Have You Looked Through His Briefs?

Confession: I can be a little immature.

Sometimes, when I'm sitting in class, I just can't help but giggle! I've only been in law school 8 weeks, but I've already got a list of legal words that, without fail, send my mind straight to the gutter!

Here are a few:

1. Chattel (Particularly anything thing that involves trespassing someone's chattel.)
2. Contractual relations
3. Dictum
4. Goods
5.  Tort (Oh, no, wait, that one just makes me hungry)

Can You See the Difference??

I'm honestly not trying to start a fight, I'm tired of fighting. I'm not simply hoping to get people riled up. I genuinely want to know your answer. Can you see the difference between these two photos? As a mother of four, I can't see any difference. Help me understand.

People Learn While They Sleep

Great idea. You guys all make sure you get a full 8 hours of sleep. I'll stay up and study all night. Let's see who ranks higher! :-)

Click here for Study that Suggest you "Learn While You Sleep." 

Sports and Entertainment Law Society

I like Sports. I like Entertainment. I like Laws. And I like Society. So, yeah, I threw my hat in the ring. I'm in the running to be your 1L Representative of the Sports and Entertainment Law Society. Vote for me!

Bach for the Brain

In an attempt to drown out all the TALKERS in the library, I am going to replace the sound of their voices with a little Bach for the Brain. This may be revolutionary, guys. Wow, I'm feeling smarter already...! :-)

LOLZ!

Why Should You Hire Me?

Reason Number #274: If there is ever a situation in which I will need to comprehend and apply very complex Federal Rules of Civil Procedure with a 3-foot-tall creature climbing in and out of my lap, trying to feed me gummy bears, and attempting to push its finger through the lens of my glasses, I will be very, very prepared. :-) 

THE CREATURE

 

Love and Marriage (and Torts)

My husband and I have over an hour long drive into Louisville every morning now that the 64-Bridge is closed. Since I have major anxiety when it comes to wasting time, I've started forcing Travis to listen to law lectures with me during the drive in. Today, we got to the Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress lecture in Torts. After the lecture, Travis said, "Wow, I just realized that this entire relationship you've been committing one big tort, IIED!" My response: "And I'm about to commit another, Battery." :-)

A Girl's Gotta Do What a Girl's Gotta Do!

You can imagine the looks I received while using my webcam to apply my make up in the Law Library. Hey, no reason a lady shouldn't strive for brains and beauty, right?! :-)

Law School Celebrates Repeal of DADT

While they're at it, will they also celebrate the thousands of sexual harassment cases that are sure to follow?

Click here for Event Details

The Undergraduate Library

I accidentally left my laptop at home today and was thus forced into the undergraduate library to use their computer lab. Eeks! I felt like I crossed over into another cosmos. The people there are so much more diverse. They laugh - a lot. They talk about things like sports, T.V., and music. And some of the books they were carrying around appeared to be less than 300 pages long...and were paperback! Talk about weird!


Ekstrom Library at University of Louisville (AKA the Undergrad Library)



My Favorite Quotes

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you respond to it. - Unknown 

Family is not who you are born with or into, but those that you choose to love and who choose to love you back. - Unknown

The Nation that makes a great distinction between scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.
-Thucydides

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.--Adam Smith 

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.- Pope John Paul II 

The more a man knows, the more he forgives--Confucius

God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love. --CS Lewis

Life, Liberty, and Property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.-- Frederick Bastiat

Suum Cuique (To each his own.) --Cicero

They constantly try to escape 
From the darkness outside and within 
By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good. --TS Eliot

Thus, and not otherwise, the world was made. Either something or nothing must depend on individual choices.--Perelandra

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen. --Martin Luther 

Any country that accepts abortion is the poorest of the poor - Mother Teresa

There is not a truth existing which I fear or would wish unknown to whole whole world --Thomas Jefferson

The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost.--CS Lewis

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.-
G. K. Chesterton

Always be as wise as a snake and as harmless as a dove. Matthew 10:16

All government has a governing will, and without a will that commands, there is no government.--Orestes Brownson

It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required. -Sir Winston Churchill

Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Freedom. 
--2 Corinthians 3:17

The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance.--CS Lewis

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle. 
--Tocqueville

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end. --Margaret Thatcher

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere. --G. K. Chesterton

Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. -Unknown 

It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.--Tacitus 

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God. --Thomas Aquinas

It Was the Day They Warned Us About

I sit down in Property class, pull out my textbook, and before I can even crack it open I hear, “Ms. Hancock, tell us what’s going on in Marini v. Ireland.”

