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recess

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A quick definition of recess:

Term: Recess

Definition: Recess is a break during a trial or a meeting where everyone stops what they are doing and takes a break until a certain time. It's like taking a break during school or playing outside during recess time. It's not the same as ending the trial or meeting, which is called adjournment. Even the government takes recesses between their meetings! During these breaks, important decisions can be made, like filling in empty jobs until the next meeting.

A more thorough explanation:

Recess is a break in a trial, legislative session, or other legal proceedings until a specific date and time. It is different from adjournment, which ends the proceedings.

During the trial of Gonzalez v. Douglas, the court announced, "we will stand at recess until 1:30," and the recess lasted from 11:57 a.m. to 1:32 p.m. This means that the trial was temporarily paused and would resume at a specific time.

In the legislative context, the U.S. Constitution allows for recesses between sessions. For instance, if a vacancy occurs in the Senate during the legislature's recess, the executive can make temporary appointments until the next meeting of the legislature, which will then fill the vacancies.

Another example is when the President has the power to fill up all vacancies that may happen during the Senate's recess by granting commissions that will expire at the end of their next session.

These examples illustrate that recess is a temporary break in legal proceedings or legislative sessions that allows for a pause in the action and a specific time for resuming the proceedings.

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@RFelixFinch: you’ll get into baylor. All good.
22:19
My C&F is actual crimes, so I'm not relaxing until someone says yes haha
22:20
But I'm also aware that most schools aren't even reading yet
22:21
Man that sucks. Society is really sick.
Holy fuck the massive increase in applicants this cycle is stressing me out
22:32
@texaslawhopefully: SAME
It is ridiculous. Spivey at least says it'll come down to 10-15 percent up, but that doesn't make me feel any better.
22:35
I truly believe 90% of applicants apply for the wrong reasons and subsequently : do not go, or do not practice after a few years
22:35
and that is coming from a 155
22:37
Statistically if higher end law schools begin to have no variation in the data of their applicants, then the test itself just becomes insignificant and another to factor needs to be used to determine what makes a candidate a good candidate. I'ma call it at this point, the rest is absolutely retarded and useless at this time. At least anything above a 160 probably.
22:40
many reasons but yes the top schools are maxxing the threshold so that the measuring device (LSAT) is becoming less useful
22:42
@Dkkm11: Part of my strategy with my personal statement being about my time as a professional wrestler, and the fact that my essays have a VERY casual human tone is an attempt to differentiate against these high stat folks
22:43
Yeah, softs are just becoming more and more important.
22:54
Now time to find out what tier soft "Crime" is 🤣
22:56
Honestly man, a lot of attorneys think a lot like criminals which is why they are so good at this shit. I would see having a criminal record as potentially a positive soft. I personally have had 9 traffic violations in my life but I won every single one. Not every one of those was a moving violation though.
22:56
Some of the best attorneys i worked for would stretch the rules on a regular basis within our little office environment. If you go to bars and you talk to USC/UCLA attorneys, a lot of em are degenrate drug addicsts.
22:57
You go to wolfsglen and talk to the head bartender there who is a gay guy, he runs a high end sex dungeon at his house and a lot of his clients are attorneys from UCLA's law school.
23:02
By the way, creeped your profile. Have you tried Applying to McGeorge? It's in my hometown and it may not be highly ranked and is obviously VERY Regional...but that region is the Capital of California
23:10
Nah sorry, I just dont wanna go there. If I cant at least get top 50 then I probably wont go to law school.
23:11
I would rather just keep being a paralegal at that point.
23:14
I do agree, for local politics it can be really great but I dont wanna be a california republican.
@Dkkm11: Yeah, it does seem like softs are becoming more important. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it does suck in the sense that I think it just is a lot harder to figure out how you'll do based on softs since they're so much less black and white than pure stats.
23:18
Idk, depends on the soft. I have said before that I think everyone should at least be a a paralegal or clerk or something like that before applying. If you have done that, I really dont see you failing out of law school unless you are just so unbelievably lazy. Maybe if they made another LSAT that tested other skills to go with the LSAT, then I would agree but with just one test to draw stats from, idk about that.
23:19
Maybe GRE & LSAT candidates should be taken more seriously.
23:19
@Dkkm11: You seem to have a VERY solid understanding if McGeorge 🤣. Honestly I don't even have it on my Super Safety list...if I have to go low, I'm going with HOFSTRA only because they have a JD dual degree with a Master's in Forensic Linguistics...and that's only because the Linguistics Program is probably the best in the country for Forensic Linguistics, it's not attached to a high quality school though
@Dkkm11: Yeah, that is fair, but even then, for instance, I've done paralegal work as an undergrad and it is hard to quantify how much that matters. I think the only softs that are for sure game changing are like Rhodes, Marshall, Truman, etc.
I mean looking at law school numbers for HLS, from say 10 years ago, it is insane how stats driven it was compared to how black box it seems to be now.
23:29
Fair points from both of you!
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