I Don't Want to Read Jurisdiction

Since I'm trying to avoid doing my class reading and I finally have a little free time after a very hectic week and a half, I thought it would be a good time to post. Updates on life:

* Successfully visited Nashville, Indianapolis, Plymouth and Ann Arbor & got both Jennifer and my things moved in.

* OCI week came & went, which was a whole lot more stressful than I thought it would be. 20 interviews over the course of 4 days is very tiring. Still, I think it went well overall. A number of firms are still deciding on who they're going to offer callbacks to, so for now I'm still waiting to see how the whole thing went.

* MLR orientation ended yesterday. I'm still really looking forward to working on a journal, but the 3L's certainly weren't kidding when they said it was a major time commitment: 5-10 hour weekly assignments + writing a publishable note this year + committee work + administrative duties (though I'm told that's only a couple of times a semester) on top of my regular class work and Campbell (which I'm separately really excited about) means this year will be keeping me busy.

* I'm getting particularly excited about researching & writing my note topic. For anyone who might be interested, I'm planning to write on whether a district court has the authority (and if it does, whether it should ever exercise that authority) to compel the attendance of a corporate defendant at an 11(b) plea colloquy even though Fed. R. Crim. Pro. 43 says that organizational defendants "need not be present" at any hearing or trial if represented by counsel. OK, it sounds esoteric and boring, but I think a lot of the discussion will revolve around the justifications of prosecuting corporations and whether the reasons why we choose to do that tells us anything about how corporations should plead guilty to crimes. White collar crime is kind of cool, right?

I think that touches all the highlights. Time to get back to that reading.

Almost Time to Move Again

In less than a week I'll be heading back up to Michigan via Nashville (Jennifer has assured me I'm not going to turn into slack-jawed yokel by stepping foot in The South) to start my second year of law school. That of course means that the next few days will inevitably be filled with my procrastinating, followed by panic that I'm actually going to have to leave DC and somehow get all of my things back to Ann Arbor. That, coupled with the substantial amount of preparation needed for OCI, means fun times for me. Before classes actually start, I also have the week of on-campus interviewing and then another week of journal orientation. Life will probably be busy over the next month or so.

Other than that, very little is new. I'm finishing up work at the DoJ, so it's been pretty slow in the office. Tonight it's out with friends to spend our winnings from trivia, a $50 gift certificate to a bar. Other than that...nothing. Let's be honest: I'm pretty much posting for the sake of posting. But at least I've got something new on the blog.