So yeah, I agree - of course it's important to be able to do legal issue-spotting quickly, esp when billing a client. But the best way to get really good at it is to do it over and over and over.

My psych testing showed a significant cognitive processing speed delay. No impact on the day-to-day of my job; a lot of impact on certain types of timed tests. The extra time just gave my brain a chance to catch up. (I call it an out-of-RAM error, not slow processor, impact is the same either way.)

This was law school, but same principle. Not a good reflection of what practice looks like.

Undergrad was mostly fine, but I majored in languages and music - very different final exam experiences.

That was the argument from the guy who got me informal accom. while the formal were pending - if it was that I didn't get it, time and a half wouldn't have made a difference. He was right; my grades did a 180 because I did get it but needed to get through all 1000 browser tabs in my brain first.

I don't think they're talking about cash benefits so much as workplace/school accommodations, which are a different beast. Still can require a lot of documentation but not what you're looking at.

It was in a Kohls ad on TV - that's the only place I've seen/heard.

I'm always a fan of certain implements of the French Revolution and appreciate fellow fans!

*her

If it's the WI Supreme Court you can default to female pronouns and be right 6 times out of 7

This was the second time for them; the first was a couple of years ago when I moved across the street and rather than transfer service on my existing account to a new address, they created a new account and then sent me to collections on the old one. It got fixed but for Pete's sake.

And even law will be priced out in a couple of years. It'd squeak in around $192-195k right now.

Don't think the WI legislature is going to magically give more money to the UW system to bring tuition down.

I worked for an employer that did this too for the exact same reason. Too many accidental calls.

I don't think it's unique to lawyers. If you were handpicked by this president to do something, would you admit you'd fucked it up out of ignorance? A lot of the DOGE kids did the same thing rather than admit they don't know what they're doing.

I do think that a lot of the attorneys trying to represent this administration have a somewhat dubious relationship with fact. But I also think a good chunk of that is incompetence too. When you don't know what you're doing, "make shit up" starts to seem like a sound strategy.

I think that's probably much more common than you might think when an inexperienced lawyer is embarrassed and trying to cover their ass and doesn't have the experience to do that well either. Or frankly anyone, lawyer or not, who has made a mistake and is afraid to admit to it.

"I asked a lawyer and they said I was wrong so I'm asking you" and its variant "I don't like lawyers," apparently not realizing that the word "attorney" in front of my name on my website isn't just for show.

Makes me want to respond with "sir this is a Wendy's"

Before law school, I worked for a tech company writing sales proposals for awhile; those deadlines were real and that was a masterclass in balancing workload. But since then? Meh. When I was in the hospital in 2018, I freaked out about a brief deadline. Ct gave an extension. It was fine.

😅 it made more sense before character limits kicked in.

And like. I know I'm preaching to the choir, but the practice of law is not a timed exam on which your entire semester grade rests and which is curved against the rest of your class. It's just not.

It was a game-changer for me.

The admin I was working with in law school said if it was just that I didn't get the material, extra time wouldn't have changed the outcome. It did. Night and day.