Monday, March 20, 2006
He'd have competition
More in the water
- Overheard by VLJ
Something in the water
After 30 seconds of awkward silence
Civ Pro prof: Hmm, that didn't come out quite like I imagined it would. I was referring to the powerpoint.
-- Overheard by EN
Sunday, March 19, 2006
MarchMadness (part 2)
Evidence prof: "Mr. 2L -It's obvious that you are paying more attention to that screen then to me. So. Tell the class what you know... What is the score?
March Madness (part 1)
Evidence Prof Email to the Class: "Montana won it's NCAA playoff game last night. I can't find the Michigan score, how did Michigan do?"
The title of his Email was "the Real UofM" ....
Friday, March 17, 2006
Master of the Obvious
Trial Advocacy Professor: That's not a good idea....
So That's Why Law School Is So Popular
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Well as long as we are getting our money's worth...
Evidence Professor: "We were just glad to have you in class, asleep or awake. Asleep you were the source of entertainment for the class."
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Roll Tide
And I thought that being a lawyer was going to be sexy
Friday, March 10, 2006
No, really, it was that bad.
Non-law student: I never really know where to put my pants to make them look and feel best.
Non-law student #2: That's easy. You put them in between the tummy and the fupa.
2L #1: Oh god I'm going to be sick.
2L #2: Negligent infliction of too much information.
OOOH BURNED
Conversation b/w Torts Prof and 1L about whether a plaintiff assumed the risk…
1L: "How drunk was she?"
Prof: "How drunk do you want her to be?"
1L: "You don't want me to answer that question."
Prof: "Well now we know what it takes for Mr. 1L to get a date."
-- Overheard by Anonymous
Perpetuate stereotypes? at law school? no way!
1L female: But there are other things that women can do in the military besides serve on the front line.
Con law prof: Be secretaries?
1L female: No, like...
Con law prof: Cooking?
--Overheard by JC
and you thought YOUR gunners were bad...
Torts Prof: "Assume that I'm drowning, 1L, and you walk by and see that I'm drowning. Do you have a duty to rescue me?"
1L: "Well, do I know how to swim?"
Torts Prof: [visibly annoyed] "Sure"
1L: "Is this the ocean, or a river?"
Torts Prof: [more annoyed] "It doesn't matter...a river."
1L: "Is there a strong current?"
Torts Prof: [very frustrated, barks out:] "I'M DROWNING! YOU WALK BY, 1L! DO YOU RESCUE ME?"
1L: "That depends, do I know it's YOU?!"
Overheard by Law Student
Intentional Infliction of Ugly Distress
Overheard by E
Equal spooning rights
(two minutes later)
Female 1L #2: "When I spoon with girls, it's usually with my sisters, and I get into trouble, because they forget that I'm not their boyfriend. All of a sudden I'm like 'hey, you just grabbed my ass -- what are you doing?' "
Thursday, March 09, 2006
Why Are You Single Again?
The joys of Con Law Seminar (part II)
2L "the Federal Government regulates the sizes of Barbie's shoes - why can't they regulate viberators?"
3L "But what is the non-morals based rational basis for the ban?
2L:"I don't know - I think the Government could regulate the amount of voltage in a vibrator.
Think of the possible health and safety issues.
Different 3L "I just think that this shows that the people of Alabama are afraid of orgasms."
The joys of a Con Law Seminar on free speech (part 1)
Con Law Prof:"Oh yeah, you're gonna lose your account."
God bless the laptop
(two minutes later)
Maybe you already have.
Hot Babes!
It doesn't matter where you go
Robbing from the rich and the courts give it to the..
How to view testimony
Wednesday, March 08, 2006
At least we're not 1Ls...Part II
2L: *gives a funny look to 1L*
Nervous 1L: What? Is that wrong? Oh, god, please tell me that's right?
2L: Sure. I mean, I really don't remember if it is or not.
Nervous 1L: Oh, god, I am going to get below median.
2L: You sure are. *chuckles*
Me too.
Torts Prof: “Now, let's move on to satisfaction and release. I too thought it was going to be much more fun than it really is.”
