seriously? first?

firsty firsty

I thought the bar exam was a slam dunk.

she should care - isn't she practicing?

eh, bitch bitch bitch.

i spent far more time drinking than i did studying, and i passed the bar. she has no excuse.

Boies Schiller must be proud.

Disagree. It's ALWAYS cool to make fun of people who failed the bar exam!!

Her commitment to the profession is a joke, and by her own admission it's basically just a lark.

LULZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

LULZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Cunt.

LULZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Still looks good on that cover. <-- this statement probably devalues her more than 12's.

Um? She's no longer practicing as an attorney? Well at least not at Boies anymore...can they fire you for failing the bar? I thought NYC had a 91% pass rate.

http://www.bsfllp.com/lawyers/search_out?sa_LastName=W

WHERE DOES SHE WORK?

I WANT TO WORK THERE!

16-

http://www.bsfllp.com/index.html

unlikely she is listed on the firm before she passes the bar.

18, why's that? it's not like once you pass your are admitted to the bar. that usually happens months down the road.

Oh man, this is tempting.

The bottom line is that bar exams exist as a barrier to entry. A silly, ultimately useless barrier because most people with half a brain ultimately get admitted after failing once or twice.

But EW has proven herself the typical YLS douchebag - "Oh, had I gone to a lesser school, you know, one of those schools the Proles have to attend, I would probably have been prepared to fail the bar because, well, I know this sounds harsh, but as a non-Yalie I'd be used to being a loser, right?"

Oh man, this is tempting.

The bottom line is that bar exams exist as a barrier to entry. A silly, ultimately useless barrier because most people with half a brain ultimately get admitted after failing once or twice.

But EW has proven herself the typical YLS douchebag - "Oh, had I gone to a lesser school, you know, one of those schools the Proles have to attend, I would probably have been prepared to fail the bar because, well, I know this sounds harsh, but as a non-Yalie I'd be used to being a loser, right?"

19 - when 18 wrote "passes the bar", he/she meant passing the written and C&F...i.e. be admitted to the bar

14 - no, the cover she chose to put on one of her novels is what devalued her.

- Nervously waiting for Nervous 1L's snarky comments

Yale's passage rate is only 91.2%. It ranks 36th.
http://www.ilrg.com/rankings/law/index.php/1/desc/Bar

I think given the prestige (and cost) of Yale, the complaint that 3 years there doesn't prepare you enough to take the bar is pretty legit. Imagine how low it would be if those students weren't taking bar review classes. I'm sure everyone at Yale takes one, since they should have either firms or family to pick up the tab. Compare that to schools that do better where many more students do self study, like Wisconsin (100%), Alabama (97.2%), or Campbell (96.5%).

Yale's 91.2% passage rate is pretty embarrassing.

David B. was an overrated lawyer
name rec only turned into riches

I'm betting that she's a moron.

Wisconsin is only 100% because you don't have to take the Wisconsin Bar if you went to school in Wisconsin. You automatically are admitted. Jesus, people.

David B. was an overrated lawyer
name rec only turned into riches

Campbell? They only teach the bar and how to manage a solo practice, since that is the only kind their graduates get.

Elie, your posts have been pretty good today. I have one piece of constructive criticism (and other posters can correct me if I'm wrong).

Aren't the blue boxes just for material that is not your own (and should always be linked to the source, if possible)? It seems like a lot of your own work is getting blue boxed for emphasis, and it's a little confusing.

25 - First off, correct me if I'm wrong, but WI doesn't have a bar exam...accordingly, 100% passing rate. Second, IMHO, no T14 law school prepares students for the bar. Bottom line, these are all excuses....anyone who fails the bar did not do the work necessary to pass the exam.

"Elizabeth Lee Wurtzel (born July 31, 1967 in New York City) is an American writer, attorney and journalist famous for her work in the confessional memoir genre." Uh oh. Wiki, you crazies.

"In Praise of Difficult Women?" WTF?

I'm tired of women thinking that being a bitch is okay because it shows that they're strong or cool or edgy. You're not. You're just a bitch. Stop trying to make your lack of social skills/good sex/friends who actually like you look like a feminist triumph.

she was a joke as a writer.

now she isn't even a lawyer just a law school graduate.

she blew enough new york media types with yellowing corneas who can no longer see she's not hot. so the Yale thing bought her 3 more years.

but soon she'll just have a blog. or OD.

"Elizabeth Lee Wurtzel (born July 31, 1967 in New York City) is an American writer, attorney and journalist famous for her work in the confessional memoir genre." Uh oh. Wiki, you crazies.

"Elizabeth Lee Wurtzel (born July 31, 1967 in New York City) is an American writer, attorney and journalist famous for her work in the confessional memoir genre." Uh oh. Wiki, you crazies.

20: Excellent use of "proles." No, of course you didn't fail because you just didn't get it, you failed because the air your breathe is just too rarified for Commercial Paper and New York Practice.

And it's not a "weird test" at all. The problem is you, Liz, not the test.

