Comments on: What Do I Do with a Rescinded Offer?

By: P. Dreck

P. Dreck — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:55:10 +0000

I guess you guys are right. The Legal Tease is done posting. I’d like to see the guy who is responsible for that.

By: Alpha Dude

Alpha Dude — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:03:23 +0000

This guy Jocque Stappe probably got his share of pussy, since he’s been practicing law for about 20 years.

By: Jacque Stroppe

Jacque Stroppe — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:03:05 +0000

Cut the excuse. When I was a 2L I had so many callbacks, I was flying 2-3 times a week from the Midwest to both coasts for two-and-a-half months and I finished 2L in the top 10% and graduated at the top 8% level. I still have the calendar from that time (1990) as a memento of that crazy time. I also worked 20 hours a week every semester of law school – including when I was on the interview circuit. Don’t blame your callbacks for your grades. I was not even close to being considered a gunner by any standard. Law school is not that hard, sport. My science Ph.D. was a hell of a lot harder than law school. Hell, my undergraduate work was harder than law school. If you received a “C” then you probably don’t have the native intelligence to make it in a BigLaw environment. I skipped so many classes for work and interview reasons it was ridiculous. If you just read through the casebooks the week before finals and use a highlighter and sticky tabs, you should be able to ace virtually any class in law school.

By: Scared2L

Scared2L — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:11:37 +0000

To the commentator about coasting.

I’m the person who sent in the question. I received an A, a B, and a C. A wide spread. I did not coast. I missed 4 weeks straight of classes due to all the OCI interviews and the callbacks.

15 callbacks at about 4 a week = 4 missed weeks of class I spent flying around (I know it sounds glamorous, but people who have done the whole process know it’s tiring and loses its charm fast). 25 OCI interviews = a lot of missed classes, but they were a lot more sporadic.

At that point, it was hard to keep up with the coursework of a 4 unit Bar class when I missed a third of the lectures. I did not coast, as my other grades have indicated. I just wasn’t able to catch up.

So while I won’t say you’re a douche for making that comment, I will say that it was an incorrect assumption.

By: Al Veoli

Al Veoli — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:44:22 +0000

I had a friend who had a job, then lost it, in the Clinton Administration. If it weren’t for the fact that Clinton needed a cigar warmer, she might have been on unemployment all along.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:43:12 +0000

I had a friend who had a job, then lost it way back when Clinton was president. Lucky thing Clinton needed somewhere to hold his cigars.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:18:28 +0000

Sorry to be a douche, but how the eff do your grades drop that much because of call backs? It seems to me like you got the BigLaw clerkship and decided to coast. Obviously, not a good game plan.
Anyhoo, stay in the top quarter and count your blessings. You could have kept your BigLaw clerkship, had a great summer, gotten good reviews and then not gotten a permanent offer because of the crappy economy. That happened to a “friend” of mine back when the economy took a dump in 2001-02.

By: Bill Dugan

Bill Dugan — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:45:52 +0000

Yes, do keep your head up, unless, of course, youre expressly directed to do otherwise, by your employed significant other. These days, we must be prepared to do things we might not otherwise want, in order to keep the piece.

By: Scared2L

Scared2L — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:40:14 +0000

Thanks for the advice. It’s greatly appreciated!

By: C Groh

C Groh — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:19:55 +0000

Yes, this situation clearly bites the big one, both for this person as well as everyone else in the food chain. I recommend you do your best to get any job–repeat, ANY job, as close to what you want to do as possible.

Hopefully things will improve for you and everyone else, but you can’t count on it.

The asswipes on this website don’t know how good they have it. I recommend they thank GAWD they have jobs, in law.