22 April 2009
Green Grads Grab #4
Stuff has happened, let’s recap.
You might remember this case from late last year, when we referred to it in our Tuesday Transcript section. Well the case is now over and Ice TV has emerged victorious (Note, I’m taking the high road and not making any ‘icy’ or ‘frost’ type puns).
If you’d like to look at this case further you can take a look at IceTV’s statement and summaries at Crikey and LawyersWeekly.
This is an interesting article about an American student-group named Building a Better Legal Profession. In a way it is similar to what Green Grads is all about, except it looks as though the students there might be getting a bit carried away with their good intentions.
The article suggests that some students are actually turning down job offers because their potential employers aren’t progressive enough (specifically, are not doing enough pro bono work) for them? We think it’s great to be idealistic and it’s important to want to innovate and change the way things are for the better — but it’s very hard to do that when you’re unemployed. Take the job!
A friend of mine told me about this research a few months ago but I’m only just now stumbling onto it myself. It is pretty interesting. Enrolling into law school is, for a lot of us, very much a decision about delaying short term goodstuff for what we think will be a greater amount of goodstuff in the future.
How many law school students would end up eating the marshmellows?
Man survives a plane crash into the New York Hudson River. His employer, who had planned to fire him the very next day, decide to give him a reprieve and allow him to keep his job. Man then loses job anyways two months later. Man then uses plane crash publicity to voice his anger.
You know personally, I think the buzz of ‘holy shit I just survived a plane crash into the Hudson River’ would probably see me through the rest of the year. Sure losing a job sucks, but, come on – your plane fell out of the sky!
Not all of us spend a lot of time in the law library, some of us prefer to get our work done at home. If you’re one of those people then make an effort to jazz up your home office. These simple little ‘hacks’ can end up making a big difference and it’s pretty obvious that if your study area is a nice place to work, you’re going to get more done.
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