Posted on 12/15/2014 4:34:54 PM PST by madprof98
[O]pponents of exam extensions have declared that to grant these requests [to delay exams for "distressed" students] would be a disservice to the students. Law students, they argue, must learn how to engage critically with the law in the face of intense adversity. Drawing comparisons to events surrounding the Civil Rights Movement and other times of intense turmoil, these opponents portray today’s law students as coddled millennials using traumatic events as an excuse for their inability to focus on a three-hour exam. In essence, law students are being told to grow up and learn how to focus amidst stress and anxiety—like “real” lawyers must do.
Speaking as one of those law students, I can say that this response is misguided: Our request for exam extensions is not being made from a position of weakness, but rather from one of strength and critical awareness.
Although over the last few weeks many law students have experienced moments of total despair, minutes of inconsolable tears and hours of utter confusion, many of these same students have also spent days in action—days of protesting, of organizing meetings, of drafting emails and letters, and of starting conversations long overdue. We have been synthesizing decades of police interactions, dissecting problems centuries old, and exposing the hypocrisy of silence.
I have seen the psychological trauma brought on by disillusionment with our justice system send some law students into a period of depression.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationallawjournal.com ...
He must have a trust fund, or (more likely) be looking for work as a community organizer.
We have a couple of professional judge-baiters in our circuit. They spend a good deal of time in the court lockup. It's all theater, but not appreciated.
A judge is just a lawyer with too much power.
I’m guessing William got into Harvard Law on the strength of his affirmative action credentials.
This =^..^= is at Harvard. I wonder if he took any classes from Ben Edelman?
Millennials in the Workplace Training Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz0o9clVQu8
I haven't laughed as hard in months as I did from the comments. I am guessing that most of these are real attorneys and they seem...um...unsympathetic, to say the least.
My own effusive thanks is on the part of my baby sister, a lawyer of 30 years' private practice who remains stubbornly on the Left side of the political spectrum despite knowing better. I intend to show this to her. Oh, my yes. I shall not report her comments lest I be banned...
What a bunch of wimped-out whiners. Take your tests, you pampered losers.
First we kill all the lawyers...
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