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Teaching Law Students to Be Lawyers Professor Lutz Discusses Life, Law School and the Pursuit of Success
By Karen Lockman and RG: What have you been doing since Sarah Getchell then?
arl E. Lutz was formerly a senior KL: A number ofthings. When I first left partner with Kirkland & Ellis the firm, I looked at some general counsel l. in Chicago, but now focuses on positions at very large corporations, but t!· ultimately decided that was too much tea g and other outside interests. While at Kirkland, he practiced corporate law, like the job I was doing before. I looked specializing in private equity, venture capital, into various business enterprises- golf leveraged buyouts, mergers and acquisitions, course companies, minor league sports debt and equity financings, and board teams - but basically decided those were representations. He also served on Kirkland's not terrific businesses to be in. Then, senior management committee for a number of finally, in 1999 Dean Lehman asked me years He has lectured on numerous occasions to come in and teach a class here. at graduate law and business schools, and has served as general counsel of a public RG: How did you and Lehman company. At the Law School, he has taught connect? courses in business transactions, private with my clients in transactions that I did equi�l and entrepreneurial transactions, as a practicing lawyer-- they turned out KL: He got to know me originally law firmsand legal careers, and professional pretty well. through fundraising, and asked me responsibility. what I thought was missing in law Then the rest of it was pretty much school education. I had a few thoughts. RG: Tell us a little about yourself. - been there, done that. By the time I We finally decided that I would teach a How did you get to where you are retired, I had pretty much done the kinds course that talked about private practice now? of transactions that there were there was and the business of law. My sense was to do for corporate lawyers at large law that there were a lot of lawyers who, KL: I graduated from Yale in 1972, firms- after a while, they all started when they got to be 35 or 40, were from Michigan Law School in 1975, and looking pretty much the same to me. I becoming aware of things about the then went to Chicago, where I worked at was also involved in firm management profession that no one had told them Kirkland and Ellis for 22 years. I retired for a number of years and I felt that I before. So I felt that I wanted to teach from Kirkland at age 47. had made my contribution there. Same a class that would sensitize students to with my area of practice. When I started what it was really going on in private RG: Why did you retire at 47? at the firm,I was the second lawyer in the practice. private equity group. When I left, there KL: That's a complicated question. was well over one hundred lawyers doing RG: Was the course the same then as First, I was lucky to be able to do it what I was doing. I felt the department it is now? financially- both because the law firm had grown l-»--•------ hfM �NtV�I-0FwMtCt:i treated me well and I was able to invest longer as 1mp kl CONTINUED on Page 6 0 CT 05 2005 £ r 4='2 0 05 �------=�� �==2 ===== �=-=�==· ·=· ·=· ======�=\e =s ==® =e =s =tn ==e ·======®=ct=ah======��� �£s �£sfa£ £ditorial: Construction Wol 5.6, .No- 3 ;lliniflersittrof Jll{ic4igan 1fia£tr J§>c44ol Frustrates Disabled Access
Editor-in-Chief ® ngoing construction of the process of reaching classrooms or the sub Mike Murphy pubic policy building now levels of the library with great disdain. makes the law school nigh Getting to Sub-3 from the Monroe street Executive Editor: impenetrable from the south west side. entrance to Legal research, without using Matt Nolan However, the two buildings comprising stairs, takes three separate elevator rides the school's class and library space and about fifteenminutes. Managing Editor: Steven Boender provide at least three other entrances. Students who normally entered via The law school administration, from
Editors-At-Large: State street or commuted from west the students we've talked to, seems both Anne Gordon, Karen Lockman of Monroe street experience but a responsive and sensitive to the needs of minor inconvenience; permanently or handicapped students. Nevertheless, the Contributing Editors: temporarily disabled students however, logistics of reaching and navigating the Megan Barnard, Adam Blumenkrantz, suffer a much greater problem. law school for students with handicaps Diana Geseking, Sarah Getchell, are now more difficult than ever. Matthew Jedreski, Shari Katz, The building's handicapped access, Nate Kurtis, Bria LaSalle, Alexis Long, already not particularly convenient, We hope the law school recognizes Heidi Manschreck, Bayrex Marti, is now alarmingly poor (is slowly these difficulties and does what it can Eunice Rho, Bever�y Schneider, descending towards abysmal/non to ease them. Opening the law school's Michelle Sharpe, Jay Surdukowski, existent?). With more than one M-Law State Street entrance in the near future Kim Thompson student sporting both crutches and may be a lofty goal, but it is not an casebooks, the increased difficulty unreasonable request (particularly since Special Thanks to Carolyn Spencer and regarding access to the law school for we've heard that the State Street entrance MaryAnn Sarosi disabled people has been brought to our was supposed to be open in time for the attention more than usual. first day of classes.)
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By Carolyn Spencer initiate Plan B. He cautioned against first served basis. Recently, a firm from waiting until mid November when all of San Francisco and one from DC had aven't started your job search? your callbacks from EIW and FIP might unfilled slots. Waiting for the phone to ring? be done. Another suggestion Trent made Think everyone has callbacks was to "leverage" your interviews. Once In addition, each year more than 100 ex p you? Or perhaps you know you have a callback in a city,call the other employers that do not participate in that the big firm is not for you, and you firms you haven't heard from in that city EIW or PIP request students to submit haven't even started your job search yet. to let them know when you'll be intown resumes to them either directly or through Think you're the only one? Certainly not, in order to find out whether they also OCS. A listing of these employers (not according to the Office of Career Services. would like to interview you. just law firms) can be accessed on the Assistant Dean for Career Services Susan OCS website at http://www.law.umich. Guindi reports that each year, many When identifying firms to apply to, edu/currentstudents/CareerServices/ students find their summer jobs outside you can send a resume and cover letter jobbulletin.htm. Keep an eye on the of OCI. not only to NALP firmsbut also to firms deadlines for these jobs. or alums listed in Martindale-Hubbell Three members of the 3L class who (www. martindale.com). There are many New this ye ar is the "Small and did just that talked to students on Sept. ways to research firms such as size, Medium Sized Firm Database" at http:// 27th about finding a job outside of location, and practice areas. As noted www.law. umich.edu/currentstudents/ the Law School sponsored interview above, you can also find alumniand other careerservices/jobsearch.htm#firmlist, programs. Jenny Chen, Trent Crable, lawyers that share your ability to speak consisting of law firmslocated in thecities and Leanne Hartmann spoke about another language. Westlaw is also very where most of our students spend their how much they enjoyed the summer helpful in locating lawyers using not 2L summer. These firms hire summer jobs that they obtained through letter only the criteria above but also a lawyer's associates but neither come to campus writing campaigns and networking. All undergraduate institution, membership to interview nor solicit resumes from spoke about the need to be proactive in a sorority or fraternity,or representative our law students. The Database will be and persistent, even if that's not your clients. In addition, Westlaw has the updated continuously, so please share style. The students also emphasized the "Law Student Jobs Online" (LSJO) any information you have by emailing it importance of executing Plan B now and postings. The "Summer Associate Law to [email protected]. not waiting until later in the semester. Firm Directory" is particularly helpful in finding firms that may not be in the Finally,look at the list of where students Leanne Hartmann recommended that NALP Directory as well as firms outside worked in past summers, at http:// students meet with a Career Services the United States. Another function www.law.umich.edu/currentstudents/ counselor to tweak one's resume and allows a student to search for firms careerservices/jobsearch.htm#summer, discuss a job