January 20th, 2007
someone tell me again why i’m doing moot court?
I am still procrastinating. OK, yeah, I have three pages written. Those three pages have no citations. They have really poor rule formation. They have some sound analysis, but analysis without authority is really no analysis at all.
But I have three pages. This tells me I can certainly churn out seven more in the next day and a half. What I might have more difficulty doing is churning out the peripheral parts of this silly brief–the factual summary, for instance–as well as the formatting parts, like the table of cases. (I hate creating a table of cases. Hate.)
I know I can get this thing done; I’m actually not worried about that. And it doesn’t have to be really super good–it’s just a threshold requirement and I only need to worry about being disqualified. I guess I just worry about what comes next. If I can’t get excited about it now, how can I get excited about it later, when I have to argue it?
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You do this because upon graduation you want to be appointed directly to the Supreme Court…duh
Use microsoft word to create a table of cases! It’s really easy it basically scans your document and creates it for you.
you are doing moot court because you will learn more practical professional skills than with law review alone. I did it for two years in law school, two in undergrad. So far it has been worth it, but then again I practice for a menial hourly wage. I did mock trial while in law school too. I find that the best breif writing happens 10 hours before deadline, but that doesn’t mean you should wait until then absent a huricane, tornado, computer crash (listed in order of badness from bad to worse).
I don’t know if you’re aware of it, but there’s a free download on Westlaw that automates creating a Table of Authorities, and has lots of other nifty features too, like automatic Keyciting.
All of those nifty Westlaw features only work if you have a PC, I think. Boo.