How do I get a job at Boies Schiller? I want to look at her and get a fat bonus

http://abovethelaw.com/2008/01/a_sevenfigure_payday_for_boies.php

eeehhh no nekkid pictures of her to mock so I'm not interested. next topic please.

28/32: Sorry, I was unaware about the rule in Wisconsin.

I agree that it's the individual test-taker's fault if they fail. But, it's still embarrassing for Yale's passage rate to be that low.

-25

39 -- did you mean fat boner?

The bitch got into Yale because she's "famous," not because she's smart. I'm sure Yale must be so proud to have given her the chance, only to watch her act like the stupid bitch she is.

Another "Yale bitch" who failed the bar the first time? HILLARY CLINTON

Another "Yale Law bitch" who failed the bar the first time? HILLARY CLINTON

Another "Yale Law bitch" who failed the bar the first time? HILLARY CLINTON

32, WI has a bar exam but students who graduated from a Wisconsin law school (UW or Marquette are the only two in the state) are waived in. So the only people sitting for the WI exam are people who went to school outside Wisconsin but who want to be admitted in WI.

25, you're an idiot, see above.

43
she had a 160 LSAT.
normally, I think Yale looks for higher than that. unless you are a cokehead writer slut. then 160 is fine.

I suspect with such small class sizes the low passage rate on the Bar for Yale is almost entirely due to douchetards who think they are so smart they don't have to study for the bar. You know, because they went to Yale.

49 - Spot on

I can't speak for this particular individual, but actually, 41, the 2 people I know from Yale who failed the bar were both non-native English speakers. Since the class size is only around 150, having a few internationals who fail could really skew the average, much more so than at a school with a bigger class size. So, I'm not sure I'd say the pass rate is "embarrassing." Also, again speaking for non-native English speakers who fail, I'm not sure I'd say it's their fault they weren't born in an English speaking country.

I'm sick to death of this woman. She wasn't qualified to get into Yale. She further proved her lack of merit by blowing off the Bar Exam. (Remember, she was giving interviews this summer saying that she wasn't really studying.) She doesn't deserve to practice, and I hope Boies Schiller realizes that.

No top school prepares you for the Bar. Each assumes that you have the brains gave a T14 monkey and knew how to respect that you should study for a test that thousands of people ahead of you had to study for. Some things in life are important and you have to take them seriously. I wouldn't want her as my lawyer, because I wouldn't know at any given time if she just didn't feel like putting in the effort.

Bitch, indeed.

As a Yale grad, I can pretty confidently say that it's no pedagogical failure of the school to prepare its students for the bar exam. In reality, there's always a few students who try but still fail for the standard reasons, but the school disproportionately attracts future academics (who take the bar because it can't hurt, but don't have any sense of urgency or necessity) and the "above it all" personalities who see the menial task of killing themselves preparing for the bar as below them. Wurtzel fits this latter category.

Remember that 80's comeback: I may be fat, but you're ugly -- and I can lose weight?

See if you can construct a new sentence with these new components.
1. Failed the bar
2. Went to a TTT
3. Pass the bar and not have my credentials challenged for the rest of my professional career.

Ok - maybe non-native speakers and the rest that fail from Yale are douchetards who thought they could pass without studying because they went to Yale.

-49

Passing the bar is not that hard. If you of more than medium intellect, you should pass easy unless you put in ZERO effort.
Did she put in more than zero effort? Maybe not.
Should she have gotten into Yale? NO
Will she be at her law firm in 6 months? HAHAHA
Hope she doesn't spend her stub bonus on shoes/drugs or the freelance work for does for mags will be her only source of income. besides whoring

51 - clear this up for me but foreigner who apply to YLS still have to take the LSAT, no? If so, the language barrier most likely didn't affect their LSAT score so why would it affect their chances of passing the bar exam (where even people from TTTT schools pass)?

UGLY LAWYERS FROM HLS WHO RUN ATL < HOTTIE WHO FAILED THE BAR. HTH T00L.

She looks like she'll be fine with her firm's bonuses:

http://abovethelaw.com/2008/01/a_sevenfigure_payday_for_boies.php

The best law schools do not prepare you for the bar exam. At those law schools, you are debating the finer points of law because you have an intellect that can handle such discourse. Plus, you'll need that philosophical background when you are on the Supreme Court.

The worst law schools do a good job preparing people for the bar exam, because [1] they have nothing else to offer, [2] they are desperate to make any impact in ranking systems so they go for "hey, if you go here, you'll pass!" and [3] they know their students will need three full years of studying for the bar in order to pass that examination of minimum competency.

That said, the best law schools assume that the intellect of its students will be enough to pass the bar. This woman, clearly, lacks such intellect.

60 - you clearly don't have a clue what you're talking about. Come back once you complete your GED

Does any law school prepare you for the bar? Wouldn't BarBri be out of business otherwise?

57, yes, they still have to pass the LSAT, but a multiple-choice test is much easier to do well on than a 2-day written essay exam. In my experience, it's one thing to understand input in another language and another task entirely to produce output (i.e., respond) in that langauge at a reasonable rate.