hunting strategy. Leanne that allow split summers with a public and talk to them to find out about their employed several strategies in finding interest or governmentagency. previous employers. There may be firms a job, including a mailing campaign to or companies that would be happy to hire all the law firms in the NALP Directory Under-utilized resources another Michigan law student. that didn't interview on campus or solicit resumes via the Student Job Bulletin. Several promising but under-utilized The bottom line in finding a summer Jenny Chen used the alumni network to resources are available for students job is to be persistent and proactive. Make find her job; using Martindale-Hubbell, looking for summer positions. One is an appointment with a Career Services she identified Michigan grads who spoke late sign up for interviews. During the counselor. We're here to help. Mandarin Chinese - as she does. She Fall Interview Program, schedules of the wrote to them, and landed a job. Like employers interviewing students that Staff members at the Office of Career the other students on the panel, Jenny day are posted on the bulletin board in services also contributed to this article. reiterated the need to follow up with each the Computer Lab, outside of the Career Carolyn Spencer is an Attorner;-Counselor at firm you contact about a job. Services Office's double doors. If an the Officeof Career Services. E-mail the Office employer has a time slot in its schedule of Career Services at [email protected]. Trent Crable emphasized the that isn't filled, then students are allowed importance of not waiting too long to to sign up for interviews on a first come, • J!\.es®.esta.e • ®dob£r 4, 2005 ,, There's Still Time to Save the World: Learn How to Land a Public Interest Job
By MaryAnn Sarosi • Looking at the SFF list of funded and tips on landing a government job. jobs to see where fellow students worked Particularly helpful is the "Appendix: hy can't the government and last summer. This list is on the OPS Federal Departments and Agencies: What public interestjob search be as website (http://www. law. umich.edu/ They Do and Who Does It.") easyas the firmjob search? currentstudents/PublicService/funding/ sff.htm), and a hard copy can be found The student group OPIS has set up If you want to know the answer to that in the career resources library in room a mentorship program for 1Ls and 2Ls question, Grasshopper, you're better off 210 HH. Make an appointment to see me interested in talking to 3Ls with experience foregoing this article and going straight to (MaryAnn Sarosi) after looking at these in governmentor public interest. If you're the horoscopes. If you want some pointers resources. Call Paula Payton at 734-647- a 3L, I encourage you to sign up to provide for the summer job hunt, read on. 3256 to make an appointment. assistance to 1L and 2Ls. If you're a 1Lor 2L, take advantage of this wealth of experience.
First of all, you don't need to have a job • Checking the jobs listed on Please contact Rebecca Teitelbaum at rebt@ in hand now. The public service job hunt Pslawnet.org (www.pslawnet.org). umich.edu to sign up. schedule is NOT the same as the law firm After registering for a password, you hiring schedule. Students often secure can search for "opportunities," which My office will also underwrite some jobs well into March! Having said that, are job descriptions for positions already of your costs to go to job fairs such as you do have to do some homework before listed and/or by "organization," i.e. the upcoming Equal Justice Works Job applying for jobs. type of employer. Opportunities with Fair (October 27, 28 in Washington, numerous governmentagencie s as well as D.C) and the Peggy Browning Worker's The homework should include: prosecutors' and public defenders' offices Rights Conference (October 14 and 15 are listed. in Silver Springs, Maryland). OPIS is Checking out the OPS Student Toolkit coordinating transportation & housing to web page, http://www.law.umich.edu/ • Familiarizing yourself with theOffice the EJW Job Fair. Look for a sign up sheet currentstudents/Public Service/toolkit. of Career Services website; of particular on the board outside the OPS office. htm. Look at the practice area pages, interest is the"Useful Links" section (http:/I and download the Making a Difference www.law.umich.edu/currentstudents/ One word of advice from students Guide on the OPS website, http:// careerservices/usefullinks.htm) who have been to the EJW Job Fair: www.law.umich.edu/currentstudents/ set up interviews before you go to the PublicService/toolkit.htm, and check • Studying our federal government conference. OPS will reimburse $50 Jobnet regularly. employment resources. We have a toward housing/travel and we will pay list of agencies along with deadlines for registration if you submit receipts • Studying Last Year's Summer for applying. Also, we have links to within 3 weeks after the event. Employment List. Find out where other other resources that list government students worked this past summer. Get employment opportunities that you That's the general advice I can provide ideas and get tips from a student who should check out. in the confines of an 800 word article. Of has already worked at the summer job course, if you're seriously considering of your dreams. The OCS web site lists Examples include: pursuing a summer job in government students who are willing to speak with www.la w. arizona. e du/ careerI or public interest, you should make an other students about their summer jobs honorshandbook.cfm - Government appointment to see me or talk to Paula with public interest organizations and Honors and Internship Handbook (for Payton. We can then tailor our discussion state, local, and federal agencies. 2005-2006, the username and password to your interests and needs. are lemon and yellow3); You can access the information MaryAnn Sarosi is the Director of the by clicking on " Student Summer And www.nalp/jobseekers/fedempl. Officeof Public Service. E-mail comments Employment List - Geographic by pdf (a wealth of information that offers about this article to [email protected]. Employer Location" (PDF document) job seekers an in-depth look at the or " Student Summer Employment List government's myriad functions and -Alphabetical by Employer Name." (PDF roles, as well as a glossary of terms • document) unique to the federal application process, ------111 JRcs®cshtc • ®dob.er 4, 2005 �.,_ 5 II Rubin on Roberts: 'He's No Moderate'
By Anne Gordon originalism; words simply don't mean at the confirmation process as a whole. the same thing in every context. Most "The most notable thing about the he debate about "activist scholars concede that Constitution Roberts confirmation hearings," Rubin judges" rages on - particularly as drafted did not explicitly extend said, "was that they were largely boring." as Supreme Court Justices equal rights to African-Americans or In response to a student question, Rubin seem to be dropping like, well, old women, yet such rights are central to tried to explain why: "The skill with people. An "activist judge" stands for our democracy today. What to do? The which the nominees have learned to unelected, unaccountable, and out- of cover their views has basically made them touch academic who thwarts the will meaningless. Thomas said a number of things that bear no resemblance to of the people in an effort to support "If I ltad:n't seen a political agenda. Such a picture is anything he's ever said before or since ... . ERo:berts'sJ Court; generally painted by conservatives of [he] basically read from Souter's script. who urge the judiciary to be more Appeals decis:io;ns, He said he believed that there were accountable, both to the people and to or llis memos in tile rights that weren't enumerated in the the Constitution. But Peter Rubin, co Reagan�Bush Ad- Bill of Rights, and that he agreed with • • Harlan. But then he didn't do anything founder of the American Constitution ,maat,s.. ra oA,Jiloi' " , ns, an d: Society (ACS), thinks that's not what's like that! There's been no mention of see;n these really going on. "The danger of judges ··I'd j11tst Harlan since." getting onto the bench and interjecting llearin,gs, I'd say be ...... "" their own personal preferences into the .see:ms pr:e,.. .., ·· Rubin continued: "[Thomas],basical ly, law isn't coming from the left, or the motfe,rate." 