There’s no better way to learn than hands-on
experience, and hopefully that’s especially true
for one law student who wasn’t doing so hot
in the classroom. Jackson Milkman, who is currently in his third
year at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, is
reportedly suing the school after school
officials told him he must retake a course in
order to complete his law degree program.
Ironically, area of study he failed is Civil Procedure, the course that teaches people
how to file lawsuits. As Above the Law reports, “After a generally
successful second year, Millikan was told he
had to retake Civil Procedure II. Millikan then
went to his summer job. Having heard nothing
more on the subject of ‘you have to pass Civil
Procedure,’ he returned to school.” He took this to mean something entirely
different than what we might take it to mean… He decided school officials had decided he
didn’t need to take the course after all.
Passing off his responsibility to follow up on
something important, then deciding to sue
when he’s wrong? This guy is as American is a
bacon double cheeseburger. The man thought the best course of action
would be to write a 60-page complaint
against the school seeking relief. For those
who don’t know much about filing paperwork
in court, that’s to say that this guy may as well
rewritten the legal equivalent of James Joyce’sUlysses. Then again, this guy doesn’t appear to be a
master of making great decisions. Thomas
Jefferson School of Law is a second-tier
school, also known in the legal community as
“barely a law school.” With extremely low job
placement numbers and high tuition, it seems this student has much more to worry about
than having to retake a single course, like, say,
whether he prefers to spend the next decade
eating Ramen Noodles or Campbell’s Soup. Fortunately, if law doesn’t work out for this
guy, then at least there are always other career
options. There’s still hope for him to leave the
legal profession to become a truTV blogger,
just like yours truly.
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