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33 Pick-up Lines from Digesting Cases

My Favorite Movies (Law Related)

Legally Blonde

When a blonde sorority queen is dumped by her boyfriend, she decides to follow him to law school to get him back and, once there, learns she has more legal savvy than she ever imagined.

Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde

Reese Witherspoon is back as Elle Woods in Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde. Now Elle is juggling a demanding career as a rising young lawyer as well as preparations for her wedding to the man of her dreams. But when she stands up for the rights of the other guy in her life - Bruiser, her chihuahua - Elle is fired from her job. She's devastated, but you can't keep an optimist down. Ms. Woods goes to Washington to take matters into her own well-manicured hands. Trying to learn the political ropes and win over self-serving politicians, Elle faces a formidable challenge. But with her clever and sassy signature blend of determination and intelligence, she bucks the system the Elle Woods way, inspiring those around her to find a voice of their own.

Of All The Things
This is a story involving Emil (Aga Muhlach), an intellectual going through a tough time and Berna (Regine Velasquez), an overly ambitious woman who finds herself in trouble. 

After failing his bar exam, would-be lawyer Emil’s life goes downhill. His “private law practice” is really just a service as a notary public and affidavits. He gains the nickname “Umboy” because his office is literally under a multicolored umbrella.

Meanwhile upscale Makati is Berna’s game. Her ‘transactions’ often happen in different offices and hotel lobbies. Her exact job description is vague but she is great at networking and has amassed a number of contacts. It is from hooking up these contacts that she earns her commissions. 

But a sour transaction lands Berns in hot water. She needs to find herself a fake lawyer fast! And this is how Umboy meets Berns! 

What will happen between these two disparate personalities? If friendship seems so unlikely, what chance do they have at falling in love? Find out in this new romantic comedy! 

Bar Operations 2009

It's been a long time since my last post in this blawg. Me and my classmates (third year students) have been very busy preparing for the Bar Operations activity for the four sundays of September this year.

What is Bar Operations?

The Bar Operations is an activity of the College of Law students done every year to give support to and boost the morale of barristers or law graduates who will be taking the Bar Examinations every Sunday of September.

In our University (University of Pangasinan) The Third Year College of Law students are in charge of hosting the Bar Operations. In line with this, we will be reproducing Bar Materials for the examinees and we will be sending representatives during the examination day for moral support and assistance.

In aid of this noble cause, different committees are formed assigned with certain tasks in aim of giving benevolent support to the bar examinees. One of the major assistance given to the examinees are the bar tips and updates, which refers to the possible questions and topics that will be asked during the examination. This bar tips are made exclusive for the bar examinees graduates of the university. =/

An Encounter with A Fellow

This night, while I am heading to Bon Angelo Cyberzone after coming from my wednesday class (Property), a group of student called me “Ma’am Lamsen, Ma’am Lamsen.” I turned and saw PSU students, 2 of them familiar and turned out to be scholar grantees under my boss’ scholarship program. We did some chit chat and bid goodbye. As I walk away from them, I smile which I still wear up to this time of typing this entry. I just thought that those students call me “madam” or “ma’am” when in fact, I, too, is a student. I couldn’t expound what I feel and realize at this moment. I just hope that this evening, I was able to inspire others.

I’M SO STRESSED OUT!

I received a message from a special someone inviting me to become his resident article blogger writer (wachamacallit) in a blogsite he have just created and without a second thought, I accepted the invitation.

Writing my first article, however, gave me a hard time more than I expected. First, because, I am into a rush of things—completing lists at work, researching, reading, reviewing and writing case digests. Second, my hand is already black and blue due to the first cause. Lastly, my mind is polluted with stress brought by my busy life. Then from there, I created the title.

We all experience stress. Today’s rapidly paced society and complex environment creates stress for many of us. Air and noise pollution, traffic congestion, crime, excessive workload, name all those factors that constantly pressured you to accomplish more and more in less and less time. Then add foreseeable or unexpected events that comes into our attention—death, getting stuck in a traffic, disaster, calamity, losing your wallet, recitation, quiz and exams! All of these cause stress.

Stress is a feeling created in reaction to particular events. It is the body’s way of mounting to a challenge and preparing to meet a tough situation with focus, strength, stamina, and heightened alertness.

However, people’s reactions to stress differ widely: some develop serious psychological or physical problems and others may find themselves in a challenging and interesting situation or environment. Let me quote at this point a text message forwarded to me by a friend. It says, “When it rains, all the birds fly for shelter but the eagle alone avoids the rain by flying above the clouds. Problems are common to all but attitude makes the difference.” I really don’t know if the bird scenario is a factual statement but the essence of the quote matters to me.

