Card games have transcended the divides of class and culture for centuries. In my family, this timeless hobby serves as an essential experience at any large gathering. Different games have been taught and passed on from generation to generation. I started my journey with my grandma trouncing me in Pinochle, and I plan to carry on this tradition with my own grandchildren.
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My 1L Summer Internship: From Classroom to Practice
Before this summer, most of my experience with the law had been in the classroom. I had spent my first year of law school reading cases, writing memos, and learning how to analyze legal issues, but I had never really had the chance to apply those skills to “real life.”
Continue readingSo You Want to Be a Bostonian: Weather
Welcome to the greatest place on earth. It’s probably smaller, colder, and meaner than wherever you came from. Still, you couldn’t have picked a better city to spend law school, or perhaps a lifetime.
Boston is many things; welcoming is not one of them. Our winters are cold, our people, even colder, and our insular culture can send you packing before you even hear someone say “wicked”.
Luckily for you, the prima facie case for being accepted as a “Bostonian” is as follows:
Continue readingWhat I Needed to Know Before Starting as a Summer Associate
Before starting as a summer associate, I was so anxious thinking about whether I would know anything that would have to do with my job. Considering I had only learned what transactional work was during 1L spring semester, all I knew was that I was (mostly) free from the Bluebook.
Continue readingWhat Clients Taught Me that I Couldn’t Have Learned Alone
I applied to work in legal research at a time when all eyes were on the police.
My hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, had become a national case study for the consequences of overpolicing, and I realized how little I knew about the legal systems meant to prevent such harm. My first research project, which I began during a separate internship in healthcare data science, focused on understanding the interactions between law enforcement, victims of violence, and healthcare workers in emergency spaces. While research allowed me to formalize my conceptual understanding of certain gaps in our legal system, I grew increasingly interested in litigation as a means to work directly with the affected stakeholders and establish precedents that might shape those systems moving forward. This led me to my postgraduate job in economic consulting, where I was able to apply my academic background in a setting where I could observe what attorneys actually do in litigation and arbitration disputes.
Continue readingBLSA and BAN’s Welcome Back BBQ
On Sunday, August 30, BC Law’s Black Law Students Association (BLSA), in collaboration with the Black Alumni Network (BAN), kicked off the academic year with our annual Welcome Back BBQ.
Continue readingThree Tips for Taking Care of Yourself (in Law School and in Life)
I’ve written a lot about making sure to take care of yourself. But some may not know how to do that, or may forget in the moments when it’s needed most.
When it feels like everything is on the line and your head and heart are pounding, it is easy to forget what a glass of water, a warm drink, a walk, or a hug from a friend can do. And even if none of those things fixes it, they may give you just enough relief to breathe, think clearly, and formulate a game plan.
So, without further ado, here are my go-tos for when life feels like a merry-go-round going full throttle (and also on fire).
Continue readingThe Anatomy of a Defense: How Criminal Justice Led Me to BC Law
17 minutes. That is how long the prosecution claimed it took our client, an engineering student visiting the U.S. from a war-torn country, to attempt a homicide and flee. When I mapped the cell-tower pings, calculated the distances, and cross-referenced the surveillance timestamps, their argument collapsed. Physics, it turned out, would be our best defense.
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