Gens Una Sumus
I still haven’t posted anything about my trip to Iceland, during which I played chess with drunken sailors and got a private tour of the Supreme Court of Iceland.
Anyway, I’m going to Israel from 3/18 to 3/28. If you feel the urge to call me, you can reach me at +44 7924009540.
Of course you could always just email me, but that would be less fun.
I am on Twitter: scottc229. I’ll probably be making my posts publicly viewable in the near future.
In the meantime, before I post anything, I should start using del.icio.us more often, and enable openID comments on this blog.
A while ago I found myself reading over some of my old posts. I’ve deleted two of them, and while I suppose that the old versions are retrievable on the Internet Archive, I took them down anyway. I took down one of them because it was a project I didn’t follow through on, and the other because it was a poor attempt at humor that bordered on offensive.
Many of my posts, one of the deleted ones included, are rife with bad spelling, and plain old sloppiness. I apologize for that. Hopefully that will improve, but I doubt I’ll be able to tell until I wait a few years and look again.
Last summer I worked for a great firm in New York, and got an offer from them to work after graduation. I was hoping to defer that offer for a clerkship in a federal district court, but from 35 applications I got 3 interviews (all in South Florida) and no offers.
Some of the districts I applied to, especially the one I would have most liked to clerk in (Puerto Rico), have a handful of judges who hire later in the calendar, so I remained hopeful for a while that I might still get a clerkship. Just before New Year’s, however, I decided it was pretty safe to assume I will be returning to my firm soon after taking the bar exam this year.
It’s a great firm, and I look forward to joining it as a first-year associate in September. My personal instinct is not to mention the name of the firm on this blog for one reason: the views expressed and statements made by me on this blog are my own in my personal capacity, and not those of any employer past or future. Putting the name of the firm on this blog would not change this fact, but to avoid any possibility of confusion I’m going to leave it out.
On a related note, if anybody knows of a good place to rent an apartment in Manhattan, drop me a line!