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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What, like it's hard?

Seriously, if she wants to study law, more power to her, but the CA bar is a beast.

I assume she wants to do Innocence Project-related work, and if I give her the benefit of the doubt, she's planning to work pro bono.  So, good for her.

I will say that [b]learning black-letter law ("the concepts") is a very minimal part of actually learning to practice law. [/b] Black-letter law is pretty easy.  Effective legal research and argument is a completely different matter.  [/quote]

And as a practicing lawyer, I always felt that this trope that the black letter law is minimal was pretty ridiculous.  Knowing the content and the rules is actually a huge part of practicing most types of law.  Most lawyers aren't concocting brilliant briefs that are platonically perfect.  Things like strategy, passion, politics, teamwork, influence -- those are more important for making systematic change, which is was Kim is apparently interested in.  If she can learn the black-letter law of criminal law in order to understand the injustice of the system, that will be enough.  [/quote]

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