Evan Schaeffer's Legal Underground

AT MY TRIAL PRACTICE WEBSITE . . . "'Please Tell the Jury': A Formula Guaranteed to Make You Sound Pompous."

APHORISM OF THE DAY . . . An attorney is a lawyer who is trying to sound more important that he really is.

READING ASSIGNMENT: THE LAWYER'S BRIEFCASE . . . It's something every law-related weblog needs--some long essays. Here's one that appeared not so long ago on The Legal Underground: "The Collected Four-Part Examination of the Lawyer's Briefcase, One of an Ongoing Series of Essays on 'Things Important to Every Lawyer.'"

AT MY TRIAL PRACTICE WEBSITE . . . "Taking Control of Direct Examination."

THE WEEKLY LAW SCHOOL ROUNDUP . . . The Weekly Law School Roundup alternates between The Legal Underground and Thanks, But No Thanks, where you can find this week's Weekly Law School Roundup #131. The next installment will appear here soon, so be sure to check back.

AT MY TRIAL PRACTICE WEBSITE: "Cross-Examining the Liar at Trial: Two Absolute Prerequisites."

AT MY TRIAL PRACTICE WEBSITE . . . "Law Review Articles on the Web."

The Weekly Law School Roundup #130

Here's your weekly list of good posts from the past week by law students, some current or almost current, some recently-graduated--

Organize A new version of Evernote. [But for the Sky]

Useful The benefits of aloe vera. [The Legal Optimist]

MBAs Just like us. [The Shark]

Boredom An overlooked benefit of deadlines. [The War of All Against All]

Let Me In Neighbors and intercoms. [Thanks, But No Thanks]

Bashful The pros and cons of mock trials. [Butterflyfish]

Television Thoughts about the Emmys. [wicked words]

The Bar Exam Do what works for you. [think like a woman. act like a man.]

Perspective The imporance of sleep. [My So-Called Internet-based Life]

Cram Down to the wire with the bar exam. [divine angst]

Look for next week's roundup at Thanks, But No Thanks then it's back here the week after that. You can find some other recent roundups in the "At the Law Schools 2" category, as well as sixty or so older roundups from 2004-2005 here. Finally, if you want to know how I choose posts to highlight, see "How I Write the Weekly Law School Roundup." (If you have a law-student weblog that I don't seem to know about or that isn't in my blogroll, please send me an email.)

AT MY TRIAL PRACTICE WEBLOG . . . ¨Depositions: When the Witness Answers a Question You Didn´t Ask.¨

THE WEEKLY LAW SCHOOL ROUNDUP . . . The Weekly Law School Roundup alternates between The Legal Underground and Thanks, But No Thanks, where you can find this week's Weekly Law School Roundup #129. The next installment will appear here soon, so be sure to check back.