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It’s that time of year again. Anxious 1Ls await the beginning of what will be the longest three years of their lives. Meanwhile, attorneys, law profs, and other legal professionals are eagerly sharing advice on how to survive. The weekend before the start of law school is overwhelming. With so much information, words of wisdom,…
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Dear COVID-19 1Ls, By now the grades have probably started rolling in. I don’t envy you in the slightest. At least when my first semester grades came in, I had people around me to commiserate with. More importantly, I had my fellow 2Ls and 3Ls there to pick me back up and tell me everything…
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The short answer: you can’t. If you’re anything like me, you’re likely not satisfied with that answer. I certainly wasn’t. I get it. I’m a naturally anxious person – so every day I wasn’t doing something productive during my 0L summer, I was fretting. Sound familiar? I have some good news. There’s actually a…
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My colleagues and I compiled some of these notes last year as we were interviewing for 1L Summer internships with various in-house companies. None of these notes are specific to any one company. Best of luck, be yourself, you’ll be great! 1-24-2019 Prep Notes from Mentors Write down the top 5 things you want to…
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There are two things I’ve always really admired about Santa Clara Law that I think makes us stand out among other law schools. 1. Our collaborative environment (which is normally strange for law school) and 2. How willing upper-year and alumni students are to give back and help us rising professionals succeed. In an effort…
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This is my answer to the practice midterm. As always, my contracts session is Wednesdays 5pm Charney 338. Hypo Whether Mel can recover from Wicked’s breach will turn on the trier of fact’s determination as to whether the contract here is enforceable. Though we have a sale of property, because the contract was verbally discussed,…
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Guest Post By Santa Clara University School of Law 1.5L, Sarina Jwo NIM Plastics Corp. v. Standex International Corp. In the land of Contracts, there are two main building blocks of law: common law and the Uniform Commercial Code. They’re DIFFERENT. Which do you apply? At a glance, it’s simple: if it’s a sale of…
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Everything except the personal jurisdiction chart has been verified by our Professor. DIVERSITY FLOW CHARTPERSONAL JX FLOWCHARTREMOVAL JX FLOWCHART
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Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson Task: Compare and contrast the eight cases for Unjust Enrichment. Note, this is not the assignment I turned in as I had to shorten that one to two pages. This is the full version: Bloomgarden V. Coyer Utility Bloomgarden serves as an introduction to unjust enrichment (U.E) and the…
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