To Orin's point about law school applications - my sister, a 36 year old mother of four, had been working towards getting her law school applications in pre-Covid. She ended up taking the GRE a bit late and missing the deadline for a September 2020 start. Now, one of the schools that had told her she was a lock for a merit scholarship go…
To Orin's point about law school applications - my sister, a 36 year old mother of four, had been working towards getting her law school applications in pre-Covid. She ended up taking the GRE a bit late and missing the deadline for a September 2020 start. Now, one of the schools that had told her she was a lock for a merit scholarship going into the 2021 application year has been so flooded with applications that they had to waitlist her. And former students of my HS IP elective class are reporting the same with respect to their law school applications.
Wow — I'm sorry to hear about your sister's situation, Gaston — but yes, the effect of the pandemic on law school applications (and legal education more generally) is definitely a significant subject. Thanks for this idea!
I would also be interested to hear from fellow practitioners how their interactions with colleagues, clients, and opposing counsel have gone during the pandemic. I admit that I still get a little uneasy interacting directly with opposing outside counsel over video. But interacting with opposing in-house counsel (e.g. in a patent licensing discussion where I represent the patent owner and the target is handling the negotiation in-house) over Zoom/Teams etc... has been a joy and helped get deals done, if only because the medium lends itself to less guarded discussion.
To Orin's point about law school applications - my sister, a 36 year old mother of four, had been working towards getting her law school applications in pre-Covid. She ended up taking the GRE a bit late and missing the deadline for a September 2020 start. Now, one of the schools that had told her she was a lock for a merit scholarship going into the 2021 application year has been so flooded with applications that they had to waitlist her. And former students of my HS IP elective class are reporting the same with respect to their law school applications.
Wow — I'm sorry to hear about your sister's situation, Gaston — but yes, the effect of the pandemic on law school applications (and legal education more generally) is definitely a significant subject. Thanks for this idea!
I would also be interested to hear from fellow practitioners how their interactions with colleagues, clients, and opposing counsel have gone during the pandemic. I admit that I still get a little uneasy interacting directly with opposing outside counsel over video. But interacting with opposing in-house counsel (e.g. in a patent licensing discussion where I represent the patent owner and the target is handling the negotiation in-house) over Zoom/Teams etc... has been a joy and helped get deals done, if only because the medium lends itself to less guarded discussion.
Very interesting — and I wouldn't have expected that! This unusual period has been full of surprises (some bad, but some good).