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FIRST!!!!!!!!!

now im not a virgin

I failed it!

And people wonder why South Carolina and the like are regarded as backwards, good-ole-boy, backwater states.

Fail the bar exam? Have no fear! Just have you Daddy and his law buddies petition the Supreme Court!!!

I just wrote about cock fighting...

It's too bad. If she didn't end up passing, she might be shooting pool in a bikini right now.

Please DO out any of these pathetic favor grubbers who can't pass on their own two feet.

So the two kids with parents who have pull instigated this? and they needed to legitimize it with more people? Shocking.

check out my favorite professor from cumberland...

she is from south carolina

http://cumberland.samford.edu/cumberland_people.asp?ID=179

Cumberland grad: thanks for the mid-afternoon laugh.

Cumberland -- that is the funniest picture i've ever seen!!!

I'm not as bothered by this as I was last week. It sounds like there might have been a real issue with how one section was scored. Especially if the scores for that section were consistently out of line with scores for the other sections, it seems like valid grounds to regrade.

The only part about this that still bothers me is my suspicion that, had the parents not had as much power and influence, an otherwise legitimate issue might not have been given a second look.

4:40, Lat did not include the date of the excerpted email, which was at least a day before the day the Supreme Court claims to have discovered the scoring error. How is it that the children of the privileged knew that there was a problem with that section and knew that a bar examiner had been removed if the Supreme Court wouldn't know for another day (according to its own statement) that there was even a problem?

That's the problem with all this emailing and facebooking and iming. When I had my Dad change my bar exam score there was no email record of it. Just a few phone calls and baddabingbaddaboom, here I am.

4:43 - no clue. i'd imagine that someone made some calls and found out from the board of law examiners that there had been issues with the T&E section and then pressured the board to take official action and report it to the Supreme Court.

but that's total speculation on my part.

what I'm saying is that I doubt these people were able to create a problem that didn't actually exist, rather than simply drawing attention to it.

I think every employer should make sure there is a bowl of mixed nuts in the interview room -- that way peanut girl will be outted by the time anyone needs to make a hiring decision.

That prof parts her hair with an ax

people are stupid if they think this proves south carolina is backward because of this. do northerners honestly believe that they are less corrupt and children of judges or important politicians wouldn't try and use their family pull in this way? this is how the world works, to some degree, EVERYWHERE!

Um, if that guy needs his dad to help him out when he flunks the exam, maybe he is just not ready to be a lawyer.

The obvious problem is that the Supreme Court has treated this as if it were something untoward and therefore helped to perpetuate the image of this girl as an overprivileged and undeserving beneficiary of her father's position and this state as backward, good 'ol boy Dixie. Perhaps there were serious issues with the Wills section, and perhaps the examiner was somehow unqualified or unreasonable in completing his duties. But why not reveal that? And why act so defensive? In the second article from the State, the Chief Justice tears apart the newspaper for what she thinks is an underhanded implication that she might not really have been out of state when the news broke. Because the newspaper was informed by a staff member, they wrote that the Chief Justice was SAID to have been out of state. That's standard practice--they didn't or couldn't verify it, so they mark it as second hand. The Chief Justice is only adding fuel to the speculative fire.

the south still stinks.

5:19

At least we have water.

BACK TO YOUR DOC REVIEW SON!

Do they make everyone wear visors (like Spurrier) during the SC bar exam?

If not, they should.

"what I'm saying is that I doubt these people were able to create a problem that didn't actually exist, rather than simply drawing attention to it."

Well yeah--the problem was that they failed the bar exam, and people with influential daddies in hick backwaters aren't supposed to fail the bar exam. That was the "problem" that their daddies drew attention to and quickly managed to have resolved. Anymore questions?

5:43

Only 1. Will the south rise again?

Cumberland grad (aka 4:27)

Is that another illegitimate daughter of Strom Thurmond?

I wish y'all wouldn't make fun of her. She is my favorite skunk...i mean professor

I wish y'all wouldn't make fun of her. She is my favorite skunk...i mean professor

5:43 - thanks for sharing your wisdom with me. cleared the whole thing right up.

wait, the peanut girl thread was locked? does that mean someone finally named names?

Prof. Stoddard was a great writing professor and a genuinely great representation of Southern charm and wit. As for those who continue to make petty comments about the South and Cumberland, it only shows how little class the "elite" schools really have.

Why are y'all up in arms about this? It's called white privilege y'all - happens everyday to varying degrees.

Hey y'all

There are no CUmberlw grads in Biglaw unless you consider Atlanta Biglaw. That would be small weiner law.

Yeah, please unlock the peanut thread, even though I think 9:48 and I have opposite views to express.

How is DC and AM 100, Bitch?

There has always been affirmative action for rich, white kids. E.g. http://www.npr.org/blogs/news/2007/10/author_rich_white_kids_get_mor_1.html

No more rhymes now, I mean it!

Anybody wanna peanut?

1014 you didn't graduate from cumberland or you are lying about where you work! THERE ARE ZERO cumberland grads in biglaw.

ATLANTA IS NOT BIGLAW!!

I posted here a second ago and now it is gone. Shame on lat for regulating!!! Screw this site...i am going to xoxo

10:14 -

is this you?

http://www.srz.com/attorneys/attorneyDetail.aspx?attorneyId=39

10:14 -

is this you?

http://www.srz.com/attorneys/attorneyDetail.aspx?attorneyId=39

Here's what I don't understand. How would you fail the bar exam, and even if you got your score back (I guess they get it broken down by section?) come to the conclusion that you didn't just bomb the wills question, but instead that it was probably a bad question/bad grading, and so you go conduct a survey to see who else did really poorly on that question? Isn't that kind of random? I get that once you gathered the information that everyone did really poorly you might think you had a case, but I don't understand how they picked that to focus on in the first place.

The wills section must have seemed very screwy to set off these alarm bells. There has _always_ been affirmative action for hiring rich kids, so I guess affirmative action for admitting rich kids to the bar isn't too crazy, at least for a bar that has no respect.

Here's a thought, and just a hypothetical:

The wills question made no sense, was beyond the pale and obviously written by a professor with his head up his ass.

Most of us would just take the result and crawl into a hole with our tail between our legs to await the next bar exam. That is the way we were raised.

These girls were raised by parents who expect everything to go their way and are not afraid to speak out when things do not go there way. That is why there fathers have good position and can pick up the phone and call a supreme court justice.

What is the better approach? Why not expect good things to happen and assume that you should have passed. It worked for these two.

their fathers.

according to one of the linked articles, names of the 20 people who passed have already been published....

Anyone know what was purportedly wrong w/ the Wills question? Badly written? Badly graded? Both?

What is the better approach? Why not expect good things to happen and assume that you should have passed. It worked for these two.

Posted by: Anonymous | November 14, 2007 10:54 AM
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Uhhh . . . on what planet is petitioning the state Supreme Court for a passing grade on an exam you failed the equivalent of simply "expecting good things to happen"? You can't really be this much of a fool.

4:25 . . . you wouldn't want to see this chick shooting pool in a bikini. . . South Carolina is a safer place now that she'll have to wear a suit

...And the SC Supreme Court has STILL not given a reason or explanation for these changes other than that a "scoring error" was reported after Representative Harrison (who is the Chairman of the SC Judicial Board who APPOINTS the judges in SC) called the Supreme Court and Head of the Board of Examiners.

This thing is really going to blow up.