I am not a lawyer yet, but I am, apparently, a JD.
A degree or reasonable facsimile thereof.
Parents arriving as we speak; actual graduation tomorrow.
IANALY
Luis VillaRamblings on software, law, and the spaces in between.
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Congratulations! A wonderful achievement, and one that I know will be put to great use.
Congratulations!
Congrats!
Congratulations, Luis! Keep fighting the good fight…
Nicely done. And a diploma in Latin = pretty awesome.
Congratulations!
Well done, sir.
Congratulations! Hjärtliga gratulationer! Sydämmelliset onnentoivotukset!
(en, sv, fi, correspondingly)
Columbia law diplomas are actually in Latin? Talk about legacy code…
Regardless, congrats. Somehow you managed to write insightful blog posts while going through law school at the same time.
What bothers me is that the part where your name is mentioned is clearly in indirect discourse, governed by “sciatis”. But since your last name, at least, is a Latin word, it seems to me that it should have been put in the accusative (“Villam”).
And since the diploma is in Latin, shouldn’t your name have been spelled LVIS VILLA?
LUIS! YOU’VE GOTTEN SO LATIN!
Congratulations Luis!
Congratulations ;)
Congrats!
So, is law school worth it? I’ve thought about going as well.
Congratulations my friend. Not that there was really any doubt
Congratulations!
congrats
Well done!
Congratulations, sir.
Nice job!
You’re lucky they didn’t stylize your name as “LVIS”. Because then we’d have to start calling you Elvis :)
Woohoo!! Go VILLA!!! Congratulations, my man! We are proud of you. :-)
sri
Hm. I think you’re too old to be a juvenile delinquent…
(Congratulations!)
Bravo !
Bravo, félicitations !
Thanks, everyone!
Thomas, I will post a retrospective on law school some time in the next few weeks, when I have time to settle down and consider it. Nutshell answer to your question of ‘is it worth it’ is ‘it depends; it was for me but I am lucky enough to be in a very, very unusual situation- for many (most?) people I would not recommend it.’
No new fangled u’s and j’s or spaces between the words. No, dots were good enough then and they are good enough now.