I did very well in law school, but not quite well enough. Except for a "C+" in Civil Procedure, I would have made law review, although I did get on the Maritime Law Review. I still think my Civil Procedure professor deliberately skunked me somehow, because of an incident in class. A very bright student used the term "bogus" and the professor tried to humiliate him, saying he'd give him a quarter if he could find it in Black's Law Dictionary. I said I'd cover the bet, and threw the guy a quarter across the room, and he caught it (must have played baseball). The next class period, I brought Black's, which of course has bogus in it, as a bogus check, but the guy didn't want to make a big deal of it, but like the jerk you know me to be, I wrote the definition on the board so everyone could see it when the professor came in. He gave me such a venomous look. Our grades were supposed to be anonymous, so maybe it was just a coincidence that I made two A's, a B+, and that C+. The other guy did make law review, and got a job with the biggest law firm in New York, and has probably made millions.
On the other hand, I've spent a lot of time with my kids.
I loved law school, but I also had Ben between second and third year, and was pregnant with Nick during my LL.M., so I was very tired. J.D. cum laude, LL.M. with distinction, and none of my clients ever seem to notice, and no one cares - but me. |