'fill in your euphemism for "lied."'" center, but from the right," he says. Roberts, too, was deliberately equivocal .. PETER RUJ811N in his answers. "He wrote a memo to In a· speech given to UMLS students O'Connor [when he was in the Reagan in 150 Hutchins on September 19, Rubin administration] that said'show them your tried to outline the basis of conservative knowledge of the law and don't answer legal theory,linking it to the confirmation conservatives on the Court have made up any questions.' He's written the perfect of Judge Roberts to the Supreme Court. a standard of regarding the Coristitution script, so that no one has to tell anyone at the "narrowest level of generality." anything!" This new mode of judicial He first presented an outline of confirmation hearings leaves Rubin, and conservative legal theory. He started with This is all well and good, says Rubin, others, asking whether the hearings have a warning. "The Right has vastly superior except for the fact that this standard was become essentially meaningless. skills in public relations; that's why the simply "made up." This standard appears names they give sound fantastic ... who as many times in traditional legal theory Rubin closed with another warning. would be against 'textualism?"' as many of the legal theories mocked by "Either, Judge Roberts is far more modern conservatives (penumbras and moderate than anyone had ever thought, The reality, though, says Rubin, is emanations, anyone?). or he's created a false impression that he that all lawyers are textualists, because is .... If I hadn't seen his Court of Appeals they believe in the written word of The standard and its construction decisions, or his memos in the Reagan/ the Constitution. In that sense, he relates directly to the Roberts nomination Bush Administrations, and I'd just seen advances, all lawyers are "originalists," because Roberts invokedthe "narrowest these hearings, I'd say he seems pretty as well. However, the disagreements level of generality" standard during his moderate." But, Rubin said, "I have seen lie in what to do after this point. "With confirmation hearings. Rubin argues that these opinions. He's no moderate." the Violence Against Women Act, the although he did so in a more moderate Court said that Congress can't regulate way than Rehnquist, Scalia, and Thomas For more information on the American domestic violence," Rubin said. "But have done, adoption of any of these legal Constitution Society,go to http://students. the Constitution Art. IV said that they theories would "impact all of our lives." law. umich.edu/acs/. have the right to take action against Rubin emphasized the importance of insurrection or domestic violence!" truly understanding the impact of what Roberts said in the hearings. • In this sense, Rubin says, everyone thinks that there's such thing as He then stepped back and took a look --- ����fi�==== ��=�-.t�'�.���·== �)R�es�®�e�s�tn�e�·======®=c=ro=h===£ r4==,2==0 0 ====5 ���� ------
LUTZ, from Page 1 RG: What else are you doing now? KL: Maybe a couple of reasons. They probably saw the demands that there are KL: On the professional side, I do some being in a service business like the law. KL: The course was originally called legal work for people that I did legal work Also, I probably never viewed myself as "law as a business." When I started for before. I also have been asked to be an being a real lawyer 's lawyer. I was more teaching, I thought I wanted to teach expert witness in a couple of cases. of a business lawyer, more interested in students about how law firms operated the business aspects of the deals that I and what the business of law is really RG: What are you an expert in? did. My practice was primarily in private like, but what I found over time was equity- leveraged acquisitions, venture that students were more interested KL: One of the cases has to do with a capital and thelike- so I always was aware in job counseling. So I redirected the compensation dispute between a highly of the business side of what I was doing. course more towards helping students compensated partner and a very large My children were probably aware that I to understand the recruiting process and law firm. So I'm a compensation expert talked more about the business aspects of understandingthe differences among the in that particular case. Another one has what I did than I talked about the legal law firms. to do with contract interpretation. I enjoy aspects. these assignments because they present a RG: Tell us about the RG: Did you always plan "Law Firms" course. to do business law? Why did you go to law school in KL: The basic theme of the firstplace? course is that not all law firms are the same. They KL: I was at Yale in the late have different cultures, sixties and early seventies. different things that are This was a very activist important to them, different time on college campuses. value systems. Individual It was not considered a law students have different particularly acceptable value systems and different thing for students to go things that are important to into business. If we were them. I want to emphasize going to change the world, to the students how as we thought we would, desirable it is to make a the law provided a more good match between the student and different kind of challenge. appropriate venue for change. I thought the law firm. most Yalies pretty much looked at three RG: Do you have family? choices- there was medicine or law or The law firms class is an exposure class business. Maybe a few people wanted - my intention is to expose students to KL: Yes- I have 3 children-they to be teachers. I always thought about the reality of private practice. I don't place matter to me more than anything else. law or business. By the time I graduated tremendous demands on the students; I One of my original reasons for coming in 1972, nobody was going into business am basically throwing a bunch of stuff to teach here was that my oldest son and everybody was trying to go to law out there. My other classes place different was an undergraduate in the business school. demands upon the students. school. Then my second son also came to Michigan as an undergraduate, and RG: Would you do anything different RG: In what way? then my daughter also decided to come if you did it all over again? here. Kelsey is now a senior in the KL: The other classes are more undergraduate business school. KL: During my early years of practice, demanding. You really have to want to I had a number of opportunities to go be in these classes - enrollment is limited RG: All of your children were in the over to the business side, but for a variety and I get to pick who gets in. I've taught business school here? of reasons I always stuck with the law. private equity classes, and am currently My firm was particularly cooperative teaching what is called "Business KL: The second one actually majored in in enabling me to do things as a young Transactions Practicum I" and "Business economics, but is currently in investment lawyer that other young lawyers were Transactions Practicum II." The courses banking in New York. None of them not permitted to do, and they were pretty are an attempt to simulate the experience seem like they are headed towards the flexiblein compensatingme in a way that that a young associate, in private practice, law, though. was unusual for large firms. in a corporate department would have. So it's not supposed to be easy. CONTINUED on Next Page RG: Why do you think that is? ------111 �cs (}f)cshtc • ®.ctoher 4, 2005 CONTINUED from Previous Page at schools like Michigan end up inprivate Welt the ability to write is critical, and RG: What do you like to do for fun? practice at least at the outset. Whether or law school does a good job of identifying not they willbe in private practice forever, those people. But there is a much broader KL: Most people know that I'm an avid I still think they should think about going range of skills that are relevant to success golfer - I belong to courses in Illinois, to the right place, because you will still in practice--problem solving, people Michigan, South Carolina and Ireland, be spending most of your waking hours skills, management skills and the like. and I also take several other trips a year at your job. In my smaller classes, students do a lot to golfing destinations. I also like to of projects of the type that they would travel a lot, which I am more able to do RG: Are you happier nowthat you are do if they were working at a law firm. now. Last summer I spent a couple of not working at a law firm? If I have a student for one term, I have a weeks in China with my daughter, and I lot of exposure to their work, their skills also spent time traveling in Greece with KL: People have asked me what I miss and their approach- things that will be a very good friend. about working at the law firm. I say relevant to them when they practice law. basically 2 things. First of alt I miss the More so if I have them for two terms. RG: How long do you expect to stay paycheck, and secondly I miss all of the There is certainly a correlation between at Michigan? wonderfut talented people that I worked students with high grade points and with. Really special people. students who do well in those classes, KL: Well, since I am not tenured, it is a but it is not as much as you would expect. year to year thing. I really enjoy teaching. RG: Speaking of wonderful talented Whether somebody has a 3.8, 3.6, 3.4, or The reason I originally went into teaching people, what