               

          “Uhhh....”  Buying a few more seconds to compose a coherent answer, I ask him to repeat the question.  As he does so, I’m frantically flipping through the textbook pages. The situation is getting increasingly awkward, and I have to come up with an answer. I admit, “I’m sorry − give me one second, I’m just trying to find what page that case is on.”

                Professor Arnold interrupts my page-turning frenzy. “It’s on page 60, Chapter 4. The chapter listed in your syllabus to be discussed today” (although his tone is saying, “It is on page 60, you idiot. If you had been prepared, you would have known that”).

                I finally find the text about the case. In reality, only about 20 seconds has passed, but it feels like hours. As I reach into my binder to pull out my notes on the case, Professor Arnold, annoyed, interrupts my feverish search again.

                “Well, we will just move on to someone else,” he says bluntly.

                The moment he calls another student’s name, I find my notes and obnoxiously blurt out, “I’m ready now!”

                He just shoots me a look that says, Too late. You failed.

                Then, of course, the other student eloquently and accurately relays all the facts of Marini v. Ireland.

                I sink into my seat, defeated.

The upperclassmen had warned us that this day was coming, but no one can ever be prepared. The experience was humiliating and humbling, but most importantly, it was a wake-up call. I needed to study harder and be more prepared to avoid such public humiliation. Like most catastrophes, this type of epiphany is painful and crushing to the ego, but we learn from them; we get better, stronger, and smarter.

So now, having learned my lesson, my challenge to Professor Arnold for next week is this: Bring it!

Is Law School Making Us Better Looking?

Or is it just "Law School Goggles"? 

Formula:
-3 (Law School Constant. That’s right, just for being in law school you’re automatically less attractive. Wait, you didn’t know that? It’s in your schools 1L handbook).

+1 (Bonus for intellect. Being smart is an attractive feature, but not enough to overcome the damage you’ve done to your physical appearance merely by enrolling in law school)
-2 (Current financial situation. Money is always a factor and as you will learn, student loans don’t count as gross income and therefore regardless of your large loan check, you’re still poor).

_________________________

   =Real World Ranking

Law School's Dirty Little Secret

It’s not all about grades.


It’s about connections, introductions, networking, and having the presence of mind not to let your inability to test well keep you down.


(The rest of the story...)

A Law Student's Attempt at Romance

A contract is self-serving and comes with limited liability.  It establishes a time frame for certain deliverables to be met and accomplished.

A covenant, on the other hand, is for the benefit of others and comes with unlimited responsibility.  It has no expiration date.  It is “til death do us part.” A contract can be broken with mutual consent.  A covenant is intended to be unbreakable.

Happy Anniversary Travis Wesley Hancock!! So happy to be in this covenant with you!

Married September 6, 2009

Brown Machine v Hercules

If any of you guys are struggling through this contracts case, I have an awesome flow chart that I'd be MORE than happy to share with you. 

Just email me (MorganBHancock@gmail.com) and I will email you a copy back. I spent almost two hours trying to understand this case before going the flow chart route.

Learn from my mistakes, let me help you. 

Things That Excite a 1L: The Calendar

One of my absolute favorite ways to spend my time is planning how to spend my time. 


I have a monthly planner, a weekly planer, a daily planner, and an hourly planner; which all lay out specific times for me to eat, sleep, drive, study, attend church, relax, and of course, plan. 

THIS IS MY HAPPY PLACE...:-)

Top 1st Year Law Student Fashions for Men (AKA The Top Fashion Trends of Kids who are Broke but Trying Desperately to Look Rich)

1. The RayBan Wayfarer Sunglasses (even better if you wear them with a croakie and then wear the glasses backwards around your neck.)

2.       The Boat Shoe

3.       The Stitched Belt (The more nautical, the better. It gives the impression that you own a Yacht and spend all your free time hanging out on the high seas enjoy all your money!)

4.       The Bermuda short. (If it has a cuff: better; plaid: even better; seer sucker: the best!)

5.       Of course, no “I want to look like I come from money” look is complete without a Vineyard Vine tie.

Stay tuned, the Top 1L girls fashions are coming soon!  

Mandatory Study Groups and Workshops: Yea or Nay?

I have an extremely busy life (remember the whole 4-kids-thing…?). Thus, any free time I have in the day needs to be devoted purely to studying. I had hoped that coming to law school would mean I was finally considered mature enough to escape those strict attendance policies and mandatory “talk about your feelings” groups that I experienced in undergrad, but, apparently, not! 

At least once, often times twice, a week we are required to attend Academic Success Workshops and Structured Study Groups.

I have no issue with these groups and workshops being provided for those who WANT the extra help.  I do, however, have real issue with them being required for all. I am in professional school. I am enough of an adult to decide for myself if I want to be in a study group, workshop, or even come to class at all.

Any other 1Ls with me on this?!