Deep Breath: Bar Results This Friday

We don’t have to tell you Law Launch Project folks that the bar results list will be out Friday — this week must be filled with lots of hand-wringing for you, but you’ll know soon. The Board of Law Examiners will release the pass list and the Tennessee Bar Association will have it on our site ASAP. In years’ past it’s been around noon, but we won’t know for sure until we get it. After you pass (positive thinking, please!), you’ll be invited to a lovely event at the TBA in conjunction with the Supreme Court Swearing-in Ceremony.  Look for the results at tba.org.

We Won! We Won!

The Tennessee Bar Journal won a Luminary Award from the National Association of Bar Executives last week for The Law Launch Project. This is kind of a big deal and we are proud of it. The award is in the category of Special Publications.

One of the judges said “Awesome idea and execution! I love the comprehensive approach: The project spans print, digital and social media, and features law students of all ages and backgrounds. In this way, the project truly fills the stated objective of providing a snapshot … of the future of the legal profession.”

This is bound to be a good omen for our 15 participants, who will learn this Friday if they have passed the bar exam. I’m betting YES THEY WILL.

The Law Launch Project: Graduation Edition

In the June issue of the Tennessee Bar Journal, we look at how members of the Project are feeling about the end of this road called Law School. A little more than half of the group have jobs lined up, but it’s still early since the Bar isn’t for another 6 weeks.

 

The story is a reflection and a look forward:

“As the students look back, many seem a little bit in shock. They are proud that they were able to weather the unsteadiness, the unending reading and somehow were able to juggle all that while still (in varying degrees) living their lives.
Their comments may sound familiar to you lawyers — that last year of law school is probably still seared into your brain — but some things are likely a little different in 2014 than when you came through.”

These are some interesting people who have overcome much and accomplished a major goal. Read their stories here:  LawLaunch_Grad_June2014

Free Help for Starting Your Own Practice

Several of you have said you are interested in starting your own firm right out of school. Have you seen this new resource from the Tennessee Bar Association?

The Solo-in-a-Box Toolkit has sections specific to starting out —  on business, technology, insurance, budgeting, marketing, human resources, mentors and more.

Best part: IT’S FREE.  Just go to http://www.tba.org/node/66492

After you try it, let us know what you think.

Not So Long Ago

Can you believe you thought these things just a few months ago? So you can look back and be reminded how far you’ve come, here’s a recap from

LAWLaunch_March2014

and LawLaunch_April2014

and LawLaunch_May2014

 

Reality

The reality is finally starting to set in. When I leave my Domestic Relations class (lecture) tonight it will be for the last time. All that is left are the final exams. We’ve all worked so hard and put in countless hours of study it seems hard to believe the time has finally arrived. What a bittersweet moment it is.

You learn by living

Hrs away from the very last law school class. At a wonderful immigration law seminar by the TBA learning to help others to avoid deportation. I’m soooo ready to practice!

You’re Up

The next time the Tennessee Bar Association posts a story like this, your name will be on the list (YES IT WILL):

Tennessee Bar Exam Results Now Available

http://www.tba.org/news/tennessee-bar-exam-results-now-available

Skyrockets in flight…afternoon delight…aaaaafffffternoon delight!

This is possibly my all time favorite song and this post has nothing to do with the actual meaning of the song so don’t panic.  What it does have to do with is the fun we can have in law school.  Were we not able to laugh at the things we don’t know, the people we go to school with and mostly ourselves, I can assure you we would never have made it this far.  There have been times in my four years I have had to leave class because I was about to burst out laughing in the middle of a lecture.  Could be from something that happened, one of our witty professors or something someone (myself included) had said.  Either way, I have bitten my lip, literally, and had tears streaming down my face more than once.  Mind you, this all happened after my 1L year when I was scared to even smile or have an emotion.  But the story of Afternoon Delight is one for the books…

Law School by the numbers

I notice a trend among 3L’s…we have become mathematicians.  Well maybe not full-fledged mathematicians, but we are sure doing a lot of counting these days…most of which is counting down.  I know I am as guilty of this as anyone…in just a few hours I will be down to 3 days of showing up for classes.  Notice I didn’t say 3 days left…so maybe some of that “thinking like a lawyer” has sunk in over the last 3 years because I am counting in a light most favorable to my position.  This counting down has got me thinking about some things…so here goes my law school experience by the numbers. (Please excuse my math if a few of these are rounded off, after all if I could do real math I would have gone to medical school…right?)