Wish Me Luck!

I was contacted earlier this week by BYU Law School, and they said they would like for me to meet with the Dean of Admissions. I asked my old boss if she had any idea what it was about, or if she could give me heads up on what the interview was for; she said she couldn’t go into details, but that the interview is “good news.” Wish me luck!

Good News

I have received my first letter back from a law school that I applied to. And it was good news! The University of the Pacific accepted me into their program, and they have even offered to fly me out to take a tour of the campus. UoP is one of my top choices for where to go for law school, so now I can at least rest assured that I can go to law school at a place I like.

They also mentioned a scholarship for half tuition, and they’ll pay for my books the first year. I’m glad that my first response from a law school was a positive one!

"So I Was Wondering…"

We get a lot of calls here at the law school. Calls from people who feel they deserve free legal service because they are a BYU Student/BYU Alumni/Mormon/They were Mormon/They knew this Mormon guy once and he was “chill.” Whatever the reason, people don’t seem realize that the law school is only a law school, and not a law firm. We don’t take on cases. BYU does have a legal department, and it is not associated with the law school. It isn’t even in the same building.

Today, I wondered if people call the other colleges at BYU asking for help. Do they call up the school of nursing? I can see it now. Some guy calls up the office for the nursing program and asks “Hey, well, I have appendicitis, and I was wondering if you guys have any free medical services? Can I have one of your students do a surgery, could they just take my appendix out for practice? Because then it would be free.”

Just like a doctor or a nurse practicing medicine before their training is complete, it is equally ridiculous to expect a law student to take on legal cases. They don’t know enough. They aren’t even real lawyers until they pass the Bar exam. In fact, they would get in trouble. Big trouble. I’m pretty sure they would never be allowed to become a real lawyer.