-- Overheard by anonymous
Out of the mouth of babes
1L: Basically? A womb for hire.
-- Overheard by MO'M2
Caring 1L's
-- Overheard by MO'M2
More Scalia Hating
Submitted by BD
Tuesday, March 07, 2006
reporting for duty, sir!
3L in last row: Soda water!
Prof: Huh?
3L: Soda water will get the stain out.
Prof (looks to the door and then back at 3L): No, no. Soda water will have to wait. I can't leave my post!
Hindsight is 20/20
2L: I think that’s a great idea. I wouldn’t have taken certain classes if we had one of these last year.
1L: I wouldn’t have come to law school if you’d had one earlier.
Anonymous grading? Oh, well in that case...
Evidence Professor: "Mr. 2L what do you think? Is this statement getting in?
2L: "Oh. I'm sorry. Just because I was looking at you doesn't mean I was paying attention."
Monday, March 06, 2006
Eh. Is that a term of art?
Con Law 2 Prof (a british guy so imagine the accent): "Sodomy is (pause for effect) something that leaves a bad taste in your mouth and a pain in the butt."
Holy Times
2L: Festiveness?
Evidence Prof: Mardi Gras is over. We’re into Lent; the glass is half empty.
Whew!
Student: Um....
Prof: Oh, don't worry. They don't enforce them. You shouldn't worry.
They made a movie about that?!?
Ms. 2L: (pause) I don't know. You've got me at a part where I forget how it went in the movie.
Friday, March 03, 2006
At least we're not 1Ls anymore...
Crying 1L: This school has ruined my fucking life.
Working 1L: At least you won't have to be a lawyer forever.
Crying 1L: Huh?
Working 1L: I mean, we'll die someday. That'll feel good, right?
Ignorance is bliss...
2L: You need to relax. Look how calm I am.
2L #2: You're only calm because you weren't paying attention.
Sign me up for THAT kind of Advocacy!
Disgruntled 2L: ...YOU'RE easy!
2L: Well, that's not a secret!
Thursday, March 02, 2006
Feisty again today
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2L: "Doesn't all of this seem totally freaky and Orwellian, all Big Brother is watching you?"
Crim Pro Prof: "No shit!"
---
2L (the same as above): "I don't understand how a gamma ray machine or whatever could ever replace a pooch. I mean an officer can say it does, but it's still not a pooch."
Crim Pro Prof: "So the gamma ray machine doesn't lick your hand, so what?"
There Goes Your A
1L #1: Thank you.
Bald Prof: 1L #2, you’re not wearing a hat, so I can’t compliment you on it…I’ll have to ask you a few questions instead.
1L #2: I do have nice hair…you could compliment me on that.
Bald Prof: That is the most insensitive thing anyone has ever said to me!
Wednesday, March 01, 2006
On Trial Strategy...
The right to remain silent...
law students at lunch
1L: Yeah, I went up to the vending machine thinking I wanted chocolate, but then I saw Cheetos and thought "I must have partially hydrogenated soybean oil!"
perhaps these comments are related?
Guy #2: Dude, that's so funny. I wanna try that.
Guy #1: Yeah, well, he tried it with a law student. Don't try it with one of those girls. They'll, like, sue you or something.
Several minutes pass...
Guy #2: I'm still mad about our grades on that exam.
Guy #1: Me too! I can't believe we were dead last.
Bolstering the Witness???
Evidence Prof (aside): Teacher of the Year!
Show us your ...
2L#3 (female): If I had a dollar for every time I've seen [2L#2]'s boobs...
2L#1: Well technically I've never seen them; the lights were off...
2L#2: Now now, those were my shoulder blades. Try to tell the difference next time, ok?
What a future awaits!
Serious material defects
Writing Prof: "A $500 part on a $450K car? You're going to renig because of a $500 part? Suck it up and deal, Nicolas Cage!"
and later in the same class:
Writing Prof: Before you finish that contract, you must put in a clause that assures you that Nic Cage was not stoned when he agreed to buy the car.