The invitation I responded to made me realize that I am one of the others and not one of the some. Nonetheless, I am also like the birds that fly for shelter when it rains and not like the eagle that will fly above the clouds.

I, being the social stratification theory advocate, have always view every event and everyday happenings as part of my providence. No matter how stressful an event is, I always see it as a challenge to test my capabilities and limits. I believe that change might be a conflict yet it is normal and always should be an opportunity for growth rather than a threat to security. I have personally observed that stress is easier to tolerate when its cause is shared by others. In our Land, Title and Deeds class, we were given more than 50 cases to digest for four Thursdays. Individual anxiety (which is obvious with most of my classmates) tend to be forgotten when the cases are divided into working teams. Companionship (of friends), then, distract us (UPang 2nd year Law Students ’08-’09) from our worries. Other people like family and special someones bolster self-esteem by providing support financially, morally and spiritually.

Hence, like the birds that fly for shelter, I know that I am a being with limited capabilities; that rather than being alone flying above the white cottony mass of air and water, being with other creatures like me in a strong branch of tree is a time for me to enjoy being still; and that the rain is a signal for me to stop to rest, for me to be able to cope and fight stress again.

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The writer stopped after writing 12 case digests out of 56 cases in one of her law subjects to write this article. She still need to study and review in the evening for a recitation after working in a legislative district office the next day. Aside from the 56 cases she is digesting, she also needs to digest more than 50 cases more all in all in her other law subjects.

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NOTE: Originally published in Praetorian '03, August 20, 2008. Written on August 18, 2008 at 7:20 PM

A Working Law Student

I am a law student. Contrary to what other people thinks about law students—intelligent and rich, I am an average learner and belonged in a middle class family. My books except on Commercial Laws are borrowed from a close friend, photocopied and bounded. I am also at the same time, working. I work for a law maker and is in-charge of whatever may be delegated to me but my main job concerns youth affair programs consultation and implementation.

That is the consequence of being above the poverty line yet short of belonging to an elite society. I need to work to support my studies aside from the fact that I need to support, as well, my 2^nd year Civil Engineering student brother by sharing with him 25% of what I earn and give at least 10% also to my mother for household daily expenses.

Class usually starts at 5:30 in the afternoon. Before the clock ticks 4, an hour before that, I have to make sure that I have at least completed 75% of the task I should finish that day because I have to give myself time to review the lessons to be discussed later. But most of the time, when I am in the office, I dig myself to work and ends up finding myself reading inside the bus on my way to school.

Studying law is no joke. You have to read bundle of cases which also follows that you are required to digest. Sometimes, more than 10-20 cases are assigned by the judge or lawyer-instructors as reading materials which you are required to recite in class the following meeting and if you are “luckily called”, you will be standing citing the facts, the issues and the ruling of the cases for an hour or two.

To study law entails having sleepless nights, big eyebags, and noticeable pimples. To study law is to understand the provisions and not just to memorize them. It entails laborious study evidenced by practitioners themselves who still study their law even they already surpass the Four Sundays of September (I am referring to the Bar Examinations held annually in the Philippines). They say that it is really important to study and stay updated because every lawyer’s task is to master the law for them to be able to competently assist their clients in the hall of justice.

After sitting of standing in class for more than an hour, I go home and usually arrives 9:30 in the evening. I will eat, take a rest, watch my primetime favorites then study afterwards before going to bed.

That is the reason why I love to describe myself in a web profile in this sentence: Sometimes, I do what I want to do. The rest of the time, I do what I have to.

With those aforementioned facts, most people will think of me having a boring life. All is routineary. But I will contest! My life is in fact, exciting!

I have been working since I was 19. At such an early age, I have worked with officers in the highest rank. I got to shake hands with the President, the Vice-President, the former Speaker of the House and local officials in the Province of Pangasinan. I get to interact with those people from different walks of life almost everyday. After more than 2 years or after being an employee of the province, new work experience was offered. Almost the same nature yet I have in my shoulders responsibilities. Responsibilities are challenges. And it is what keeps me going.

To add to these, one may wonder if I’m still having fun. I mean, fun shared with friend and/or with a special someone. Of course I do! I have a boyfriend and I have lots and lots of friends. After all, love is what weaves these roles together and makes the real me--a plain and simple working law student.