Better Late Than Never

Last summer I did an internship at the DA's office. I spent my entire time there working on a gang injunction. I drafted all the documents needed for the entire process for the Dog Pound gang, and drafted another set of generic documents, for any injunctions they wanted to do in the future.

Shortly before I left, they halted the Dog Pound injunction. It was not explained to me why. I was disappointed that I never heard about it being filed, but there is nothing a lowly law clerk can do about such things since this is the kind of issue that is driven by policy. At that time, several gang injunctions were coming under fire in other areas of the state, so I wondered if that was the reason for the stop.

This morning, however, I was very pleased to read that this injunction has been filed. The permanent one was signed by the judge yesterday. Of course, I have no way of knowing if they actually used the documents I drafted for it, but it is still pretty cool. : )

Huh?

Sometimes I read stuff and I'll come across something that stops me, and all I can think is "Huh???" Happened this morning as I read this article in the local paper about an ordinance to stop solicitors on city street medians. Personally, I think if people would just stop giving to the panhandlers, they would disappear and go elsewhere. I'd rather have our police concentrating their efforts on violent criminals than rounding up the cardboard squad.

Anyway, the article contained comments from different people, including the owner of a funeral home. She was for the ordinance because she claimed that "panhandling by the homeless is hurting her business." Huh? Ok, I can see that if you have a store or restaurant extremely close to an intersection where homeless people are begging, some customers may be turned off or frightened. (But even that seems like a stretch, as most parking lots and store fronts are quite a ways off from the medians.) However, I have yet to see anyone driving around with a corpse in their vehicle, looking around to decide what funeral home to use!

Random Bar Review Phrases and Images

In honor of my last bar review class being tomorrow, I give you the BarBri random phrase and image list:

• Munching Sheep
• "It's my prerogative"
  
• "Everybody passes"
• "PLAIN VIEW"
• "Fabulous!"
  
• Sharon Stone buying Epstein's $400 Cadillac
• "Make 'em liable!"
• Rapping aardvarks
• No-note-Chemerinsky
• Conviser wearing leathers
• "Good idea???"

Bonus points to anyone who emails me and tells me which lecturer and subject each of those came from! :)

Bring It On

I'm not sure if it is because I'm just tired of this process, or I actually feel like I can pass, but the title of this post was finally my attitude today towards the bar exam.

I mean, I excelled in law school, under very trying circumstances, and I have been studying like crazy the last 6 weeks. What more can I do? Yeah, yeah, keep studying for another 2.5 weeks, but really? I'm just wanting them to throw it all at me so I can give it my best shot. Will that be enough? Who knows, but I just want to do it!

5 More Days

That is all that is left of bar review classes. In some ways I feel less ready now than I did 6 weeks ago because now I'm aware of exactly how much I don't know. It's depressing, tiring and I just want it all to be over.

The only topics we have left to cover are Wills & Trusts (ugh, 120 pages and 8 hours- I'm already dreading being bored out of my mind!) and Community Property (hoping that isn't so bad).

At this point, I'm not feeling like I have much motivation or energy to tackle this. And of course, that makes me more depressed.

Three and a half weeks and I can forget about this for a while.