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Mixing love and legal education: what could possibly go wrong?

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By Thomas Connelly on

Combining your personal life with legal study seems to be all the rage in the US right now.

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What may be the most vomit-inducing Facebook status ever posted reached the legal blogosphere earlier this week. It was authored by a top law student at the University of Pennsylvania.

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The subject of the author’s affections didn’t seem to mind being lumped into the category of educational and professional achievements.

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The interaction continued….

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Meanwhile at the University of Detroit, an attention-seeking law student has shocked fellow staff and students by using his graduation to make a marriage proposal.


Happily, the proposee, who was among alumni assisting with the ceremony, said yes.


Watch the proposal in full below.

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