has been your impression 3.2 at this place, in my view, does not and the reason I teach today is because I of the students you've been working really operate as a great predictor as to feel that I am making a contribution. As with here? how well they will do in the practice of a practicing lawyer at a large law firm, law. you are representing large organizations, KL: I've been very impressed with the for-profitgenerally, and my practice was quality of the students at Michigan law RG: How should students decide, representing investors who were hoping School. .. talented, highly motivated, goal then, where they should practice? to get rich. This is fine, but I felt that it oriented. would be nice at some point in my life to · KL: The message of my law firmsclass do something where I felt I was helping RG: Do you have any criticisms of the is, first ask yourself, what is important people. Teaching gives me that outlet. students here? to you? And then try to make the appropriate match. It is not "one size RG: What are some of the most KL: I wouldn't suggest that this is fits all." rewarding experiences you've had as a necessarily a criticism, but some of the professor? things that I failed to understand when RG: Do you think that the law school I started teaching were that students are does a good job in guiding students KL: It's nice when people tell you incredibly grade conscious, and related toward the right match? that you are doing a good job, and to that, they are anxious to know exactly it's nice when you get good reviews. what they are supposed to do in order KL: That's a very difficult thing to do, I It is particularly nice when students to accomplish their objective of getting believe. Obviously, career services helps communicate with me after leaving the a good grade. a lot and students should take advantage University of Michigan. So probably one of that. One of the problems is that most of the most satisfying things is having RG: Do you think we should be of the faculty that teaches here at the law someone come back to me 2, 3, 4 or 5 focused on other things? schoot particularly the tenured faculty, years later and say that "you really helped does not have a tremendous amount of me a whole lot/' whether it be with the KL: It is an unfortunate fact of life experience with private practice. So, as selection of a law firm or approach to the that the grades that students obtain a general matter, it is difficult for them practice or something like that. in law school determine the range of to advise students as to what various opportunities that they have when they practicing jobs are like. RG: Do you think that all lawstudents graduate. So it is understandable. But should go into private practice? unfortunately, it is not clearto me that a A related concernis that many are now student's grade point average correlates saying that law schools may not be doing KL: I certainly don't think everybody terrifically well to success as a practicing a very good job of preparing students to should end up in private practice - it is lawyer. be practitioners. a tough business, a competitive business, and terribly demanding. But it is a fact of RG: What qualities do correlate to CONTINUED on Page 8 life that a high percentage of law students success as a practicing lawyer? ����8==� == ����· �· ���==��c�s�®�c=s=ta�c�·======®do ==h£r ==4=, =2 ==0 0 ==5 �- 11�------CONTINUED from Previous Page KL: I think that existing trends things the same way for a really long will continue and accelerate. The law time, and that it not as relevant today as Do you agree with that? Do you think business will move in the directions of it used to be. that law schools will veer away from consolidation, globalization and increased teaching theory to teach more about use of technology.The unfortunate fact for In the firstye ar of law school we have a practice? individual attorneys is, if you are capable certain set of subjects. When Abe Lincoln, of doing something in a very short period in the 1840s, decided to be an attorney, KL: I am a firm believer that law school of time, you will be expected to do it. For what do you think he studied? Probably education must change, and at some that reason I think that the demands on pretty much the same subjects. This point, will change. It will be necessary professionals' lives in private practice will worked pretty well for Abe because what for law schools to do more to teach law continue to increase. Abe did as a practicing attorney was get students how to practice law. It used to on a horse with a couple of other lawyers be the case that somebody could leave law RG: What should law schools be and judges and ride around to local towns school and go to a law firm and nothing doing better to prepare students for the and handle disputes between individuals, was expected of them. Associates had a changes in the profession? or between the local jurisdiction and the fairly lengthy period where they could individuals. The kinds of subjects you observe practicing attorneys and learn The Michigan Law School faculty would talk about in the first year of law in that fashion. is awesome. They are brilliant, great school. scholars, great teachers, and leaders in With the explosion in law firm salaries, their profession. On many occasions, Practice of law in law firms today is law finns need to charge out new attorneys I have expressed my belief that the nothing like what Abe was doing back at very high billing rates. New lawyers capabilities and talents of this faculty in the 1840s. You are representing large time at large firms are charged out at exceed that of the senior partners at business organizations, companies, and more than $200 per hour. For $200 per top law firms - and these partners are financial institutions. Their issues are hour, clients expect, and reasonably so, making millions per year. differentthan the issues that individuals that people will be able to do something. had back then. Most students that leave this law school What we have to get better at is are not able to do much that is of value the preparing students for the practice of law. I also am concerned about how we first day they arrive at the firms. I really hope that the faculty here will test student skills. In most cases, we are make greater efforts toward working with asking students to absorb a large body RG: What other trends have you practitioners to better prepare students. of law, and then look at fact situations observed in the practice of law? and spot issues. Fine, but I don't that law RG: What other changes might be school practice is like this. KL: Law firm practice has changed necessary? dramatically since the time I started The practice of law is more like a take practicing law. Technology has changed a KL: There is a lot of debate about home exam. You have a problem to solve, lot of things, and there is now information whether law school should be just two an objective to accomplish, and you can available to anybody that wants it. years. Think about it. If you are going use any resources that you can bring to Before 1977, law firms were not able to to be a doctor, you go to school for a bear on the situation. Clients want you advertise. They were not able to tell period of time, and then you go into to solve the problem, win the case, and anybody anything about their internal your internships and residencies. You accomplish the objective. They really operations, their clients or anything. actually practice being a doctor before don't care how you get it done. If you Starting in 1977, with the Supreme Court's you actually do it. There is nothing want to test students as to whether they decision in Bates, but certainly more so in like that in law - nobody's learning will be good practitioners, give them the the eighties with the American Lawyer how to be a lawyer before they actually kind of assignments that they will receive and other publications, information go do it. Why not have law school be in practice. Solve problems, accomplish became available, including detailed two years and then have some kind of objectives, be creative in coming up with information about law firm profitability apprenticeship program where a student solutions to real issues. and individual lawyer incomes. Now, has an opportunity to really learnhow to there is intense competition for new practice law? RG: When and how might some of lawyers and existing lawyers. It is a lot these changes happen? more difficult for firms to attract and RG: Are there changes that can be retain lawyers than it was in the past. made in the way law school is taught, KL: Law schools will have to change. as well? The marketplace will demand it. Michigan RG: Do you anticipate things is well-positioned to be a leader in this continuing in this direction? I don't have all of the answers. It just process . seems to me that we have been doing • ------111 �es (1i)eshte • ®dober 4, 2005 Me As A Lawyer: Better Than Shatner?
