[blindlaw] Bluebook

[Derek Manners]

Great minds think alike.  

Best regards
Derek Manners

Sent from my iPhone

> On Jul 21, 2015, at 8:55 AM, Laura Wolk <laura.wolk at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Derek, agreed. you beat me too it--I was about to send the exact same link.
> 
> 
> 
>> On 7/21/15, Derek Manners via blindlaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> Hey Chris, I'd actually disagree with your philosophical view. Here's why.
>> Sometimes it is truly more efficient and therefore independent for different
>> folks to do things different ways.
>> 
>> I'd encourage you to read this if you haven't already.
>> 
>> https://nfb.org/images/nfb/publications/convent/addres93.htm
>> 
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> On Jul 21, 2015, at 8:42 AM, Stewart, Christopher K via blindlaw
>>> <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Laura:
>>> 
>>> For the record, all I gathered from your email was satisfaction that
>>> another blind person is taking the legal field by storm. I have no
>>> interest in playing a game of "show me yours I'll show you mine" with
>>> anyone. Nor did I mean to suggest that your methods are somehow less
>>> viable than mine and Derek's.
>>> 
>>> Moreover, I clearly misunderstood the nature of your use of a reader.
>>> If you used a sighted person only to get you started, and that worked,
>>> more power to you. My personal view is that anything that I can do
>>> myself, I should do myself. That is also in keeping with the
>>> organization who sponsors this list. However, the pragmatist in me
>>> knows that, at the end of the day, the goal should be employment and
>>> living the life we want. Whatever leads to this conclusion, in my
>>> opinion, is more or less the right way, and a foolish consistency is
>>> the hobgoblin of little minds.
>>> 
>>> Finally, Michal, of course life will go on just fine if you don't try
>>> for or make law review. But, we would be silly to ignore the
>>> employment disadvantages that are realities of blindness today.
>>> Writing on to your law review and maintaining good standing on the
>>> journal is an objective means of prospectively assuaging some
>>> employer's initial doubts, and many employers prefer journal
>>> experience. Do with that information what you will, and I wish you a
>>> ton of success in law school.
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> Chris
>>> 
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> Laura Wolk
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