1L Poet


"I'll be posting about the law school experience, parenting, poetry, ethics, policy, and whatever else I feel like adding."

Author: A 1L and "also a mom with two young kids. I like to write poems, even though if you do scan mine, you'll understand them and thus, possibly, dislike them." She is based in Albany, N.Y.

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Recent Posts from 1L Poet


  • objective memo for a subjective girl

    Our objective memo is due on the 24th, and my second draft is done. I hate it but that doesn't mean it is bad. I just didn't realize legal writing took all the thoughfulness out…

  • suggestions please

    Now I have a project, inspired by The Resurrectionists and I will get on it, the day after finals, I swear (I hope). But who to pick on first? Which case is written with such…

  • out sick

    I didn't know you could get sick in law school but I went and did it. It gave me a surprisingly helpful perspective: the world did not crumble and fall away when I didn't pick…

  • lawyering midterm tomorrow. this is me not studying.

    Research midterm in Lawyering tomorrow! 35% of our grade! I'm seesawing between the calm assurance that I have studied the American Law Reports, Code of Federal Regulations, United States Code Annotated, United States Code Congressional…

  • Torts assignment: poem

    YAY. Instead of a torts problem this weekend I am given the too-good-to-be-true assignment of writing a poem about the development of the duty doctrine. Did I write about fault, and its attendant categories of…

  • The Changing of the Season

    The changing of the seasons begins with the smell in the air of dying apples soft on the groundand the sight of chianti-colored maple leaves and the memoryof two hours of reading a book last…

  • torts=math=uh oh

    Someone should have warned me. I'm a poet for crise sake. I understand metonymy. I understand metric feet. But one day, while I was minding my own poetry, I feverishly (as usual) scribble down notes…

  • civ pro feels like the biggest board game ever

    and my teacher's job is to explain the rules of the game. And they are endless, those rules. They go on and on. And the playmoney consists of spectacto-phrases like "haled to court" "traditional notions…

  • this and that

    poem: rapt attentionwhatever it was, it slips through your mind a silk scarf falling from the back of a chair to a hardwood floor.whatever it was, it was important, an arrow blinkedon your laptop screen…

  • law school is a marathon (and I have a study cramp)

    I keep reading that law school is a marathon, not a sprint. This sounded about right, so i assumed I was paying attention to the gist of it. Yet, here I am, in SEPTEMBER, with…