Hello Students!

I hope you enjoyed today’s tour of the Manhattan courts, ESPECIALLY our experience at the US District Court for the Southern District of NY!  If you’d like to write a post about the experience, that would be fantastic!  You can earn two extra points on the upcoming midterm exam.  You’re welcome to write about anything at all: what you particularly enjoyed, or what you found especially interesting or surprising, or how the experience affected your view of the courts, or your career plans, or our visit to the African Burial Ground Monument, or anything else!  Just fyi, these are the names of the individuals we met: US Marshal Joe Zayas; Judge Debra Freeman (for whom I clerked), Judge Gabriel Gorenstein (presided over the proceeding), Lance Smith (defense counsel, City Tech Law & Paralegal Studies graduate), and Andrew Davis (Assistant U.S. Attorney, the prosecutor).  Choose “extra credit!” as the category for your post.

Don’t forget!  By end of today (Thurs. Sept. 30), please post your “Law in Culture review” source here on OL, see the assignment for required information.  For Tues. Oct. 5, for 1101 Intro, please read M&M ch. 2 pp. 38-43 (on BB) and write a post about a law office where you might like to work as described in this assignment.  For 1103 Civ Pro, please bring your copy of the CPLR and read C&W ch. 5 (on BB).

Enjoy the weekend, I look forward to seeing you in class Tuesday, Oct. 3, 10am!

Cheers,

Prof. C.