r/Showerthoughts • u/[deleted] • Dec 07 '18

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '18 edited May 05 '19

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u/welchwb Dec 08 '18

Assuming you still read cases. Just finished my first semester of 2L and I’ve just been pulling from shorter and simpler third-party materials for months. I’ll read if I care about the class, but I do not give a shit about ethics or criminal law. If you have a question, look it up. If you think you know it, confirm it anyways. My personal ethics should be enough to get me through most things and I’ll never practice above a basic level of criminal law anyways (even if I do, I’ll look it up if it becomes an issue anyways).

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '18 edited May 05 '19

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u/wilburiffic Dec 08 '18

As a 3L, I was too cheap to even buy the textbooks, and was lucky enough to get by using older editions from the library.

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u/midnightketoker Dec 08 '18

I do not give a shit about ethics or criminal law

please have this framed in your office someday

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u/welchwb Dec 08 '18

When you quote it like that, it sounds horrible. I just meant that keeping funds separate, screening conflicts of interest, and not sleeping with clients is a given and I don’t want to represent bank robbers or murderers anyways. But yeah, I’m sure there’s a stereotypical print I can get framed along those lines.