Week #10 was the last week of summer school, aka, finals! I spent the beginning of the week studying, mostly at the Walter library. After my last final I went to work, and worked 10 hour days for the next 4 days.
I also decided to get health conscious, and just say no to Caribou pastries. That’s also the week I almost ran Jill off the road, and celebrated the end of my first year in Minnesota.
After trolling around libraries for a week, I finally finished summer semester.
And last night, around midnight, I got a little tab-happy:
Today in Wills & Trusts, we are discussing the class schedule for the rest of the semester when Professor W stops and looks at Jack:
Professor W: “Don’t bite your fingers. I can’t watch that! You can go outside and munch all you want!”
The class engages in a collective gasp. Jack throws his hand down and flushes. Giggling ensues.
Today in my Wills & Trusts class:
Professor W: “So this widow gets $810,000. Is that enough to raise two kids?”
Jill: “Of course!”
Professor W: “Really? They have to grow up, be fed, go to school, go to college…”
Jill: “Shop at Wal-Mart and send them to public school, they’ll be just fine.”
I’ve said this before, but the hilarity is in the footnotes.
Today’s case is from my Wills & Trusts class: Succession of Bacot aka, “the gay will contest.”
There’s a noteworthy discussion at the end of whether a man can be a concubine of another man. “A concubine is as essential to a state of concubinage as a ghost is to Hamlet.”
Fact section after the jump.
In professional responsibility, Professor R and Jack discussed what constitutes legal advice, who can give it, and when it leads to liability:
Jack: “What about jailhouse lawyers?”
Professor R: “Hm…Well they are already in jail, so what the hell?”
In Wills & Trusts we reviewed some of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct:
Professor W: “Well, these are just about as useful to a lawyer practicing in the field as a valentine would be to a surgeon who is operating in the operation room…”