The wall. I hit it about half an hour ago. It’s a place where the sheer magnitude of information you must know becomes so blindingly clear that it’s disorienting and disheartening. It’s like hearing you’re going to be squaring off with Bruce Lee for a few weeks. Intimidating to know about it, but a totally different story when you’re actually toe-to-toe.
As I was going through joinder of parties and claims I ran right into the wall at a high rate of speed.
It happened when I was reading Rule 14. For non law students, this is a sample.
(2) Third-Party Defendant’s Claims and Defenses.
The person served with the summons and third-party complaint – the “third-party defendant”:
(A) must assert any defense against the thirdparty plaintiff’s claim under Rule 12;
(B) must assert any counterclaim against the third-party plaintiff under Rule 13(a), and may assert any counterclaim against the third-party plaintiff under Rule 13(b) or any crossclaim against another third-party defendant under Rule 13(g);
(C) may assert against the plaintiff any defense that the third-party plaintiff has to the plaintiff’s claim; and
(D) may also assert against the plaintiff any claim arising out of the transaction or occurrence that is the subject matter of the plaintiff’s claim against the third-party plaintiff.
This is a segment of Rule 14. There are roughly 20 of these rules you must know. These rules are a fraction of the total material.
Then you realize you have 14 hours until you take a crack at the test. Then you realize that the freak out is setting in. Then you freak out about freaking out. It’s at that point you have brain death.
I’m taking half an hour off to avoid brain death. Then I’m climbing over the wall and proceed with grinding away because all freaking out is is a positive feedback loop. That’s a bad thing.
-WK
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