Law in Contemporary Society

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FearAndAnxiety 28 - 09 Feb 2010 - Main.GloverWright
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 When Eben talks about the fear and anxiety created by law school, grades, and dwindling firm jobs, does this resonate with you? How about fear that you won't find something that you are passionate about, that fulfills you, and that allows you to support yourself and your family?

I wished that Eben had spoken more to that fear and anxiety today in class, and more specifically, what to do about it.

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 Lastly, from my experience Gtown has the same anxiety level as CLS, if not worse. Is there anyone else who thinks the anxiety probably did not start in law school, but is deeply rooted somewhere else? I've never been anxious about grades and haven't started to be here. It seems like 'grade panic' cannot have just started in law school. I look around me and see a total lack of self-confidence in many of my peers which baffles me. We have made it this far, why don't we believe in ourselves that no matter what happens here we can and will succeed? I've tried to impart this on people, often to no avail. How can we give up so easily? A couple 'bad' grades and it's all over? We can't really believe that, can we?

-- RorySkaggs - 08 Feb 2010

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I'll submit that the anxiety level is probably the same -- and also to Severo's point, made in person, that many (most?) of those people who on the first day said they wanted a public interest job will more likely than not end up working at a firm upon graduation. But I do maintain that there is something particularly coercive -- and sometimes noxious -- about certain elements of New York's legal culture. And I wonder still how much our exposure to that culture early on bears on what we end up doing with our law degrees.

-- GloverWright - 09 Feb 2010

 
 
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