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Re: Michigan Bankruptcy Laws re: Correspondence Law Students
Posted by Crap schools make crap lawyers on 11/02/08

    YOUR CURRENT "LAW SCHOOL" DOESNT PROVIDE ACCESS TO WESTLAW
    OR NEXIS CUZ IT AINT REALLY A LAW SCHOOL.

    Its a self study mail order degree from a guy's spare
    bedroom.

    YOU WILL END UP SUCKING AS LAWYER EVEN IF YOU EVER PASS THE BAR

    On 11/02/08, Crown Prince wrote:
    > All I wanted to know was if the Rittenhouse decision was still good law. I have taken legal research at an ABA
    > school, and am familiar with Shepardizing, Keycite, all of Nexis, Westlaw, etc. Free websites can give you almost
    > any district, appeals or SCOTUS decision, but do not provide information as to whether or not this is good law or
    > not, as they do not provide links to other cases, precedent, etc.
    >
    > My current law school does not provide access to Westlaw or Nexis.
    >
    > Thank you for the information and your time, and the lecture.
    >
    > I will have the memo, with a proper reference page, on your desk first thing in the morning.
    >
    > I think I will just call Rittenhouse up and ask him. It would be a lot faster.
    >
    > Crown Prince
    >
    >
    > On 11/01/08, -- wrote:
    >> I think you owe me a report (memo) on what you find in your future research on whether the Rittenhouse case
    >> [291 F.3d 925 (2002)] is still good law. You may have to go to the law library to do your research or you may
    >> be able to use the "Find Law" free site to do some of your research (probably not all of your research
    >> though). I gave you the Shepard's report so 90 percent of your work is done in finding out if Rittenhouse
    >> [Id.] is still good law. In your memo (if you choose to honor me) please use pin cites in Blue Book format.
    >>
    >> Research is the most important part of the practice of law. It looks cool to see the lawyers on Boston Legal
    >> get up and wing it in court with a great speech which wins their case. That is TV. In a real practice you do
    >> research until your eyelids can no longer be held open before you open your mouth. You may have to go to a
    >> university or supreme court law library to do research even if you do have a Lexis or Westlaw subscription
    >> because not everything you need is there. Books are cool. Hours go by and you find you learn much more than
    >> with the click of a mouse.
    >>
    >> Have you ever Shepardized a case by book? It is tedious and time consuming. It is the way lawyers did it
    >> until a few years ago and many still do. In law school we had to do manual Shepardizing even though we had an
    >> electronic version. It was really good training. But of course you need a law library to do that, something
    >> that WCSL doesn't have for you.
    >>
    >> Finally--I want to point out that the research you requested was available online through free search engines
    >> except for the Shepard's report I decided to include for you. In the real practice of law, the guy you ask for
    >> help on research paid his/her dues to learn how to research and they will most likely tell you to do your own
    >> research. You are a student so I helped you.
    >>
    >> Let me know what you find.

     
     

 
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