Ep. 289: Agree to Disagree with Actual Lawyer Nikki Black
Thinking LSAT
Nathan Fox and Ben Olson
4.8 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2021
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Many lawyers-to-be have their eyes on the good stuff. They want to do the world-saving, altruistic work that will make communities stronger and peoples’ lives better. And immigration law is a popular focus for these folks who want to help asylees and other groups. But what is immigration law really like? Nathan and Ben sit down with immigration attorney, Nicole Black, to talk about the realities of immigration law. They discuss what cases generally look like, what happens when cases get lost, and what the day-to-day practice is like for an immigration attorney. Plus, the guys chomp thru another LR question from PT 65, they weigh some advice from Reddit and answer a bunch of listener mail. Read more on our website!
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:02.6 | One definition of explicit language is stated clearly and in detail, |
| 0:06.8 | leaving no room for confusion or doubt. That's why we use those words. The words. Hello and welcome to episode 289 of the Thinking El-Sat Podcast. |
| 0:17.0 | Boy, we got a good one today. of the thinking El-Sat podcast. |
| 0:23.0 | Boy, we got a good one today, huh, Ben. |
| 0:26.0 | Yeah, we covered a lot of stuff. |
| 0:27.0 | We started with a parallel flaw question in logical reasoning and went over the else that's number one flaw. |
| 0:37.2 | Yep, confusing sufficient for necessary. We're going to talk about it yet again because |
| 0:41.1 | it appears on literally every law school admission test. |
| 0:45.0 | Hopefully you will master that flaw because you're just going to get buckets of |
| 0:49.9 | free points that you're not currently getting if you really understand the difference between sufficient and necessary. |
| 0:55.0 | Highlight of the show for me, Ben was actual lawyer, Nicole Black, one of my best friends, |
| 1:01.0 | really the only person that I'm still in close contact with from law school. |
| 1:05.6 | Yeah, but she's a gaming buddy of mind, she's a previous guest on the show, she's an |
| 1:09.8 | immigration lawyer in Los Angeles, she's really kind of a bawler. I hope people enjoy that interview with |
| 1:17.8 | Nicky. Yeah, that was great. Super insightful into the work she does. Yeah, she's a killer man. |
| 1:24.0 | What else do we talk about? |
| 1:25.0 | Yeah, we talked about someone who's said that your brain should hurt when you take the |
| 1:30.4 | El-Sat. |
| 1:31.4 | We said, no. someone who got a 176 and is wondering whether they should |
| 1:37.4 | retake it or if that looks bad. We also heard from someone who fell off the study wagon and wants to know what to do. |
| 1:44.8 | Excellent. I thought we had lots of good tidbits and well I guess we could just dive right in. |
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