By Mike Murphy See, I came from an undergraduate The first year it was, and I'm not degree (Journalism) where some of my kidding, whether and by how much the writing assignment I had last classmates' primary concern in terms of professors seemed to like you. You'd week required some outside their scholastic aptitude was how their hair think this would only be an issue if, say, research, with the instruction and face looked in front of a camera. I was Jessica Alba or Vin Diesel were teaching th y r judgment as to when you told repeatedly that grades didn't matter. I law school classes (bioethics and feminist have done enough will be a measure flourished in such an environment. Some jurisprudence, respectively.) of your present adequacy as a lawyer." days my classmates' primary concern in That made the assignment easy for terms of their scholastic aptitude is the Yet in some way, large or small, these me, since my measure of my present B+ distribution in last year's offering of were the things we cared about. I've seen adequacy as a lawyer is very, very low. the Jurisdiction course. It's because of it before. Even many of my television (Relax. I'm not going to self-destructively this that I hate printing the grade curves. journalist buddies are caring about descend into alcohol-soaked depravity. I hate them more than I hate misuses of what you could call "the wrong things" My friends and I already do that every the hearsay rule on "Law & Order." (Cup -money,prestige, fame. The ones that do weekend, particularly since we acquired check! If you laughed at that joke, you're well are the ones who cared less about the kegerator.) officially a nerd. 3 p.m., bike racks, bring how much credit they got and who saw your lunch money.) My friends read the what they did, and more about making But am I the only one who felt like I was curves,and spend two days talking about themselves happy doing something they playing a lawyer on TV this summer? I their flunking out and bleak future - and really liked to do. The other ones are kept expecting William Shatner to walk these are my friends who have GPAs either frustrated our out of the game. into my office with no pants on, talking above the median. At least they did last about making out with the managing year. This year, they don't come to class But that's the tv biz - a hypercompetitive partner, Murphy Brown. (Did you guys and haven't seen the paper. job market filled with Type-A personalities see that "Boston Legal" commercial? and extremely limited chances for Some guy at ABC must have been all like One way (and not the best) to eliminate advancement. Other than that, it's nothing "And then Shatner comes in with no pants self-doubt is through external validation. at all like being a lawyer. on!" and the rest of the boardroom was In the third year, the primary way to like "Brilliant! Put it in the teaser.") do this is through accepted permanent "Your judgment as to when you have offers and, for the advanced doubters, done enough will be a measure of your When I told my mother that I was clerkships. Some people are going present adequacy as a lawyer." Our going to write my next column on my into clerking because their intellectual present adequacies as lawyers are low inadequacy as a lawyer, she angrily curiosity isn't yet satisfiedand they'd like because we're not lawyers yet. No magical accused me of libel ("I did not raise an to delay practice. Others are interviewing ceremony happens upon bar completion inadequate son!" and so on) and declared because they, for some reason, feel they that makes us more competent (except if herself a bad mother. I'm fairly immune should. I think some others are going my future employers are reading this, in to her Irish Mother guilt trips at this because it allows them to nonchalantly which case I'm just kidding.) We have to point, so I said that truth is an absolute mention their "offers" and "callbacks" develop our professional judgment the defense to libel. So if she's suing me for some more. same way every other professional does insinuating that she's a bad mother (by by (har-har) trial and error. way of rearing my Cowardly Litigator See, last year, it was the same song self) but confirmingwhat I'm insinuating, but with summer job offers. It was even Which reminds me. Just like Shatner then I win. "You sound pretty adequate harder then not to gauge your self worth would, I filed a counterclaim against to me," is what she said next. Curse her on the offers you have. But they're just Mom for defamation, and she brought and her craftiness. offers, guys. I mean that whether you're an action to sanction me for practicing sitting on several or begging for one. without a license. That old lady is Maybe law school is the Irish Mother How well you work in practice and crajh;. we all never had. The one that loves us (more importantly) who you are as a (or at least our money), but makes us feel co-worker determine your real worth Mike Murphy is the Editor-in-Chi�{ of Res guilt-ridden and inadequate. Even if you to a law firm. If you're a smart guy but Gestae. E-mail comments about this article think I'm crazy, admit that the nexus of also a total dorkus, you (yes, you) are and criticisms about the way he treats his brain power and self-doubt in law school not going to make partner. You read mother to rg@umichPtiu . is surprising -and compelling. it here first. Be afraid. Be very afraid. • II 10 �-- �.es�.esh t.e • ®daher 4, 2005 11-1------Last Chance to Take Part in the Record- BreakingNannes Third-Ye ar Challenge
By Matt Nolan and then have to witness the crunch it Even 3Ls currently without any solid job ® creates on us daily. Tu ition goes up out prospects know that 98-99% of Michigan nly halfway through the of necessity; state appropriations to the Law grads enjoy employment within a anticipated pledge drive school continue to dwindle and represent few months of graduation, and the first period, the Class of 2006 has a lower percentage of the Law School donation through the Challenge is not become the strongest budget (2.5% this year, meaning 97.5% due until May of 2007. If giving class the we're truly honest, there Nannes Third-Year is not a SINGLE one of Challenge has seen us, even without a job, in its eleven-year who could not afford $50 history (121 pledges a year and a half from have been submitted now, $75 a year after as of September 29.), that, and $100 a year after something we can that...especially those all be very proud of us with firm jobs. If of. Thatbeing said, you're working at a large there are still plenty big-city law firm after of reasons why the graduation, your pledge Law School's student amounts to about one organizations and hour of pay PER YEAR. the Law School itself need you to TheChallenge officially join your peers and ends either on October 13 take the Challenge, or when the 200th pledge if you haven't done is submitted, whichever so already. Only comes first. With some of 79 pledges remain Seen here: The box in question. Also seen here: nerds. your classmates pledging until the 200-donation as much as $500/year limit will keep you from being a part of of funding comes from private sources). already, please ask yourself how much history in the making, so get your form The Law School pinches its own budget the Law School and its organizations in ASAP! as much as possible before raising tuition, mean to you, and please, take the Nannes but for the school to become what it Third-Year Challenge today. Reason #1: $50,000. More money is COULD be, it needs to expand programs, availablethroughthe Nannes3LChallenge not contract them. Your support of the