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By Neil, 18 February 2009

Not only did she get an interview with US Attorney’s office for her summer internship, she was just given the “Employee of the Month” award from the Law Library . But seriously, I am really proud of Kate and all her achievements. She has really worked hard this first year in law school and is taking every advantage offered to her. She is a real trooper.

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By Kate, 6 October 2008

I wish more of these were offered at USD.

I just want to confirm the rumors: it is true, law school is hard.
Right now I am studying for my Torts class (ok, technically right now I am writing a blog article in an attempt to avoid studying for my Torts class). To give you a little idea of what that is like this is a quote from my current reading:

“Historically, the tort of negligent infliction of emotional distress had raised two concerns: (1) establishing authenticity of the claim and (2) ensuring fairness of the financial burden placed upon a defendant whose conduct was negligent. A court deals with these concerns by exploring in each case such public policy considerations as: (1) whether the injury is too remote from the negligence; (2) whether the injury is wholly out of proportion to the culpability of the negligent tortfeasor; (3) whether in retrospect it appears too extraordinary that the negligence should be too likely to open the was to fraudulent claims…”

There are about a bazillion more points… but, you get the picture. If you were not even slightly tempted to
(a) skip the paragraph

(b) fall asleep

(c) light something on fire

(d) buy a one-way ticket to Mexico & never look back

while reading that excerpt, I suggest you enroll in law school immediately. It will be a real barrel of monkeys.

If you had any of the aforementioned reactions to that paragraph, I suggest you stay far, far away from law school & keep thinking that the definition of tort is what is pictured above. Trust me, you’ll be happier in the long run.