Law school: superlatives, round 2

A couple days ago, I posted my own list of 3L superlatives, and the persons in my class I thought best fit each one.

Today, I am going to do a bit of a reverse list–naming some folks and some superlatives that I think best fit the person. Here we go.

Katie Peterson:

• Best cooking, baking, and hostessing
• Best outlines
• Most likely to teach her children to sew, cook, ski, and knit, all before they turn five, and while making sure all are wearing color-coordinated outfits
• Best friend with whom to discuss the finer points of (a) Sex And The City, (b) Veronica Mars, and (c) cheesy 80′s movies everyone loves and no one admits to watching
• Most likely to set up playdates between her children and the children of a well-respected celebrity
• Best cosmopolitan maker (hence her nickname, CosmoPeterson)

Nathan Winger:

• Most likely to turn in his J.D. for a chance at hosting Monster Garage 2: The Post-Jesse Garage
• Most likely to design a computerized office rendering all assistants and secretaries unneccessary
• Most likely to pass out if ever confronted with a case involving hypodermic needles
• Best description of his civil procedure class to a pair of utterly perplexed 1Ls
• Best impression of a swedish exercise instructor while wearing a long-blonde wig and a T-shirt proclaiming “Chicks Dig Me”

Mike Ruff:

• Most likely to take on clients because their cases are meritorious, even though there is no chance he will receive monetary compensation for taking them
• Most likely to leave clients with the thought, “Huh–maybe lawyers are pretty trustworthy after all…”
• Most likely to write many series of notes to his neighbors in class, all the while refusing to install an IM program on his computer because it is “too distracting”
• Most likely to request that a web-surfing neighbor “pay attention!” to the professor
• Best Yahtzee skills
• Best Indian food
• Most considerate willingness to pick up a friend who accidentally ran her car battery down by leaving her lights on–multiple times–at various inconvenient locations, without so much as a hesitation or complaint

Jeromy Cannon:

• Most oustanding performance by a student in a law school curriculum
• Most humble genius and all-around nice guy
• Best one-liners (and bonus award for having a wife who also has the best one-liners)

Steve Hulst:

• Most impressive display of mastery over law school exams without the burden of actually attending class
• Most laidback while simultaneously being most likely to put the smack down on whatever law school subject he encounters
• Most likely to be able to show up to court and score a resounding victory without ever having actually studied the client’s file
• Most likely to disprove the oft-spoken theory that law school must be (a) painful, (b) full of studying, or (c) full of outlining in order to be successful

Steve Starks:

• Best conversationalist
• Most likely to be able to charm his way through any situation
• Best smile
• Most likely to go out of his way to say hello or wish you a good day, even if he’s on the phone or conversing with someone else (goes back to being very charming again, I guess!)

Jeremy Butler:

• Tallest law student
• Most likely to sit quietly in the back row of a really tough class, keeping a low-profile (tough for The Tallest Law Student), and yet be able to toss out articulate and often humorous answers to even the toughest complex federal litigation hypos thrown his way

Mandy Shell:

• Best law review note proofreader
• Best photographic documentation of all the really great law school social events

Courtney Cooper:

• Most impeccably groomed law student, ever, even during finals and all other time periods in which all other law students revert to PJ pants and sweatshirts
• Tied with Alison Crane & Kelly Borchers for: Most likely to receive comments of, “It really isn’t fair that she’s that pretty, and still that smart.”
• Best law student apartment

Alison Crane:

• Best hair
• Tied with Courtney Cooper & Kelly Borchers for: Most likely to receive comments of, “It really isn’t fair that she’s that pretty, and still that smart.”

Kevin Warren:

• Favorite student to sit behind in class because (a) he asks superb questions and gives well-worded answers to even tough hypos, and (b) he makes extremely funny comments very quietly to those sitting near him

Lauren Schafer:

• Most likely to tell you “how it is,” because she’s confident and sure of herself and has no urge to be anyone besides who she is (which is, in my book, awesome)

J.P. Cratty:

• Most splendidly cynical
• Best IM comments
• Most likely to make me laugh out loud at inopportune times during class because of said IM comments
• Most quoted friend in my personal collection of quotes
• Best backhanded compliments
• Most entertaining commentary on… anything
• Least-fitting IM screenname

Jeremy Watson:

• Best confident-without-being-cocky walk
• Second only to Steve Hulst in the “Most laidback while simultaneously being most likely to put the smack down on whatever law school subject he encounters” category

Kelly Borchers:

• Best childhood photos
• Best laugh
• Tied with Alison Crane & Courtney Cooper for: Most likely to receive comments of, “It really isn’t fair that she’s that pretty, and still that smart.”

Anne Eisele:

• Most likely to be chosen as a contributing editor to Vogue magazine for Fashion In The Business World
• Most concise and to-the-point dead-on answers in class
• Favorite student to watch each day to see what ensemble she’ll present, complete with perfect handbag, shoes, and accessories
• Most likely to insist that she deserves none of the above awards, even though she totally does

Melissa Nemecek:

• The Gwen Stefani Award for cutest and most stylish pregnancy

Josh Brown:

• Least likely to ever say anything negative about anyone else
• Best laugh

TEAM CASKEY! (consisting of Bryan Caskey, Dave Smith, Mike Zaradich, Joe Zielinski, and Mike Wright):

• Best answers in any of Professor Morrisson’s classes
• Lifesavers for the rest of the students in any of Professor Morrisson’s classes
• Group in whose honor several of us most wanted to create a T-shirt
• Best use of bow-ties in composite photo

Mahrya Fulfer:

• Most entertaining co-worker (so I’ve heard through a reliable source)
• Most likely to know the words to any song from any musical

Julienne Landsdown:

• Best, most awesome answers in business-related classes (Business Associations and Non-Profit Organizations, especially)

Nicole Wargin:

• Most naturally pretty, no makeup needed

Nick Gonzales:

• Best wine & cheese party host
• Most outgoing in support of his friends (i.e., a guy I’d want in my corner if times got tough)
• Best male law student apartment

Shelly Steiner:

• Most likely to know exactly what’s going on at the law school, all the time, while constantly being sweet, kind, and completely non-malicious with said knowledge
• Most likely to sincerely care about your answer when she asks you, “How are you?” or “How’s it going?”
• Most restrained use of laptop technology in class (i.e., she almost always uses it for actual note-taking, much moreso than most other laptop users)

Tim Emerick:

• Student you’d least want to argue against in a business-related class (a.k.a. The Professor Huss “Someone Tell Tim Emerick Why He’s Wrong” Award)
• Most likely to make an appearance at every law school social event
• Honorary Award for making one of my best friends the happiest she’s been in a long time

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