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On shit that happens

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I meant to do this post a while ago. Better late than never. 

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In your law school and lawyering career, shit’s going to happen. The list is endless:

- Bad grades
- Really, really bad grades
- Not making law review/journals
- Losing competitions
- Striking out at job fairs
- Not getting offers 
- Offers getting rescinded
- Failing the bar 
- Failing the bar multiple times
- Getting fired
- Getting your license suspended/revoked

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And that’s not including all the personal shit that happens - illnesses, accidents, deaths, breakups, marriages, divorces, etc. I have experienced and/or witnessed/heard of all of these things happening, and more. 

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We tend to be so type-A and success-driven that encountering these things can rattle us up pretty badly, especially when something shitty happens through no fault of our own. You give it your best shot and you come out short. You do everything “right” and then get left in the dust. We are so used to trying hard (or not) and getting good results. When shit happens, we look to what we did wrong. 

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And that can eat at us. Shit happens and it’s confusing and upsetting, not to mention embarrassing. Small law school communities do not help. Social media does not help. The fact that everyone else seems to have his/her shit together does not help. 

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What I urge you to remember is that whatever law school/legal profession-created goal you failed to achieve, it won’t kill you. Don’t let being a law student or a lawyer take over who you are as a person - you were a person before law school, before you cared or even knew about any of this. Keep trudging along and make time to be your own person who is more than someone of this legal world. 

Shit happens. You’ll survive. It might even make you stronger.

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Wanted to reblog during this time of shitstorm! It’s been a rough year globally, and I also dealt with some shit personally. It’s a reminder to myself too. Everyone hang in there!

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RBG Gear for Charity!

Hi everyone! 

As you know, I have previously designed some RBG-inspired items in honor of my icon (literally and figuratively): the WWRBGD line and the Ruth Gator Binsburg line. 

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I was thinking about anything I can do - and, to be cool, uniquely do - in her honor. Here I have made a copy of the popular WWRBGD products but set it up so that 100% OF ALL PROCEEDS go directly to the Malala Fund.

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I felt it was a charity RBG would have liked: educating girls all over the world! Not only do you get to own cool RBG gear, you will know that all of the proceeds went straight to supporting the Malala Fund. :)

Here’s the store if you want to browse for other things, of course. Thanks everyone. Fight on! 

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How many of these 15 very specific law struggles have you experienced

[ ] spending way too long looking for the fucking section symbol on Word

[ ] struggling with saying “certiorari”

[ ] struggling with saying “demurrer”

[ ] momentarily forgetting “Your Honor” and thinking, “Your Majesty…?”

[ ] having to politely sit through someone try to trick you into giving them legal advice

[ ] misspelling judgment (“judgement”)

[ ] having a discourse about one or two spaces after the period

[ ] getting plaintiff and defendant flipped

[ ] not knowing what a case you’ve been reading is actually about because the opinion is focused on some procedural issue

[ ] copying the auto-formulated citation, not liking it, and “fixing” it

[ ] not knowing how to address judges in a social setting so just avoiding addressing them at all

[ ] getting googled info from some other law firm’s website and feeling like a thief and a fraud

[ ] re-reading your emails from the Sent folder and noticing mistakes and struggling with whether to send a correction

[ ] writing “statute” when you actually meant statue

[ ] wrongly “correcting” someone who says “statue” when they did mean statue

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