means back to That Gunner Guy or That Gunner Girl dominating every class discussion by using completely unnecessary Latin terms. If you are particularly unlucky, this year That Gunner will have decided to use something like nihil peti potest ante id tempus, quo per rerum naturam persolvi posit because they are…

Filed Under: Best of Bitter Lawyer, Featured, law school, Lawyer Tagged With: big words, gunners, law

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Top 3 Reasons Why Studying Law Part Time on the Weekend is the Best Thing that Makes Me Want to Die Inside

May 19, 2019 by Weekend Warrior 14 Comments

Learning love the law, one weekend at a time. He is the Weekend Warrior.

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On-Campus Interviews: a Bitter Lawyer Lowdown

November 23, 2018 by Bitter Staff 5 Comments

With on-campus interviews starting this week at most law schools, we go soft and pull out the bitter highlights of our advice for law students.

Filed Under: Best of Bitter Lawyer, law school, Lawyer Tagged With: applying for jobs, job interviews, OCI, OCI Hiring Partners

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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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9 Ways Law Review Will Ruin Your Life

October 27, 2017 by Robin Hitchcock 2 Comments

If you’re headed toward your 2L year, you’re probably freaking out right now about your journal invitations (or lack thereof). But before you accept a position on law review (or smack your head repeatedly into the wall because you didn’t make law review), heed my warning: law review will ruin your life.

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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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