Thanks! Contracts (1st year of law school).
I refer to this as my midlife crisis = quit my job and went back to school (again- went back around 30 for my masters, and now this 10 years later).
Funny thing is, as stressful as this can be (and it IS, especially when compounded with the lack of sleep that this comparatively older student needs desperately), I'm happy and at peace being back in school. This stress is nothing compared to the circus I had been dealing with at previous jobs. Plus, I've been wanting to do this for about 25 years but never pulled the trigger. Maybe I was lazy. Maybe I was scared. Doesn't matter anymore. I'm here and (generally) enjoying it...
But I have a midterm on Monday. Yikes!
Edit: I should note that dealing with the stress for me is all about perspective.
I survived the midterm on Monday. Now to write an Office Memo. The exciting turn my life has taken (but a happy one).
Forgot to mention we did the barren cow case today. I sided with the dissent.
It just keeps getting worse the more I read...
Al Gore had not invented the Internet yet when I was a law student, but Wikipedia has a good article on the Rule Against Perpetuities. When I was in school we had to Shepardize with about a dozen books and pamphlets.
Love to help (feel free to PM me on law school stuff) but this is not part of most real practices.
The Rule is officially stupid.
Unless the state is a wait-and-see state, or changed 21 to 90 years, or dropped it altogether.
I like where our professor gave us quick note about a case where the CA Supreme Court said, yeah, the rule is stupid. Apparently that's the most recent case about the rule in CA. It was in the 60s. 'Nuff said.
The only 21 rule I am familiar with has to do with the cleaning of a golf ball in play. As far as I know it is applicable all over the world where golf is played. So what are we talking about here? Oh, yeah, I forgot. There is that rule that sets 21 as the age at which consumption of alcoholic beverages becomes legal. Lots of people violate that rule. Then there is Rule 21 for our local homeowners association that establishes the types of legal trash cans we may use. Lots of people violate that rule, too.
Maybe Rule 21 should be "The LTE should never drop to Page 2"...
And Pittsburgh fans will always associate 21 with Roberto Clemente...
I'm used to Robert Brickey as 21 setting the rules. At least vertically.