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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

No lawyer jokes?

I recall a funny story which also should tell you something about the nature of the law. At least, around 1988.

I had an expert in Taxation for my Tax Law Course. One thing though, he had trouble talking for some reason.

His lectures were also often very hard to understand because he often used the language of Tax Attorneys and Accountants.

Anyway, one day Susan got the bright idea of asking the Tax Law Professor for some of his class notes and such so that perhaps we could have a better opportunity to understand Tax Law.

Susan seemed elated the next day to be handed 30 or so nicely typed, xeroxed, stapled handouts.

That was until we found out what these were.

They were all about the various properties of wood in wood piles, storage, dimensions, longevity, etc. At least, that is what I got.

My roommate or former roommate from Middlebrook Hall took pity on me and managed to snag a Law Review Outline of this man's Tax Law Course.

Which I had to contribute 50% to 75% in order to use in the Final and only Exam for this course. I was having a serious problem with the Computer Room Law Student (Class of 1989) Manager so I had to sneak onto the Legal Assistance to Minnesota Prisoner's Student Computer to do some of this.

The fellow law students got jealous when they saw me with this Law Review outline and of course accused me of cheating. I did write all over the Law Review Outline with my own work-- notes from this often obscure Tax Law Professor-- so I thought that would be enough.

So, I was busy working on the WESTLAW Project at that time in the Law Library.

Some of the Law Professors did not like me all that much but this Tax Law Professor was not one of them.

He "lost" my Final Exam for two years until I aced the Tax Section of the Minnesota Bar around 1990. I screwed up on the Contracts part though. So, I did not pass the Minnesota Bar. Law librarians are not supposed to get in lawyer-client relationships anyway. And law librarians often have to move a number of times from state-to-state while gaining library experience. I did take the MN Bar Exam twice though but missed the passing grade by a 251 out of 260. I did challenge it though because of problems I was having at the University of Minnesota Law Library in January 1991 and following. It had taken me a few years if I remember right to get that Tax Course grade. My transcript would just have a blank for that grade. I got a 12/16 which is a B so I was happy with it.

And, I did add 50- 75% to the Law Review Outline, I just had to write on whatever I had had time to print out from the Legal Assistance to Minnesota Prisoners computer.

A lot of the students knew about the problems with the Computer Room Manager (Class of 1989) as a woman in the First Year in my same Class of 1989 had dropped out because of something he had done. He had tried something similar with me when I was a tenant of him in a very bad part of Minneapolis when I did not own a car. But, I had not heard about what he had done to Debbie until he tried something similar to me in the Summer of 1988. And it was not something that rose to the level of a crime.

The Law Review Outlines for the various courses at that time could really improve your chances of getting a good grade but they were the property of the Law Review students who could give them to whomever they wanted as long as that person added his or her own work to the Outline for their own use. It was a lot easier f you had ready access to a computer which I did not have all that much because of my problems with the Computer Room Manager. So, I would just take the printout of the Law Review Tax Outline to this Professor's Class and write all over it as he talked and this was right in front of the Computer Room Manager who was also in that course.

Here's an obituary for the Tax Law Professor at the U of Minnesota. Ferdinand SCHOETTLE Obituary - New York, NY | New York Times

And more information about outlining-- Law School Outlines: It