February Bar Results Are Here: Open Thread
Back in February, we wished them good luck. And now, some two months later, February bar exam takers are learning their fates. From a tipster:
Any chance of a story on February bar results? They're starting to come out. WA [just released] its results online, admittedly a completely unrepresentative sample, but where I took the bar.
This would be a good topic for ATL's new Community section. But since nobody has posted on it over there, we'll give you this here open thread.
New York, one popular jurisdiction among ATL readers, allows candidates to look up whether they passed this Wednesday, May 7, at 9 AM (EDT). Another major jurisdiction, California, makes results available to candidates a bit later: Friday, May 16, at 6 PM (PDT).
Back to our tipster:
As I understand it, the February takers are a motley assortment of clerks who liked the jurisdiction where they are clerking enough to take a second bar exam, people who forgot to take PR and graduated in December, part-time students with weird grad dates, and people who failed the July bar.
Paulina Bandy, this bud's for you.
February 2008 Bar Exam Results [New York State Board of Law Examiners]
February 2008 California Bar Examination Pass List [State Bar of California]
Earlier: Good Luck to February Bar Exam Takers!
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The NY State Board of Law Examiners are so insensitive. I just got fired from BigLaw for having a miscarriage, and now they failed me.
I passed the FIRST time!!!!!!!!
I passed the NY bar the first try, but just found out I failed the NV bar by less than a point. They're running a scam out here in the desert. If you ever contemplate coming out here, give it a second thought. They have no reciprocity, they don't want you, and they won't make it easy for you to practice here.
In November, those who failed the Bar were told to not worry because they could just pass the second time. How'd that work out for you?
1:35, I think they just don't want retards to practice there.
I passed the Bar!!!
Kash-- I am finally a lawyer, I have a stable job at PH in NYC (joined PH after getting pink-slipped from SAB when they discovered I have herpes). Are you interested?
Actually, Nevada sounds like the only intelligent state bar. How many attorneys are in NY now, 700 million?
1:35, over a third of UNLV grads are retards!
Please stop with the endless attempts to get people to use the retarded "Community" section of the blog. This redesign has been a colossal failure.
1:48 - I like the redesign. I like the ability to see "Recent Comments", as well as which posts are "Most Commented" and "Most Viewed".
The Community section is also a good feature. It allows us to raise topics that get ignored by Lat and Kash.
Louisiana had a 55% pass rate on the Feb exam. http://www.lascba.org/ Click on results, then statistics for breakdown by school.
I agree iwth 1:48. The site "redesign" is aweful and looks terrible.
Your info on California is wrong. Applicants can get results on May 16 at 6pm PST. May 18 is when the results are posted for the public.
I think the vast majority of February bar takers are people who failed in July.
I didn't like the redesign at first, but I am fine with it now. It has grown on me.
NH results have been out to the public for almost 2 weeks.
Then again, only 54 people took it so it couldn't have been hard to score.
Check out the failed list for the Louisiana Bar. My favorite is Wombat Jenkins. It's nice to see a board of bar examiners with a sense of humor!
http://www.lasc.org/press_room/bar_exam_results.asp
1:37, it worked out well for me.
57% pass rate in NV (nvbar.org/admissions). Pretty low considering we have plenty of tards practicing out in the desert--we just try to keep out the east coast retards.
Wow. Force Mejeure, Eli Stone, and Spring Turkey, Tiny Tim, Homer Simpson, Remember November, and Frank Sinatra all failed the Louisiana Bar, too.
What's with the joke?
What's the deal with Louisiana's fail list? I get that it's a fake, but why go through the effort.
My personal favoriate is Joe Bleaux.
Congrats 2:24!!
I took the February bar in Illinois and passed, yay. I had to take it because I moved to a different state, which was true of a number of the people I took it with. Most of the people I met had either just graduated, recently moved, or were practicing at a firm in a neighboring state that needed them to be admitted in Illinois as well. However, I'm sure people who failed might not have been advertising that fact.
The New Jersey results are out by number.
I'm surprised Jason Bourne failed the Louisiana bar... he seemed like a sharp guy.
Texas results have been up for several days, now. Apparently the overall pass-rate was about normal for February in the lone-star state: 65%.
Lat, you need to research the origins of this Louisana fail list. Seek a comment from the Louisian Bar. Use ATL to get some real news instead of these open threads.
I like the IDEA of the community section, but in PRACTICE it is an EPIC FAIL because it is very difficult to navigate to see old posts (even the popular ones).
It's not just the fail list, it's the others as well. Ron Burgundy had a conditional pass.
Johnny Utah is unable to be sworn in at this time...At least he can go surfing with the Ex-Presidents.
Captain America failed the LA bar too!
I failed the Feb. bar exam because I missed my carriage.
MA results are online now too. The main page claims that July results are up, but when you go to the actual results page it is really the Feb results.
http://mass.gov/bbe/results.htm
Ohio results were released May 2.
The Louisiana Bar allows takers to register under an alias so that in the event that they fail they don't have to have their feelings hurt/embarassed by seeing their name appear under EPIC FAIL. Based on the amount of aliases under the FAIL list as opposed to the passed list, I have to wonder if it is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
New Jersey results are out.
American Samoa and Idaho results are out.
can you do a post on which firms sent their soon-to-be summer associates a gift during spring exams?
Louisiana does not merely allow takers to register under an alias, it requires all takers to use an alias that is registered with the bar. The exam graders then have no idea whose paper they are grading. If you pass, they print your real name. If you fail or condition, they publish the alias and avoid undue embarrassment to the flunkers.
on the conditional fail list: Noah Deque
I missed passing my July bar by less than a point. Passed this time and increased my MBE by 20 points. I guess I was distracted last summer....
DOMINATE THE BAR!!!
www.dominatethebar.com