Forms are available by the yellow than through LSSS appropriations Law School Fund by participating in the submission box at the Reading Room for student organizations ($250 x 200 Nannes Third-Ye ar Challenge is the most desk, or at the Challenge's website pledges). Read that again- the challenge direct way you can help the "U" grow below. could more than DOUBLE the yearly and have your children's children still be budgets of student organizations (some impressed when you tell them you went http://www.law.umich. already have). If you're the chair of a to Michigan. e du/A 1 u mni an dD eve lopment/ student organization that could use more thirdyearchallenge/ money, leaning on your 3Ls is the easiest Reason #3: Simply, we can. Through and most flush way to get much-needed alum John Nannes's ('73) generous Matt Nolan is the Executive Editor of the dough or to take your group to the next contribution of $50,000/year, we are RG and is on the Executive Committee for level. offered an incentive structure that is too the Nannes Third-Year Challenge. He can good to be true. According to Career be reached with questions regarding either at Reason #2: The Law School needs Services, 73% of the Class of 2004 took mjnolan®umich.ed u. it. While it may not always seem like jobs in private practice, and most of the it, schools absolutely HATE raising 15% who took judicial clerkships will tuition; they know we can't afford it, have firm jobs waiting for them as well. • ------lll 2Jlcs The Annual Fund of the University of Michigan Law School 2005 Nannes Third-Year Challenge Yes! 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This could have happened: Dean Zearfoss is why, despite the fact I lack a diverse accidentally put the wrong letter in my � t seems that the beginning of cultural background, I am now a envelope. each new school year just gets member of the Black, Jewish, Christian, tougher and tougher. There Buddhist, Muslim, Native American, Clearly that isn't what happened. The we some familiar experiences: selling Asian Pacific Islander, Republican, fine men and women who work in my body to science (again) so I can Democrat, Federalist, Constitutional, admissions don't make mistakes - and afford textbooks, weathering orientation Armed Forces, Intellectual Property, if you don't believe me, make a federal ("Of course the ice-cream social is Entertainment Media and Arts, Surfing, case out of it. (Again, please don't kick mandatory!"), and showing up to the Latino, Women, and Canine law student me out.) What is more likely is that wrong classroom for my first class of associations. They have all been very I've just imagined the whole thing. My the year. friendly and welcoming. I think they do admissions letter wasn't from Dean this hoping I'll pay dues. Obviously they Zearfoss telling me I had been accepted I also managed to spend all the rest don't understand why I'm scrounging for to Michigan Law School, but was instead of the money I had left on a "Michigan free pizza in the first place. from Ed McMahon telling me I may have Law" shirt. I can no longer afford things already won 10 million dollars. The like food, but this purchase was at least But I didn't write this column to folder I received at orientation wasn't my as necessary as my Contracts book since it discuss the important issues of the Law course schedule and book list but was would (surreptitiously) advertise the fact Student Surfing Club. Instead, it was to instead a booklet of coupons to Meijer's. I that I was a "law student" to the " co-eds" discuss the experiences of the "average" won't even mention the fact that I've of the undergraduate population in four incoming law student. probably been listening to my lectures inch tall gold lettering across my chest. from the squirrels on the Diag. We've all heard about the amazing You would think this wouldn't work. class of '08: the UM basketball captain, Ifthis really is the case, I'm too far gone It doesn't. I mean, anyone can (and the Peace Corps volunteers, the Fulbright for any help. Instead, I should just focus apparently does) buy one of these scholars, and the NASA rocket scientist. my energy on survivingthis first semester shirts. It turnsout proof of attending law We did not, however, hear about me. But of law school. This is why I formed a school isn't necessary and being a law if we did, Dean Caminker would have study group to help me learnthe material, student may actually hurt your chances mentioned about the student who won and with whom I can commiserate about with girls. Metal Gear: Solid Snake in one 34-hour the quality of our classmates. sitting. One example of this phenomenon is Unfortunately, I don't think talking found in the women who attend law Listening to Dean Caminker speak with the Olympic gymnast and the school with me. They know I go here about my fellow incoming lLs, and Nobel Prize winner has helped all that but just aren't all that impressed by the meeting them while enjoying mandatory much. Maybe instead I should organize fact. Also, most women don't like it when ice cream, I found I was asking myself one my own group: the Dumb Law Students your pillow talk is in Latin: I'll res ipsa question over and over (the same question Association (DLSA). I would then be your loquitor, baby. Or not. I'm sure many " average" members of the able to attract like-minded individuals class of '08 are asking themselves): Why by offering free pizza at an organizational Since I no longer have any money, on earth did they let me in? meeting. I should be able to afford that; my diet now consists exclusively of free after all, I may have already won 10 pizza. I wander the halls during lunch, Of course, it would be a simple matter million dollars. sniffing for the scent of Cottage Inn or to go meet with the folks over in the Papa John's. admissions office and find out first Nate Kurtis is an odd fi rst year law hand. This is something I certainly plan student. Questions, comments, and looks of Some groups don't mind my grazing to never do. I'm terrified the admissions puzzlement can be sent to him at nkurtis@ and tum a blind eye when I eat and run, staffis going to realizewhat they've done, umich.edu. No other warranties expressed but most require some consideration pull me aside, and explain that this has or implied. on my part in exchange for my meal. all been some kind of big mistake. It is They require that I actually listen to possible to see how something like that • ------lll �£s Qi)£sin£ • ®ctoher 4, 2DD5 Violate Some Copyrights To night: Check Out These New Tr acks on the D/L By Matthew Jedresk i The Cribs, "New Fellas" hustler/full-time grinder distinguishes himself from fellow Houstonians Mike c7ij he Boy Least Likely To, ''The Andy: ��what's this music you're Jones and Paul Wall with sonorous non \.!.J-Best Party Ever" listening to?" repetitiverh ymes flowing over minimalist Neptunes' tracks. "Three Kings" and r------�-=------� I have a soft spot for The Boy Least 11Like a Boss" feature Fosse brass Likely To because they remind me of beats and a catchy drawl (when he the-uncoordinated kid in my second says "girls" it sounds like 11guhhhs"). grade music class. Mrs. Gilbert would III Ain't Heard of That" shines as the give him the triangle or the washboard single that gives away Slim's patented or some other instrument that didn't philosophy on pimping ("I'm just here require too much dexterity, and the to train hos I put' em on the main road look on his face as he banged along with I teach'em how to change clothes"). "This Land is Your Land" was one ot The album is basically devoid, much to welt pure joy. my relief, of any