Law School
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Surviving Law School Competitiveness
When I first started law school I was very scared about the competition regarding grades. I was never the type A, perfectionist student so I was even more worried about being around those types of people. I had read the books and heard stories about what law school was like (i.e. mean and cut-throat), but didn’t know if that was still realistic. I went in holding my breath hoping it wouldn’t be so bad. Thankfully, the majority of my time was chill, until around the time the semesters were ending when everyone realized they had competitions to prepare for, papers to write, jobs to apply for, and exams to ace. It…
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Finding Affordable Suits for Interviews
One thing I didn’t realize before I first started law school was how much I would have to spend on suits. I mean, I knew business attire was necessary, but I didn’t know just how expensive they actually were. I had to do a lot of digging and searching for something appropriate, professional, and still very affordable because I didn’t have extra money for department store suits. If you are preparing for OCI, I’m sure you’re in the midst of finalizing all the details, including what to wear. For those done with OCI, how did you offset the cost of buying suits for interviews or competitions? For those about to…
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Ending a Bad Internship
A lot of advice exists on how to start off an internship strong (which is very useful), but not enough advice exists on how to cross the finish line as a model student intern. I’ve had students that don’t “get” the mission regarding poverty law. They didn’t realize not all lawyers are in court every day of the week; or they realize that it’s not as prestigious as they would like; or they realize that this just isn’t the area of law in which they want to practice. Those are all fair realizations. But what is unacceptable, is when students decide that they won’t try to meet the minimum standard,…
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The Mission Statement
Latinas Uprising was born from the frustration of visiting mainstream internet communities that discussed being a lawyer or a women professional or even a female lawyer, but never seemed to take into account the experiences we have as Latinas. We often hear that women make around 70 cents to the man’s dollar, but that’s actually the statistic for white women. Latinas make 55 cents to the man’s dollar. That type of disparity will create an entirely different experience that is just not being discussed in mainstream communities. Why aren’t we included? We consist of the largest growing minority group in the U.S. and are a huge consumer group. We are…