I am pretty sure this is a form of hazing for law students. This is for people who write or grade on to law review. You sit in a room (with no windows) on your computer verifying 1) the place where they claim this info came from is correct 2) the citation form they used is correct and 3) their grammar is all correct. I have spent about 5 hours on this so far and done a total of 11 cites. I have to do 45. That leaves 34 more and I am averaging about one every 1/2 hour. That means 17 hours. Fortunately, this will not be the case. My first cite was to a 1930's handwritten census (that was cited incorrectly). The census was 1,160 pages. I had to verifying the man's name was somewhere on that census and get the page number because the writer was lazy. Since the document is handwritten (IN CURSIVE), I couldn't do a simple document search of the microfilm because the computer would not recognize the cursive. Worst thing I have ever done in my life. This means I spent 2 of those 5 hours on one cite. 1 of those 5 hours I spent searching for a 1964 Virginia state session law. So, 2 hours were spent doing 9 cites. If I don't get anymore craziness, I could be done in as little as 7 hours! Ugh.
Why is Law Review good again?
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