social commentary or positive message. ��Dedicate" laments "The Best Party Ever" sounds like the killings of friends as a result of gang the result of locking a folk singer, a hits, but foregoes a "stop the violence" musically gifted hipster, and a couple message in favor of a death threat to of cats fromthe 60s Californiasunshine those responsible. Besides a sentimental rock scene in a grade school music room ballad to "Miss Mary" (yes, LLMs along with all those quirky instruments - the drug Cannabis), Slim sticks to II (remember the glockenspiel?). The tracks, Matt: lilt's the new album from The convincing us he was ''Already Platinum particularly ��Monsters/' "Warm Panda Cribs." before this album. Check out that badass Cola/' and "Paper Cuts/' are breezy Andy: "It sounds like The Strokes." pic of him in the cd case... is it the firstof and lyrically reminiscent of Belle and Matt: "It's way better. Julian Casablancas the month already? Gimme a few more Sebastian, but full of childish whimsy. is a vain, lazy hack. These guys talk shit days, Daddy,I'll get that money I swear. about hipsters, rather than trying to be "I'm Glad I Hitched My Apple Wagon their gods. That's so deck." Buy this album if: Yo u want to get off To Your Star" coquettishly begs me to Andy: 11Are you wearing your the streets, get a hot meal in your belly, forget about my work and to mosey on girlfriend's jeans?" have a real man takin' care of ya. down at the ole' pond for a dip. I'd go, but Matt: IIYeah. Mine are at the tailor's." I'm tripping so hard that the faces on the Don't buy this album if: You're not trees swayingto the music are creeping me Buy this album if: You've always scared of catching a mean ass-whupping out. "I've got the blues I I've got lift in my wondered what a 45-minute orgasm when Slim Thugga finds out. shoes I And I'm scared ofthe countryside/ I feels like. can't sleep ' cause I see spiders when I close Be Your Own Pet, "Damn Damn my eyes." Me too, man, me too. Don't buy this album if: You're deaf. Leash" Buy this album if: You need some Slim Thug. "Already Platinum" Eighteen year-old Jemina Pearl Abegg cheering up after reading about a is absolutely the sexiest thing in music catastrophic Bush blunder. 11You know the boss talk shit I walk shit I right now. She makes Gwen Stefani flossshit /like it don't cost shit I that's why look like a pack mule, and the girl can Don't buy this album if: You were I'm the boss bitch." There's something so sing. "She's ripping off Karen 0 [of the sexually abused in the lilt's a Small compellingabout the baritone confidence Ye ah Ye ah Ye ahs ]/'scoffe d my girlfriend, World After All11 room at Disneyworld in Slim Thug's voice that after listening who's clearly jealous that a printed out and/or vote Republican. One ride on lilt's to "A lready Platinum" for the first time I picture of Abegg with hearts drawn all a Small World" was enough, thank you found myself out on the streets hooking very much. for him. The self-proclaimed part-time Continued on Page 19 ®doh.er 4, ZOOS II Attractive Nuisance: Introducing the Poetry of Robert Lowell By Jay Surdukowski kittens swills the garbage pail She jabs her wedge-head in a his week I introduce a cup poem by Robert Lowell of sour cream, drops her ostrich W(1917-1977). Lowell is a tail, giant of American poetry and a and will not scare. leading figure in the school of "Confessional Poets." This poem is Lowell was a great man. His poetic from his groundbreaking 1959 book voice boomed with the authority of a Life Studies: brash god. His is the voice we would expect from one affiliatedby blood Skunk Hour and soul with the famous Boston saying: "So this is good old Boston. For Elizabeth Bishop The home of the bean and the cod. Where the Lowells talk only to the Nautilus Island's hermit Cabots. And the Cabots talk only to heiress still lives through winter God." How intimidating to be born in her Spartan cottage; into a family that had conquered her sheep still graze above the both civilian and military life, into sea. a family with two great poets before Her son's a bishop. Her farmer him -James Russell Lowell and is first selectman in our village, Amy Lowell. she's in her dotage. Robert Lowell. ©Paul Bishop But Lowell's branch of the family Thirsting for down, fell on hard times. Life Studies is the book the hierarchic privacy they lay together, hull to hull, that lays it all bare. His alcoholic father's of Queen Victoria's century, where the graveyard shelves on the pitiful trips to the naval history museum, she buys up all town .... solace from his idiocy with business and the eyesores facing her shore, My mind's not right. family. His mother's distance. His own and lets them fall. bouts of deep depression, illness, and A car radio bleats, committal to hospitals. He was like Toad The season's ill-- 'Love, 0 careless Love ....'I hear in the Wind and the Willows, gunning to we've lost our summer millionaire, my ill-spirit sob in each blood cell, wreck cars, boats, planes. who seemed to leap from an L. L. as if my hand were at its throat .... Bean I myself am hell, That lust for life led him to break a catalogue. His nine-knot yawl nobody's here- wife's nose in a car accident, punch out was auctioned off tolobstermen. his father in front of his mother, transfer A red fox stain covers Blue Hill. only skunks, that search from stoic Harvard to sleepy Kenyon in the moonlight for a bite to eat. College in Gambier, Ohio, and serve a And now our fairy They march on their soles up Main six month prison term for conscientiously decorator brightens his shop for fall, Street: objecting to World War II (images of his fishnet's filled with orange cork, white stripes, moonstruck eyes' red our firebombings drove a stake through orange, his cobbler's bench and awl, fire his Catholic soul). He once moved to there is no money in his work, under the chalk-dry and spar spire Tennessee to be with his poetic heroes he'd rather marry. of the Trinitarian Church. - and promptly had an affair with one of his hero's wives. He turned down One dark night, I stand on top President Johnson's invitation to the my Tu dor Ford climbed the hill's of our back steps and breathe the rich White House to protest the war. He had a skull, air-- I watched for love-cars. Lights turned a mother skunk with her column of CONTINUED on Page 19 ------lll JRes®estae • ®doh£r 4, 2005 ls ll Tw o-Time Contender Gives Campbell Advice By John Fedynsky other will be the big bad state. If you seemed to show that scoring depended never plan to do appellate constitutional less on the abilities and the performances ditor's Not" The Compbell Moot litigation, then Campbell is the best of the competitors and more on who the Court Competition is often a rite chance you'll ever have to give it a go. judges happened to be. Cynicism and 'l of passage fo r 2Ls, and a great way By the way,you also don't choose which resentment crept in. Sad to say, there a side you represent. If you advance far were feelings and perceptions among to xperience in brief writing and oral argument. Ifyou would like to participate, enough, you will represent both sides. competitors of gender bias, racial bias, please email campbell-help®umich.edu. journalfavori tism (remember, the faculty Consider the following recommendations The Judges judges generally know who does what for offered by an alumnus who competed twice. Alumni serve as judges in the first what journals)and the like. I do not know round and they are a mixed bag. Then it's if those feelings reflectedthe reality of the Deadlines faculty in the quarterfinal and semifinal situation. But I know that those feelings