In Torts on Friday I was cold-called for the first time this semester, second time total. It seems that this semester the same group of five or six people keep getting cold-called in every class (maybe the professors are in cahoots and agreed beforehand to torment the same group of poor suckers?). I haven't been part of this group and thus haven't been called on at all up until Friday.
Our Torts prof has our names printed on index cards and my card was cut. I had a pretty good brief and was able to answer almost all the questions he posed. Unlike my last cold call, this time my heart didn't pound and my face didn't flush. I thought I handled it pretty well! The cases we've been reading are pretty straightforward, though, so I had it easy. We're studying the causation element of negligence torts. The particular case I stated was about a woman who suffered a collapsed lung while evacuated from a hotel during a fire alarm that was accidentally tripped by the cleaning crew who forgot to run the exhaust hood when cleaning out the hotel ovens. Fun stuff.
Cold calls aside, I think I'm doing a better job balancing the work load this semester, though I feel like we have WAY more going on. Appellate briefs and oral arguments are in two weeks (and we aren't sufficiently prepared for either). I also haven't spent as much time outlining as I did last semester, but I'm hoping I have time to do that when the Legal Writing work is done in March.
Lots to do...
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