I meant to announce this yesterday, but I was too busy being social or at least pretending to be.
The fellows formally from En Banc have a new weblog, De Novo, and it’s fabulous. The symposium, which is the new addition to blog, is an excellant idea, and I might even submit to it if the topic seems right.
This weeks first symposium in particular has had me thinking about how well I’m prepared for "the outside." Coming from a law school that was so dedicated to bar classes and less on clinics and hands on experience other than the summer clerkships (because quite frankly employment during the semester was discouraged), the minute I get my license I won’t know what to do with it. I do have clerkship experience and I’m happy that I took trial advocacy, and I was an avid competitor in mock trial, but it isn’t real world.
Granted, I’m not paranoid about it because I learned quite a bit as a clerk, and after all these months of being unemployed studying for the exam I’m just dying to jump in and get my hands dirty in some kind of civil work, but I don’t want to be blindsighted by it.
That and I did not go to the best school, but that’s not a secret.