BA Faux Pas
Overheard by Grace
Menagerie
Prof: "There was even evidence which suggested that the defendants had a sexual relationship with the dogs in question...and that they had an adoptive son...who may also have been involved in that particular menage. Or, if you like, menagerie."
Overheard by kommishoner
Overheard at Quinnipiac University School of Law
Property Professor: Ok so the English came over, and then what happened?
Class: Silent
Property Professor: Who has been to Williamsburg?
Property Professor: Ahhh yes Mr. 1L!
1L: Oh, I was just raising my hand to say that yes, I've been to Williamsburg.
Overheard by SR
History degrees ARE useless
ILP: What was important going on at this time?
Student: Oh, there was some war.
ILP: Some war?
Student: Yea, some war... Oooooh, World War II.
-- Overheard by lawbrat
We're Better than Jesus
"I don't know why our client hides things from us. We're like his priests, except we can actually fix things."
-- Overheard by FYKL
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
We'll All Get Through This Together
Crim Law Prof: Come on, just say something, so we can all make fun of you and move on.
Alito and...
Think first, speak later
While discussing the ethics of lying to the Unabomber in order to obtain apsychiatric analysis against his direction...
PR Prof: "I feel like I could write some futuristic novel where this is our hero, the Unabomber... I haven't exactly thought out the screenplay."
-- Overheard by livinginthelaw
The real reason for Spring Break
-- Overheard by Chutch (please welcome said author as the 1st of 3 new permanent posters!)
Monday, February 27, 2006
Some say ambulance chaser, I say crusader for the little guy
"I used to do a lot of housing cases because they were easy. You send in a tester and bam! You win a lot of money. Easy Money!"
Expert Toker?
I feel used
1L: "Prof. L– not too bad for a prof... actually kind of hot... but soooo married!"
1L, in a follow-up on the previous note during the next class: "Prof laski from Saved By The Bell The College yrs?"
Over...written by MO'M
Conservative Con Law Prof?
CCLP: "Liberals wake up in the morning and try to figure out how to make the world better... conservatives wake up and say 'thank god i wasnt stabbed overnight... everything's okay.'"
CCLP, Introducing class to his judicial philosophy: "I am more Borkian....than Bork."
CCLP: “The one thing you gain in law school that is useful to being a lawyer is a higher tolerance for personal embarassment…I mean, you have to be able to stand up in a courtroom and say ‘OJ is innocent.’”
CCLP: “Government is dangerous; that’s why we should have as little of it as possible.”
CCLP, Discussing McCulloch: “My tax is unconstitutional? Your whole goddamn bank is unconstitutional, and so is your mother!”
CCLP: “That’s as commercy as commerce gets!”
-- Overheard by CLK
Sunday, February 26, 2006
But I imagine Blackacre with a rich baritone.
Well, it concerns me
JOIN US.... JOIN US!!!
I will only let you be a permanent poster if:
- You promise to post twice a week.
- The posts must be remotely amusing.
- You keep a "you have to be there to understand" to a minimum.
- You have either sent me a quote already (link me to when it was posted) OR send me a new one.
- You introduce yourself to me in the e-mail. Name, year in school, school. I won't lie, I'm looking for 1Ls and 2Ls because 3Ls don't give a shit anymore. I don't blame them. In fact, I envy them. As with law school in general, I will choose you based on the school you go to. I am looking for some ivy leaguers to give this blog some cred. Just kidding, because I already have two. BOO-YAH. I'm looking for people from different schools than those represented already. For the number of you from Indiana who e-mail me, there's got to be one of you who wants permanent posting privileges.
Out of the badness of my heart, if you have permanent posting privileges already and have not posted in the past month, you may be dropped (with notice). If you don't want posting privileges anymore, let me know. I want more posts and I want them now.
Your admin,
LiserDoesLaw
The truth comes out
Overheard by HS
The best kind of friends
1L: well, they were “friends”
Civ Pro Prof: Friends with benefits! That’s a relatively new term for me. We didn’t have that when I was your age. I mean, we had it, we just didn’t call it that.
-- Overheard by WLE
Tell me about it
-- Overheard by Chutch
Pre-Roberts and Alito days
Overheard by the BLS
Property Grab Bag
1L: I'm gonna go with yes.
