Confessions of a Litigious Mind

The random, irrelevant musings of a law school graduate.

Monday, April 24, 2006

guess who's back, back again

...the westlaw whore. i went to school today to print out some notes for studying, and in my mail folder i fould a thick westlaw folder, with a note fixed to the top reiterating the fact that my westlaw rep will give me 300 whole points if i let her train me before april 30. so i decided to flip thru the folder.

inside i found answers to such vexing questions as "what is the national reporter system?," "what is a case?," "where do i find cases?," "what is a statute?," and "which cases should i read?"

well let me tell you, if you dont know the answers to these questions by the end of your first year, much less the second, you should not only quit law school, but also life. and further, if she really wanted to train me, contacting me more than a week before finals begin would have been helpful.

yeah, i'm gonna go get trained so you get a little bonus.

13 Comments:

At 4/24/2006 9:38 PM, Blogger d$ said...

i think you and this guy should have a talk about karma.

 
At 4/24/2006 9:46 PM, Blogger josh said...

hahahaha wow. ok see, i think our sample size of 2 is enough to prove karma is bullshit.

bulllllllllllllllshiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit

 
At 4/24/2006 10:50 PM, Blogger Brancibeer said...

What are these points you continue to speak of? Some of us are not lawyers you know (thank god).

 
At 4/24/2006 11:01 PM, Blogger law monkey said...

dicta! she thinks you're a 1L!

i never got that thing in my folder, but i bet you anything (not really) that she thinks you're a 1L, or that you're on some special 1L list. why else would you need training on the west reporter system?

dominique: how'd you embed the link in your post? what's the HTML for that?

brancibeer: basically, these legal research companies entice you to use their services, and in exchange, you get "points" for every time you conduct a search on their site, or if you take one of their pointless quizzes, or if you get "training" on some nonsense or other. the points don't do much of anything, except maybe buy you a cup of burnt starbucks coffee every now and again. you can exchange points for goodies, once you accumulate a certain amt. it's like collecting the bar codes off of bisquick, and then sending them in to win a cookbook or something. totally, completely lame.

 
At 4/24/2006 11:21 PM, Blogger josh said...

to get anything good with the points, you need so many that its almost not possible unless you start from day 1 of law school. essentially, its really really lame.

and even if she thought i was a 1L, it should've tipped her off when my folder is in the 2L section. if that didnt do it, then she's just so stupid i'm ashamed to be her classmate.

 
At 4/24/2006 11:45 PM, Blogger d$ said...

so really its just like "pepsi points" in the mid 90's?

 
At 4/24/2006 11:55 PM, Blogger josh said...

that's a pretty accurate characterization

 
At 4/25/2006 1:07 AM, Blogger law monkey said...

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At 4/25/2006 1:08 AM, Blogger law monkey said...

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At 4/25/2006 1:09 AM, Blogger law monkey said...

haha ohhh pepsi points. reminds me of the case where pepsi had an ad for all of the "cool stuff" you could win with the pepsi stuff points, and at the end of the commercial, there was a picture of a harrier jet with "7,000,000 points" labeled across the screen. some kid tried to collect a million points, or their monetary equivalent, and then wrote to pepsi and said yo, where's mah plane?

well, pepsi didn't think it was very cute, so when kid was denied his plane, he sued pepsi. naturally, the billion dollar company won.

 
At 4/25/2006 9:55 AM, Blogger josh said...

stop deleting comments...dont make me take them away from you!


haha well gab, if what she wants is to check out briefs, she best stick with online porn...dicta's not interested!

 
At 4/25/2006 11:17 AM, Blogger d$ said...

shes barking up the wrong tree. dicta doesn't wear underwear!

 
At 4/25/2006 1:46 PM, Blogger josh said...

aint that the truth!

 

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