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Fight The Hypo
http://www.fightthehypo.com
Mostly about the experience of law school, but readers will also find posts on the development of their legal careers, the opportunities and pitfalls of the law, current events, politics and media. "Casebook Sherpa" is the principal author, though he is joined by "Dr. Bombay" and other evening school classmates from the Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law.
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Criminally Minded.
Last night, I found myself watching a documentary about Heidi Fleiss, and her attempts to open a male brothel in Nevada. Like most HBO documentaries, I found myself unable to turn away. Partly, it was to stare, wide-eyed, at the plastic surgery Fleis...
4th Amendment? Never Heard of It.
Being a life long resident of Washington, D.C., I’m used to seeing Members of Congress engage in all types of election year high jinks. You’ve got to go and sell it to the good people back in Omaha or Sacramento that you’ve getting it done for ...
Here’s a Tip - Skip Summer School.
I have always enjoyed summer school. I took summer classes in both undergrad and in my masters program. Summer was always more laid back. The classes are more compacted because of the shorter time frame, and that meant no filler and just good informa...
The Myth of the Evening Student.
One of the reasons that I was interested in Catholic is that it had the highest average age of an evening cohort in D.C. Hearing of the brutality of the law school grading curve, I convinced myself that this was a good thing, since it meant that I wo...
4th of July Caption Contest.
’Ritche” by Bill Owens from his photo essay “Suburbia.” (1973) While the Sherpa is knocking back cabernet in Napa, and I’m golfing my brains out, we thought we would let all of you get your creative juices flowing. Let...

