August 19, 2015
Hastings and Hastings
The LSAT (Law School Admission Test) is the most important component of the law school admission process. It is divided into three parts: analytical reasoning, logical reasoning, and reading comprehension. The test is required by all law schools and is essentially a giant bell curve. At the end of the day, the students with...
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August 18, 2015
Hastings and Hastings
Everyone thinks they can write, everyone thinks they can act, and everyone thinks they can drive. Yes, most people can produce something like good writing, good acting, or good driving, but few people are actually good writers, actors, or drivers. Actually, it’s safe to speculate that about 1 out of 100 drivers are actually...
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August 17, 2015
Hastings and Hastings
The legal field is riddled with Latin. Exempli gratis, habeus corpes (for example, give us the body). One might ignorantly presume that this is an intentional effort to keep lay people away from the profession so that lawyers can keep their profession sustainable and lucrative. But Latin should not be feared. It has far...
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August 16, 2015
Hastings and Hastings
When one thinks of law students, the image of a pale student wearing horned rimmed glasses and suspenders holstered over their frail shoulders comes to mind. But, apparently a handful of students boast the virtue of beauty as well as brains. Most recently, a one Candice Bennatt who holds the title for Miss Louisiana...
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August 15, 2015
Hastings and Hastings
Although the legal system remains a highly efficient, highly logical set of guidelines and principles that produce justice, there are a few laws that simply make no sense. Regardless, a reasonable thinker hopes to find a cause for every effect, and along that line of reasoning, a law that prohibits humans from dressing donkeys...
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