THE PATH TO LAWYER IS DIFFERENT AND I’M LOVING IT.

THE PATH TO LAWYER IS DIFFERENT AND I’M LOVING IT.

Full Caption Available on Kim’s instagram

Recently I just saw a post that Kim Kardashian passed the baby bar exam in California. She explained how her process is different than the traditional route which would normally include 3 years of law school after first obtaining a bachelor’s degree. 

Since Kim is a megastar with no college experience becoming a lawyer did not align with her current status.

Thankfully she wishes to practice in a state that allows an alternative route, which she explains how she has to take the “baby bar exam”, topics that typically involve first year law school subjects, then she has to take full blown California Bar Exam.

Which for those who don’t know the exam is known for its extreme difficulty. I mean make you want to pull your hair out type of hard!

Which makes Kim’s journey even more inspiring. We need people like Kim to become a lawyer. We need people like ME to become a lawyer. Why? Because me and Kim aren’t your typical law students.

Kim father may have been the famous Robert Kardashian but initially that did not predetermine her to be a lawyer.

Kim started out running with Paris Hilton, having the infamous tape, posing for KING magazine to becoming a billionaire icon. 

When the average person think of lawyer you may think of a bland person with no swagger, they just go to court all day and defend criminals. Everyone assumes you’re a criminal lawyer when they find out you have a career in law.

You think “they” want this guy to become a lawyer? Hell no! lmao!

But I’m going to show the world I'‘ll be a top lawyer like no other, changing my community ,and inspiring billions!!!

Anyways, they don’t think of a person like me becoming a lawyer. They don’t think of a black man from E.7Mile Detroit who also draw, rap, write books,blogs/vlogs, basically everything artistic under the sun to do something as cut and dry as law. 

But the law is complex and has many sides to its profession the same way a human being is typically not one dimensional.

Kim isn’t going to Harvard, becoming law review president, and landing summer associate positions.

No she is forging her own path through an organic passion for freeing the wrongly incarcerated. 

Photo courtesy of Entertainment Online.

Over the past few years she has lobbied for the freedom of several people, including Alice Marie Johnson who was granted clemency by President Trump. When Kim passes the California Bar Exam and become a licensed attorney I know it will inspire possibly millions of young ladies to become lawyers. Yes simply for the fact that Kim did it. Some people went to law school just because they saw legally blonde, influence is really that simple. See it Believe it.

When Kim becomes a licensed attorney she once again proves that the criticism and insults she had thrown her way do not define her in any shape or form. In fact, they refine her probably giving her more fuel and ammunition to prove to herself, the world, and even her father that the path she chose may not have been the one for everybody but it was definitely the right one for her!

Good Luck Kim.

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PLAIN LANGUAGE: THE BRIDGE BETWEEN LAWYERS AND NON-LEGAL PROFESSIONALS

PLAIN LANGUAGE: THE BRIDGE BETWEEN LAWYERS AND NON-LEGAL PROFESSIONALS

DISCLAIMER: THIS IS NOT LEGAL ADVICE IN ANY SHAPE OR FORM AND SHOULD NOT BE TAKEN AS SUCH.

The disconnect between legal professionals and non-legal professionals seem more distant now than ever. There’s clauses for clauses, words the average person would never understand, and a bunch of mumbo jumbo in between you may think to yourself, “screw it I’ll sign this let’s just get this over already”.

The Beginning of One of Kanye’s Many Music Contracts

However thinking back to Kanye’s tirade earlier this year about deceptive business practices in music contracts and even recently with Dave Chappelle’s situation with not wanting the Chappelle Show to be streamed anywhere(due to his lack of just compensation), maybe its just time to write contracts how we are actually speaking.

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CH-rR9znT3g/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link ( Dave Chappelle’s Unforgiven)

Thinking back to my drafting class in law school, our biggest assignment was to correct a lengthy contract and make it as plain/simple as possible. Let me be the first to tell you that was a real chore to do. If I had to see another “hereforth” “thereafter” or some other term we never say I was going to lose my wig. If I was feeling that as law student, with SOME understanding of the law, imagine a young guy/gal with NO LAWYER (or a very sleazy one) feel like.

Plain Language can operate as the much needed bridge between the legal world and those who operate outside of it. Legal Professionals think with a whole different brain than other people, some of the words I use with my non-legal friends, I know they say, “Harry what the heck are you talking about”. So Imagine an experienced Lawyer using their full arsenal of vocabulary in contract negotiations, it makes my head just thinking about it.

Even in my business practices, plain language has been at the core of my contracts, its as simple as “abc” and “xyz”. The question remains is why aren’t contracts reflecting plain language more often? Do Lawyers want to prove their extreme intelligence? Is it to hide deceptive practices in plain sight? Or is it a “this is how we’ve always done it” thing, so no one has the courage to break free from it?

