1. Noun:
Someone who hijacks class discussion (and hence, class time) with irrelevant, or tangential opinions and/or questions.
2. Noun:
Someone who attempts, usually (and repeatedly) failing, to demonstrate his or her intellectual prowess by asking questions "out side the box." These questions, and the answers/discussion they force the professor to entertain, are never tested and rarely add positively to the lecture.
3. Someone who repeatedly asks questions during lectures that would be more appropriately discussed after class.
Someone who hijacks class discussion (and hence, class time) with irrelevant, or tangential opinions and/or questions.
2. Noun:
Someone who attempts, usually (and repeatedly) failing, to demonstrate his or her intellectual prowess by asking questions "out side the box." These questions, and the answers/discussion they force the professor to entertain, are never tested and rarely add positively to the lecture.
3. Someone who repeatedly asks questions during lectures that would be more appropriately discussed after class.
1. During discussion of a case in criminal law, one notorious law school gunner once proclaimed: "Professor, the holding of this case reminds me of a Klingon proverb, you know, 'Revenge is a dish best served cold.'"
2. A law school gunner would preface a question with, "Well, in the bible it says x." Prof. would answer, "Well in the Constitution it says Y. And it's the Constitution that will be tested on my exam."
3.
After asking a dozen questions in the span of 45 minutes, the following exchange may occur:
Gunner: "Professor, I have another question."
Prof: "Ok, but this is the last one for this lecture, we have to move on."
Gunner: "Well, I have several more, and I'd like to ask them." (The gunner then proceeds to ask them).
2. A law school gunner would preface a question with, "Well, in the bible it says x." Prof. would answer, "Well in the Constitution it says Y. And it's the Constitution that will be tested on my exam."
3.
After asking a dozen questions in the span of 45 minutes, the following exchange may occur:
Gunner: "Professor, I have another question."
Prof: "Ok, but this is the last one for this lecture, we have to move on."
Gunner: "Well, I have several more, and I'd like to ask them." (The gunner then proceeds to ask them).
by esoteric714 April 10, 2009
Phrase common in NYC, but useful in many metropolitan areas, particularly those that boast a top-tier law school. A "law school girlfriend" is a young lady with a non-descript corporate job (i.e., she works in "sales," "PR," or "marketing") and dates a man attending a nearby top-tier law school. She has no actual redeeming qualities, save being very attractive and urban chic. She uses her looks and her pseudo-corporate job to impress the law student into dating her, with the hope that he will marry her once he graduates and begins making $200K a year.
Law Student 1: Yo, you met Dave's new girl, right? What did you think?
Law Student 2: She's pretty hot, and works downtown or something.
Law Student 1: Law school girlfriend?
Law Student 2: Totally.
Law Student 2: She's pretty hot, and works downtown or something.
Law Student 1: Law school girlfriend?
Law Student 2: Totally.
by CLS-oh-four March 23, 2008
used to describe women who, in any other scenario would be considered hunchbacked, slovenly, heinous wildebeasts. But, because of their captive audience (law school men) and their alternatives (other trolls, buffalos, and wildebeasts) they somehow garner attraction.
Q: "Is she hot or law school hot?"
A: "Well, considering her muffin-top fupa, hairy upper lip, lazy eye, and club foot, she is most definitely law school hot."
A: "Well, considering her muffin-top fupa, hairy upper lip, lazy eye, and club foot, she is most definitely law school hot."
by DU2L March 5, 2008
Similar to a "work spouse." Someone (generally of the opposite sex) from your law school whom you spend extended amounts of time with, have a beyond simple friendship special bond, and rely on for support. This person often knows more about you than other people and you commonly share inside secrets or jokes. Generally the relationship is flirty and may include sexual tension, but rarely crosses the line to include actual sexual acts.
*Warning* May lead to jealousy from your actual real-life partner who doesn't understand the depth of bonding law school leads to.
*Warning* May lead to jealousy from your actual real-life partner who doesn't understand the depth of bonding law school leads to.
by ActusReas May 22, 2009
The phenomenon of barely mediocre-looking males finding themselves fought over by increasingly desperate single women going through a quarter-life crisis who, by default, turn to any single (or not single) guy within proximity.
"So Brian lives with his parents, is hugely in debt, eats mayo sandwiches, is in law school because he's afraid of the real world and has manboobs... but he's kinda cute in his own way"
"that's because you're 27, law school leaves no time to meet anyone, and you think you'll die alone. You need to get out of Sullivan Hall - he's just law school hot."
"that's because you're 27, law school leaves no time to meet anyone, and you think you'll die alone. You need to get out of Sullivan Hall - he's just law school hot."
by Seattle U Law 2011 January 19, 2009
1. Gunners do not have the first clue.
2. They try to sound smart.
3. They probably are the class "anvil" in a law school with a tight curve.
4. And finally, they end up dropping out or just come to accept that their classmates get their above qualities and so they stop trying to fool everyone else, including themselves.
These gunners wither away and become normal, despite having gone to law school, and they become replaced.
However, sometimes gunners go into hibernation, or some latent gunners who never had the audacity to be a gunner in law school, become your stereotypical lawyer when they manage to stumble their way into a job after law school.
Do not be fooled with people in the legal profession, or any other profession, who try hard to sound smart by using, for example, "par excellence" and "since time immemorial" in the same sentenced stuffed with legalese. It's OK if every now and then people get "rewarded" for no merit if that means they will shut up, as long as they know that we are in on their game, and that they'll have to change eventually into mature adults.
2. They try to sound smart.
3. They probably are the class "anvil" in a law school with a tight curve.
4. And finally, they end up dropping out or just come to accept that their classmates get their above qualities and so they stop trying to fool everyone else, including themselves.
These gunners wither away and become normal, despite having gone to law school, and they become replaced.
However, sometimes gunners go into hibernation, or some latent gunners who never had the audacity to be a gunner in law school, become your stereotypical lawyer when they manage to stumble their way into a job after law school.
Do not be fooled with people in the legal profession, or any other profession, who try hard to sound smart by using, for example, "par excellence" and "since time immemorial" in the same sentenced stuffed with legalese. It's OK if every now and then people get "rewarded" for no merit if that means they will shut up, as long as they know that we are in on their game, and that they'll have to change eventually into mature adults.
Law school gunner: "I do not think that is what Judge Cardozo meant by his opinion."
Professor: "But that is what he wrote."
Professor: "But that is what he wrote."
by Mexican Law Student March 20, 2009
Practice mistress you use during law school so that if your wife finds out you have nothing to lose as opposed to the real world mistress that you get once you are out of law school and making big money.
The law school mistress doesn't necessarily have to be up to your standards due to the fact that it is temporary and only practice for the real thing.
The law school mistress doesn't necessarily have to be up to your standards due to the fact that it is temporary and only practice for the real thing.
Bryan: "Help me pick out a law school mistress."
Sean: "Don't worry if you don't pick well, it's only practice."
Sean: "Don't worry if you don't pick well, it's only practice."
by Blam684 November 3, 2009