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Dear LegallyBlogged,

Yeah, well, WTF is right.  Except I’m directing the expletive at you.  What are you, in the running for “Brown Nose of the Year” or somesuch?  Seriously, stop looking at your classmates’ skirts and keep your eyes on the law books.  The last thing we need is to add ‘lech’ to the many, er, attributes of our lawyers. 

Everyone who’s ever been to school knows three things: 1) cheating is not atypical, 2) students don’t cheat very often, and 3) pretty much everyone cheats at some point but rarely is anyone caught.

Now, if your Ally McBeal-type-mini-skirted-aspiring-ambulance-chaser friend decides she wants to carve up her epidermis with legal notes and dates, that’s her business.  If she’s crazy enough to try, so be it.  Plus, those who cheat egregiously and recklessly will likely be caught at some point in time.  Why get bent over someone else’s inability to learn?  And if your professor is dumb enough not to notice, then we’ve just had another triumph over ‘the system’.  Plenty of successful lawyers have cheated their way through law school, at least in part, and we can’t tell them apart from the ones who didn’t cheat.  Of course, we do have one resoundingly stupid “historian” who’s cheating has been documented since his days at Yale, who seems—nay is—incapable of learning from history, and now he’s Leader of the Free World.  Or what used to be known as the Free World. 

In short, don’t try to change the world in this petty, semantic, tattle-tale manner.   Everyone has the right to be a self-righteous prick, but you’ve abused the privilege.

Cheers,

The Judge