Whatever the reason is, plain language need to be adapted, so each party can know exactly what is required from them in the deal and for absolute fairness to be ensured!

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RES IPSA LOQUITUR: our skin speak for ourselves.

RES IPSA LOQUITUR: our skin speak for ourselves.

“Our skin is evidence of crime” - Pastor Stephen Darby

I was listening to a message by the late great Pastor Stephen Darby when I heard the above quote. It made me think of a theory of law we learned in school, appropriately titled Res Ipsa Loquitur, which is latin for “the thing speak for it itself”.

It simply means one can infer a party was being negligent simply by a negligent act that occurred without actually proving the party’s negligence. 

For example, if a train came off of its tracks and killed a dozen people, it would more than likely be assumed as fact that this type of incident would not have occurred but-for someone’s negligence. In general, trains do not come off of their tracks without some superseding negligent cause. (Source: https://www.zavodnicklaw.com/blog/what-is-res-ipsa-loquitur-and-when-can-it-be-invoked/ )

In America, it is as if this theory of law is being used against the Black community itself. In America, our skin is being used against us  making it as though just because we have this darker skin it gives people the right to hurt us in more ways than imaginable.

Our skin is telling people we deserve to murdered, oppressed, shut out of opportunities, economically disabled, and a host of tragedies that can fill an entire book.

Racists isn’t giving black people the right to defend themselves. When they see blacks their mind infers an automatic wrong. Racists are often mislead by circumstantial evidence that leads to the wrong conclusions.

Oh he have a hood over his head and his pants are sagging he must be up to no good? How do you know the black man didn’t feel like showing his head because he doesn’t have his haircut and he mistakingly left his belt at home?

Oh she have her hair big chunky braids and not straight hair? Yeah she must be super ghetto. That black woman with the chunky braids could easily be a lawyer, doctor, or any other profession that is deemed prestigious.

What is it about skin color that make people think they could automatically assume the worst about someone? Even worst than assuming, what make people think they’re justified in taking violent actions against someone just because the color of their skin.

These are indeed turbulent times we are living in but unfortunately it isn’t nothing we haven’t seen before, I’m just the latest voice with an opinion on it. The question is, when will things ever change for the permanent good? Or will this be something we would have to fight for the rest of eternity?

America has a Duty. To protect its citizens and treat them equally no matter race or gender.

America has Breached that duty. Years of systemic oppression has shown this country isn’t on the side of right (at least its people in power isn’t).

America’s actions is indeed the Proximate Cause to black folk’s harm in this country. Years and years of police brutality, economic imbalance, prejudice, and much more makes the current revolt by black people entirely foreseeable by the country.

For my non-legal people what I just presented was the elements of Negligence. America has been negligent for far too long showing a blatant disregard for our race, no matter how much money you make or influence you have.

It shouldn’t be our skin that is “evidence of crime”, it should be the existence of the country itself that shows the greatest crime of all, the centuries of injustice against the people with darker skin.

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GUITAR RIFF

GUITAR RIFF

Let me start by say how much I love my internship. Man I love my internship. Anyways, working in a courthouse is starting to feel like I’m in the big game.

Slash rockin’ out

While I’m watching hearings and talking to Judges & Attorneys, it hit me that I finally got to the fun part, just like learning to play a guitar.

Anyone who has learned or has an interest to learn how to play the guitar, knows you can’t come out the gate riffing like Slash.

You have to learn notes, chords, how to read music, all the monotonous basics before you can solo Welcome to The Jungle at max power.

Just like in law school, you start with the most basic core classes and work your way up.

Now that I’m in my last term it feels as though I’ve finally “worked my way up”.

Now I get the incomparable experience of actually being in the courtroom and my basic foundations are assisting in that experience.

Seeing opening statements triggers my mock trial experience, writing memos for my judge leads me to recall my research & writing class, so on and so forth.

Life gets pretty amazing but only after a solid foundation has been built then you can go on to have the most epic solo of your life!

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I CAN HANDLE IT NOW BRO

I CAN HANDLE IT NOW BRO

Look at these black brothers striving for success!

My upcoming schedule for school seems like hell on paper. I have six classes and taking two of the hardest courses in law school history! Whoa!!! lmao.

My schedule would’ve gave first semester me the shakes. Now I feel like I can handle such a rigorous course load. Of course confidence in being able to adequately handle such a demanding course load comes with  experience.

Prior to my entry into law school, I never studied a day in my life. I didn’t know what studying was. I always say if I had my law school work ethic in high school and college, I would’ve had a 4.6 GPA. #NoCap

Entering school in 2017 gave me a super shock to my core. I knew it was material I couldn’t bs with unless I wanted to flunk out upon arrival.

Over time I learned and adjusted w/ new study strategies that helped me get better and better grades each term (after having a second semester slump).

Now being back on top in my studies I feel ready to take the new challenge of a rigorous course load. In other words, I can handle it now bro.

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