I would like to be referred to as Dr. J.
Yes, I know I'm not really a doctor....But all is well, there is now a complete lack of any doubt about my graduation status, my last grade is in. Unless they just wanna be assholes, I have completed all requirements for being awarded a juris doctorate.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
now I just gotta work on that Esquire part.
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7 comments:
I'll call you JD. No prob.
Are you drunk? She said "Dr. J."
Whatever. JD it is.
Call me what you will. My exuberance over this new suffix will not last as long as this debate. If I weren't surrounded by so many other J.D.'s it would be a hella lot more fun, but thanks for caring.
Once I pass the bar I will get to be an esquire. A proper lawyer, licensed to practice law.
And on that note: My summer will officially suck. 10 hours a day studying for the bar. I will however, be taking Friday night through Sunday afternoon off. So if you want to hang, Saturday night will be the only opportunity. (Friday being reserved for date night, and Sunday for recovery)
I like Saturday night, JD. Rokken.
Congratz jkf on you JD. How does jkfJD sound? (A bit alphabet soupy I guess.)
I too, would like to know the distinction between JD and Esq. I'm ignorant with regards to the heirarchy of law professions.
It's all just silliness, but a JD (juris doctorate) is the degree one receives when one graduates (Saturday!).
Esquire is just the term we have decided to take for ourselves (we being attorneys), in lieu of a cool title like Dr. An esquire is a person who attends a knight, in preparation to becoming a knight. America intended to do away with all titles of nobility, but lawyers were able to hold on to this little bit.
A juris doctorate, by the way, is one of the two fastest ways to get a doctoral degree (the other being whatever a dentist gets). only three years, and one gets to skip the master's part. There is a higher degree also, an LLM, which is a one year program. I don't have enough money for that (rather I cannot go any more into debt...$150,000 is enough for now.)
Some think it both titles pretentious, as do I for the most part, but I also think that I most definitely deserve it. Getting through law school was the most difficult thing I have ever done in my life (esp. this semester, in which I completed both my paper requirements and had four classes - three of which were exam graded and one that required three short papers). Not recommended nor generally possible, but I prevailed and feel pretty damn good about it.
So call me what you will: I will have earned my JD suffix on Saturday, though esquire will have to wait until I find out if I pass the bar (taking it the end of July, results thereafter).
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