David’s Ramblings

Some photos from the California Babybar…

William and Gloria in front of the hotel after a long grueling day!

David and Gloria in front of the hotel, William traded places and he’s the photographer…

Interesting Art Deco building across the street from the hotel…

Well day after tomorrow is it! Taking the FYLSE … it will be 8 weeks for the results…

I’m in California doing a baby bar prep course… it’s four days of intensive learning and practice. I’d highly recommend it the instruction is priceless… I’m attending Fleming’s Fundamentals of Law

Well now I’m digging into 2L law. Courses this year are Criminal Procedure, Agency, Real Estate and Remedies. Hoping I can maintain or improve my 3.0 GPA. Just signed up for the California Baby Bar Review course in May with Flemings… and I’ll tackle the BB in June.
Lots of work to do… but one […]

Received my grades for first year law finals today. Was almost afraid to open the envelope…
Criminal Law - A+
Torts - B-
Contracts - B+
Wow - I’m happy! …and ready for 2nd year… Remedies, Property, Agency and Criminal Procedure.

Well did my final exams the day before Thanksgiving… whew, three hours of essay and application of torts, criminal and contract law… my brain hurts but I’m glad I’m done. The coming weeks will see if it passed…

Next week I’m taking finals for first year law. I cannot believe how fast the time has gone. My head is filled with rules, decisions, maxims, mnemonics to remember rules… whew. Well wish me luck!
David

For law school I have to read a lot! One trick I use to keep up is to scatter my required reading around the house on in some comfortable locations. I have a number of pre-prepared studying spots…
The reading chair in the living room. Good light for night reading, comfortable chair and my conga to […]

So learning to write case briefs… one such sample…
United States v. Jewell
Unites States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, 1976
Topic: Intent; knowingly, willful blindness
Case: United States v. Jewell. 532 F.2d 697. (1976)
Facts: Jewell was in a Tijuana bar was approached by a person who identified himself as Ray offering to pay $100 to drive a […]

Law school means lots of studying, reading, more reading and listening to lectures. One very handy item is my ipod. On it I have loaded my favorite lectures, actually all of them when the baby bar rolls around they will be very favorite… for now some are more favorite to listen to than others. I […]

Having so many differing interests is nice, but sometimes the juggling is difficult. Like today, Sunday… I took a little time after breakfast to glue up the tiles I cut on Saturday for the kitchen listello, but right after that I went to study and work on homework questions for contracts and torts class. I […]

In October I’ll have to take the dreaded California First Year Law Students Exam aka the Baby Bar. I ordered a prep course to add to my first year study to make sure that I’m ready. It arrived Friday - overwhelming 32 audio CD’s and 4 huge manuals, many many sample essays to do. Very […]

I started law school online, graduation is tentatively set for 2010. Not too bad considering it took me 12 years to earn my undergraduate degree while working full time ;-).
I’m attending Northwestern California School of Law. The work will be hard but I’ll keep at it; IRACing, outlining, flashcarding, reading, briefing and working my way […]