Buzzwords in Alaska

Hear ye! Hear ye! The latest edition of Ambivalent Voices features a conversation with Monica of buzzwords in which we talk about the lawyerly art of waiting, the awesome possibilities of student practice permits, the amazing beauty of Alaska, the cost of living in Alaska, and the Northeastern cooperative education plan that allows Monica to be in Alaska while most law students are still sitting in classrooms. Click below to listen, or right-click to download the mp3.

For more about Monica's great Alaska experience, be sure to read Alaska Update and Men In Jail. It sounds like Monica is having an incredible time in Alaska, and it just keeps getting better—as we speak, she's probably in trial! While you might not be lucky enough to be working in Alaska at the moment, if you would like to be part of a future episode of Ambivalent Voices, please drop me a line. (Use the email link in the top right of this page.) As I learned yesterday, you get more bees with honey, and what could be sweeter than an ambivalent podcast? Technotes: This podcast was recorded by phone via Slapcast.com. I added bumpers via Garageband (using loops that come w/the program) and compressed the mp3 in iTunes. To subscribe to Ambivalent Voices in a podcast aggregator, add this link to your aggregator's subscription list. You can access these recordings via the Ambivalent Voices Slapcast page, or find the local posts about each recording conveniently collected in the voices category here on ai.

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And There Is So Much Goodness

• Guess who is going to be a DC Law Student In Court next year! The interview was great, the job is likely to be even better. Yeah, the imbroglio is very happy today. ;-)
• Blawg Wisdom today features a request for wisdom on 2L scheduling. Please head on over and throw your two cents into the comments to help out a fellow law student!
• Blonde Justice recently asked for stories about bad prosecutors and sparked a lively debate, which Woman of the Law joined with gusto here and here. Awesome stuff. And also, congratulations to Woman of the Law on her job offer!
• Alaskablawg has an excellent post for law students and young lawyers explaining why lawyers might consider a career in criminal defense. I've been saving this because I wanted to write a more lengthy post about it, but since I have no idea when I'll have time for that, I'll just let it speak for itself.
• Properwinston says the peeps behind Law School Can Be Different (LSCBD) are “just mildly confused and highly ignorant about jurisprudential matters.” He shows he knows everything about everything in his more detailed critique of the LSCBD problem statement. My initial thought after reading around Properwinston a bit is that one problem with the concept of false consciousness is that it encourages people to think they have true consciousness. Another is that pompous condescension does little to advance thinking or debate on any issue. And also, I think there are some points worth more attention buried in all that self-righteousness.
• On the subject of LSCBD, Legal Sanity offers some helpful links and thoughts.
• Objective Justice is a new group blawg “dedicated to the objective pursuit of justice in law, politics, economics, and culture.” I have no idea what that means, but it may have something to do w/the quote from Ayn Rand at the bottom of the page. The site also claims it wants “to create a resource for law students and the public to analyze issues that are socially devisive” and that it “is friendly to those of any ideology,” so you may want to check it out.
• Heidi has a good post and lively discussion of the Schaivo situation, including a link to this great timeline of important developments in the case.
• Um, John Edwards is podcasting. Does this mean I can't do it anymore?

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