They're huge. You must sign up on rounds. Finally, there is a distinguished were there and that some people would time to compete. You must turn in your panel of, usually, federal judges for the rather not have them or deal with them, brief on time to have a shot at winning. final round. As can be expected, the which is reason enough not to enter. expertise and scoring of the judges vary. Time Commitment As a general rule, none of the alumni Prestige This consideration is even bigger. are constitutional experts and therefore Real federal judges come to score the Seriously competing in Campbell is like simply enjoy hearing good arguments. final round. Lots of faculty and students taking on another three-credit course - Be prepared for sometimes puzzling show up. The stakes are high. Winning except you do not get any formal academic questions. In the quarterfinal round, is a big deal. For that re ason alone, credit for it. Considerable research and most of the faculty judges also are many tolerate some of the negative writing is involved. If you do not think not constitutional experts. Only in the aspects outlined above. Because of the that you will have the time to do it right, semi-final round do some of our con prestige, though, people can be defensive, then you probably should not do it at all. law teachers volunteer their time. They petty and downright mean. For the ask tougher, more nuanced questions most part, though, everyone is civil. Picking a Partner that pre-suppose a lot of knowledge. Choosing a partner with whom you A Note about the Board work well is key. There are some horror Emotional Investment The students who research and write stories out there. For that reason, I do This aspect of the competition is the problem and who organize the not recommend registering without probably the most unexpected and, in competition deserve a lot of credit. a partner of your own choice. You my view, unavoidable. When you spend They do a lot of work and add a lot to will work hard, in close quarters and so much time on something, it is hard not the academic community here. Yet they under pressure, so it helps to be friends. to get wrapped up in it all. And unlike in get overlooked. Worse yet, competitors, real life, the judges are explicitly deciding whetheremotionallyunstableornot,canbe Nit-picking how good you are as an advocate, not downright ungrateful. Kudos to the board! There are all kinds of rules about what whose stde prevails on the legal merits. font to use, page limits, etc. If you hate stuff The deeper I went into the competition In Conclusion like that, then Campbell is not for you. last year, the more subjective the judging Personally, Campbell was a genuinely became. One panel asked lots of questions positive experience. There were Money and gave great feedback Another was drawbacks, to be sure, but I had a heck Printing 18 copies of your brief, which cold and seemed to just want to go eat of a time and look forward to doing it is required, costs money that you may the free food afterwards. Sometimes you all over again. Weigh the considerations or may not prefer to spend otherwise. think you crushed the other side in oral above and see how things shake out for argument, but the scores came out pretty you. Most people who study here only get Subject Matter of the Problem even. Other times, you think you had two shots at the prize. Life is short - take You don't get to choose it and you do an offnight and you score well. Or you your best shots. not get to see it before signing up. Bet on get a low score for no apparent reason. a constitutional issue involving one of john Fedynsky ('04)lives in Detroit and the big amendments - Fourteenth, Fifth, More than anything in law school, works fo r the Michigan Court of Appeals. First, you get it. One party will probably Campbell made me sympathize with be a sympathetic individual and the legal realists. 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Also, the skunk's damn damn leash I and it's hard enough his generation. hell red eyes, the graveyard, and the to be myself") like a stereotypical female puritanical and spired downtown in rocker, but these recent high school grads ******* darkness. from Nashville have such a quintessential garage-punk sound that you won't mind "Skunk Hour" is a poem written The emotional nausea of the poem being the creepy old guy at the party. on the edge. Set in coastal Maine where lies in the speaker's voyeuristic trip to spy Lowell lived at times, it begins almost on lovers parked in their cars. There is a Buy this album if: Yo u have early like a film would. There is a slow, feeling in the pit of the reader's stomach, childhood memories of being turned on dreamy gaze. The camera picks out like walking past Michigan dorms alone by Blondie videos. some characters to quietly follow. We on a Saturday night and being both meet a rich Yankee widow who, like the attracted and repelled by the glimpse of Don't buy this album if: You're insecure Rockefellers in Tarrytown, buys up all lovers stumbling into each othet� eager listening to a woman who is both hot and the land on the opposite shore to keep mouths and quick hands. could kick your ass. her vista clean. But she longs for a richer past. The rich man who fancies himself After this night of madness, of the "Paradise Lost" allusion of "I myself am Matthew Jedreski is a lL. E-mail comments a sailor has sold his boat to the plebian - about this article to [email protected]. lobsterman-his finery has gone to the hell," a strange optimism and calm rears dogs. Some have read in this character its head like the skunk from the sour something of Lowell's father, who left cream cup. The speaker is back home • the honor of the sea to find an honor in and on his porch. The air is suddenly business, and found nothing but failure. rich. He sees the fearless mother skunk NUISANCE, from Page 14 The family's material wealth passed to and we are left with the feeling that like crush on the anti-war Minnesotan Senator lesser hands. the determined critter, our hero "will and minor poet/presidential candidate not scare." Both Lowell and the equally Eugene McCarthy, whom he called "a one The gay shop proprietor has amassed eminent poet Elizabeth Bishop found a man Greek chorus." He blazed through the useful fishinggear in pretty displays. kind of solace and truth in the animal three wives and two children. It rings of the contrived, like a poet who world. This poem was indeed a response "with used furniture/builds a tree," as to Bishop's "The Armadillo." It is the At the age of sixty, purportedly on fellow Confessional poet Anne Sexton put resolve after a night of self hell that makes his way back to wife number two aftera it. And also like poetry,there is no money this poem a foothold for survival. It's a stormy fight with wife number three in in the work. There is something very sad quiet, clear, night place where men and Ireland, his heart punched itself out and in the line "he'd rather marry'' - because skunks can talk to God. he died in a taxicab taking him from JFK we know he can't. to the Upper East Side. It was September. Jay Surdukowski adopted a skunk in late He clutched a picture of his second wife Other clamp traps of paranoia August and fed it whitejisil and Tw inkies hard to his chest as he died. abound in the poem: the "ill" season, fo r dinner. A reviewer of his collected works the ommous red fox stain on Blue Hill. • Res Gestae Needs Fresh Blood. We need writers, photographers and editors. And especially a web site maintenance guy. And an advertisment person. 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