Property Prof.: Is there a shorter and more accurate answer?
Overheard by Chutch
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Overheard by Homie
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oh, the shame
Westlaw Student Rep #2: It's okay, I missed two, but I feel really bad about it.
Thursday, February 23, 2006
I am the king!
Weekend Plan
2L Girl: Mine is too, papers to write, men to fuck, etc.
2L: Well, at least you have your priorities.
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
tomayto/tomahto
student #2: She's more of a raging retard.
At least he admits it
"I get to claim certain rights as a law professor, but that doesn't mean I'm connected to reality."
I didn't mean it...
Civ Pro Prof: "Judge Posner is one of the most influential judges in the country. If you guys have blogs, please don't post that I insulted him.."
We're not that bad at numbers, lady
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
This about sums it up...
Business Student: The exam is on Sunday? What the fuck is wrong with you people?
Monday, February 20, 2006
Cheney's got a gun
with the Vice President.
-- overheard by BD
We don't need no steenkin Ethics rules
-- overheard by CR
I'll know it when I see it
-- overheard by CR
Leave the hypos to the profs next time
-- overheard by CD
Sunday, February 19, 2006
when the 7th Circuit gets out of hand
2L girl: I feel like Easterbrook gets too much exposure. He enjoys pontificating a bit too much.
2L guy: Correct. He's a punk on paper.
Friday, February 17, 2006
This is who we become...
2L #2: You can't try and help them. This is the class struggle.
Crim Law and Mercy Killing
Prof: Yeah, unless his Mom gets sick
As overheard by rangjl
Thursday, February 16, 2006
Procedure of the Civil variety
-- Overheard by WE
Civil Procedure Professor: "Don't kick a baby elephant, and don't abuse a clerk. Just don't."
-- Overheard by HLJ
Con Law Compilation
-- Overheard by Homie B.
Constitutional Law Professor: I realize that this isn't the clearest chart in the world. You can use it to study the concept... or you can use it for wrapping sardines.
-- Overheard by The BLS
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
finally, a law book worth reading
Feisty today
- “All of us ‘originalists’ seem to go back to the language of the Constitution when it suits our purposes.”
- “Can they look in the film canister on the desk during a protective sweep? No. Sometimes there’s just film in there anyway... As Freud says, sometimes a film canister is just a film canister."
- “If the crazy killer brother-in-law is in the attic, they’re gonna fuckin’ hear him coming before he gets there and have a reasonable reason to go search the house!
- “I get a letter with a return address of Osama bin Laden… I wonder if he has mailing labels?”
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
I'm not Bitter....I'm not!!!
It makes me feel good when I can say he's completely wrong.
This story brightened my day, too
-- Seen by Prof. TR
Freudian Slip
-- Overheard by JN
Flattery will get you everywhere
2L: OMG - if I get quoted on Overheard in Law School, I'll put it on my resume.
-- Overheard by LB
Interview etiquette
2L #2: Hmmm. Then maybe you should just fall down on purpose on the wayfrom the car to the door so you get it out of the way.
-- Overheard by LB
Stereotypes, shmereotypes
K Prof (discussing a Tennessee case): The 16 year old defendant did not repair the truck and let the engine blow up. Then he left it parked for months on his parent's front lawn... reinforcing every stereotype of Tennesee you've ever had.
-- Overheard by BD
I was just following orders
-- Overheard by CT
More property quotes? Of course!
Property professor passing out an evaluation form regarding classes for this week and realizing he doesn't have enough copies: "Like Ohio voting ballots, not enough for everyone. That was not a political statement."
-- Overheard by GR
1L: What does a purple mohawk and a leather jacket really say, anyway?Property prof: I wish I knew.
-- Overheard by K
Property Professor: Why do we have deeds?
1L: It's more convenient than throwing clumps of dirt at each other (referring to livery of seisen).
-- Overheard by Kitrah
Property Professor: None of us are asking for in-depth research to answer these problems. Only psycho professors at the top law schools ask for those things, and even then…
-- Overheard by JU