Law School Doesn't Have to Suck
Opening Arguments
Opening Arguments Media LLC
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🗓️ 26 May 2024
⏱️ 73 minutes
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I am pleased to introduce you all to Heather Varanini! In her role as Director of Academic Achievement, Heather spends her days helping students succeed in law school and prepare for the Bar. She's onboard to serve as the Official Opening Arguments Bar Tutor and teach us a lot along the way! In this episode we'll hear more about her journey and the values that she brings to her work; for this week, we do a full Bar Question and Answer to give a sense of what we're in for with her! The traditional staggered Q&A will commence next time!
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, no associate this firm has ever failed the bar exam. |
| 0:04.4 | No kidding. |
| 0:05.4 | I just know that you were going to kick that bar's butt out of here you know you know You come in here with a skull full of mush, you leave thinking like a lawyer. |
| 0:27.0 | My staff has flunked the bar exam six times. |
| 0:37.0 | You graduated from law school six years ago. |
| 0:39.0 | What have you been doing since? |
| 0:40.0 | Studying for the bar. Welcome to opening arguments. |
| 0:45.0 | The podcast where a comedian takes lawyers to court. |
| 0:50.0 | Don't take ethics advice from Alan Dershowitz. |
| 0:54.0 | Hello and welcome to opening arguments. |
| 0:59.0 | I am Thomas Smith and got the special episode that I promised you the other day. |
| 1:05.2 | So here's what's going on. |
| 1:07.2 | Despite wanting more than anything to, |
| 1:11.1 | to like just offer you guys the structure that's so badly needed after all the |
| 1:16.2 | nonsense and the change-ups and all that. Believe you me I was entirely |
| 1:21.5 | intending to just make that final switch keep the structure that it used to be end of story |
| 1:27.2 | done count on it forever however in the effort to try to find ways to take workload off Matt so that we could be able to do all this stuff, be able to do gavel, gabble, and opening arguments, |
| 1:38.3 | Matt honestly barely has time to do away itself. |
| 1:41.2 | He's a busy guy. He's over there helping people plenty of cases, real life lawyer stuff. |
| 1:46.0 | So a while back Lydia and I heard about this website called Women Also Know Things and it's a really cool place where it was like hey why |
| 1:55.3 | is everyone always looking to men as the experts for you know interviews and |
| 1:59.0 | media appearances at all that and the minute I heard about it I was like well writing that down for whenever I am able to utilize it and sure enough through that |
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