{"id":6350,"date":"2003-09-10T11:29:58","date_gmt":"2003-09-10T15:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2003\/09\/10\/jd-in-absentia-2\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T15:00:40","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T19:00:40","slug":"jd-in-absentia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2003\/09\/10\/jd-in-absentia-2\/","title":{"rendered":"J.D. in Absentia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a258'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">Startng today, <EM><A href=\"http:\/\/www.nylawyer.com\/brush\/\">New York Lawyer<\/A><\/EM> is syndicating a book&nbsp;by two lawyers who claim they attended virtually no classes (at Harvard and Stanford), led wild lifestyles instead, and each graduated in 1998 to jobs in top firms.&nbsp;&nbsp; As <EM>NYL<\/EM> puts it:<\/DIV><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P>&#8220;In their book <I>Brush With the Law: The Turbulent True Story of Law School Today at Stanford and Harvard<\/I>, co-authors and practicing attorneys Jamie Marquart and Robert Byrnes explain how they mastered getting a J.D. in absentia.&#8221;<\/FONT><\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">Over the years, I have&nbsp;often said I would have been a far better person, and not any less of a law student, if I had slept in rather than attending classes.&nbsp; (Those 8 AM Antitrust classes with Prof. Breyer were especially painful.)&nbsp;&nbsp; It irked me that I was too conventional or worried to stop wasting my time on classes that seemed pointless for anyone willing to do the reading assignments.&nbsp; It never even crossed my mind to head for casinos and bordellos instead (maybe because of my limited budget).&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">From an ethical perspective, missing out on law school classes seems to have virtually no relationship to future competence &#8212; although it might suggest a certain lack of diligence.&nbsp;&nbsp; On the other hand, these guys probably aren&#8217;t billing&nbsp;clients for unnecessary tasks.&nbsp;&nbsp;You can check out the serial installments every Wednesday.<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Startng today, New York Lawyer is syndicating a book&nbsp;by two lawyers who claim they attended virtually no classes (at Harvard and Stanford), led wild lifestyles instead, and each graduated in 1998 to jobs in top firms.&nbsp;&nbsp; As NYL puts it: &#8220;In their book Brush With the Law: The Turbulent True Story of Law School Today [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-1Eq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14142,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6350\/revisions\/14142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}