Outside the registrar's office, if you're interested. As usual, I'm not going to post them. They'll be online in due course.

(My last semester of waiting only to be disappointed. It's one thing when you get an A and don't get one -- a handful of people get As every semester -- but you really get your hopes up when you get an A+. Yes, I know this will result in a huge pity party for me...)

Pity pity pity.

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Especially with Shatz. When I was a 1L a friend got the high score on his Crim Pro exam, but not the CALI. Another example (moot court as well) of how law school closely tracks the real world. Favoritism abounds.

I've noticed you're not much of a Shatz fan.

I wasn't suggesting I had it locked up. After all, profs can give out 2 A+s if they want. There's no reason to believe it wasn't maximized, and the other person got the nod.

I did learn a great deal of criminal law from him. I'm guessing his replacement will be much blander. I'm also not complaining about the way law school hands out awards.

When I was a 1L, I resented some of the more capricious characteristics of law school of the law school experience. I guess that was because I already knew that in the real world beyond a certain level, promotions can have less to do with job performance and more to do with the schmooze factor. In some areas it even makes sense; the best programmer is not always the best manager.

Hey, maybe where you work it may be a plausible meritocracy, but there are plenty of places that aren’t. I’m guessing that this is even truer in the legal field than at software companies. Because many of my younger colleagues have only known the ivory tower, its good for them to experience this lesson while it doesn’t really matter.

Just what I thought I was gleaning from a couple of comments over time.

Hey, maybe where you work it may be a plausible meritocracy, but there are plenty of places that aren’t. I’m guessing that this is even truer in the legal field than at software companies. Because many of my younger colleagues have only known the ivory tower, its good for them to experience this lesson while it doesn’t really matter.

No, I wouldn't say that about my workplace. Even in past places where they specifically set out to create a functioning meritocracy, it quickly fell apart.

I just never imagined schmoozing got people awards. In the case of this award, I saw 2/3 of the output (class participation/attendance and presentation) from the (presumably) 2 A+ students, and especially depending on paper quality, I could see it going the way it did.