57, yes, they still have to pass the LSAT, but a multiple-choice test is much easier to do well on than a 2-day written essay exam. In my experience, it's one thing to understand input in another language and another task entirely to produce output (i.e., respond) in that langauge at a reasonable rate.

Girls at my high school used to fail the bar after epically crashing and burning in their writing careers all the time. It was no big deal.

63 - Not sure about any other state but NY is one day written, and one day multiple choice (the MBE which consists of 40% of the entire test). Further, no one has ever failed the NY Bar with >70% questions correct in the multiple choice.

even if she eventually passes the written test, she shouldn't pass the character and fitness portion of the bar. i feel like publishing naked pictures of yourself giving the middle finger is, to put it euphemistically, unprofessional.

52-
TITCP. What's even worse is that she disgraces the entire profession with her seeming "confessional pride" in advertising her own lack of moral character and chemical addictions.

How many years did it take her to complete the JD, again?

"kinda having a good time"

...I assume that means she's back to snorting Columbia's finest export?

Law school doesn't prepare you for the bar. BarBri does. Law professors will tell you that.
T10-15 (depending on which poll you read) 3L

70 -- Colombia has 2 o's. You and Wurtzel have something in common: you've just learned of your recent failures via the Internet.

If you consistently post horrible comments that aren't funny (at all), I would not select an avatar to diiferentiate yourself from other anonymous posters.

For example, when I see the Teddy Bear, I pass. No thanks. I'd rather not read Mr. Teddy Bear's recycled thoughts on the issue at hand. Please write all future thoughts on a piece of paper and kindly dispose of the paper in a wastebasket.

Wonder if she shaves her beaver? I heard Yale girls don't.

-Prestigious Southerner

#71 goes to a non-top14 law school, according to the USNews Rankings.

73 -- I heard Prestigious Southeners shave their ding-dongs and balls.

The reason she got into YLS is the same reason any "actress" who wants to "advance herself" magically end up at Harvard and Stanford. Either people in the entertainment field are uber brilliant, or, much more likely, super dorky administrators and profs are blatant starf*ckers.

Then how did she end up at Boies Schiller?

6- COOL! PARTY PARTY DRINK DRINK PARTY DRINK COOL!! YAHH LETS PARTY AND DRINK SOMETIME!!!

77: TITCQ

You all sound bitter and ridiculous. I wouldn't be surprised if Wurtzel intentionally gave a remark that would piss off the lawyer hoi polloi. Why the hate? Also, why do you care so much? Sad that a test that measures one's ability to cram and regurgitate information means so much to y'all. Maybe that's why the profession is such a mess.

77: Because Yale doesn't have grades and firms bend over for pedigree even (perhaps especially) when someone will clearly burn out of the practice after putting in their 2-3 years?

This pile-on would be totally uncalled for, but for her blaming Yale for her failure.

No decent school prepares you for the bar. I have serious doubts about whether even TTTs prepare you. People who went to law school in Israel, Germany and Australia pass the NY bar. You take Barbri and put in your study hours. If you fail, it's because you are lazy or stupid. Full stop.

Some of these COMENTS are discusting and this little TART needs to put some CLOTHES on. She OBVIOUSLY thnks she can only succeed by letting MEN stare at her but she SHOULD be reading a book in the library and study. I passed the bar AND I am attractive, at least my boyfreind says so, and THATS all that matters. And I did NOT need to know ANTI-TRUST law.

She SHOULD be ashamed of failling AND of showing her private parts for all these rude MEN or should I say BOYS to gawk at. HOPEFULLY that does not get me banned for saying what I BELIEVE like at aba journal. I researched and "Molly" does not work for Above The Law, but they might be a conglomerate.

I like how someone updated her Wikipedia entry to include her EPIC FAIL.

Let's summarize this thread:

1. EW is not a good writer.

2. EW was not qualified under the usual standards for admission to YLS but got in because of some combination of fame/cup size?

3. EW is an "above it all" personality who thinks that bar exams are for suckers & Proles.

4. Yet despite all this, EW works for David B's firm, where competent, ambitious lawyers - lawyers willing to debase themselves to actually pass the bar exam (which all admit is an idiotic barrier to entry) - make bank.

5. And notwithstanding what a superficial, spoiled, and truly clueless brat EW undoubtedly is, some clueless nitwits are willing to defend this waste of space.

85,

Please see comment 72.

Thanks.

Let's summarize this thread:

1. EW is not a good writer.

2. EW was not qualified under the usual standards for admission to YLS but got in because of some combination of fame/cup size?

3. EW is an "above it all" personality who thinks that bar exams are for suckers & Proles.

4. Yet despite all this, EW works for David B's firm, where competent, ambitious lawyers - lawyers willing to debase themselves to actually pass the bar exam (which all admit is an idiotic barrier to entry) - make bank.

5. And notwithstanding what a superficial, spoiled, and truly clueless brat EW undoubtedly is, some clueless nitwits are willing to defend this waste of space.

Reason number 1205 why women do not belong in big law or any workplace for that matter. Get back in the kitchen.

She's way hotter on the book cover than she is in real life.
What is wrong with these Yalies? Seriously. And Harvard, you're no better. At BakerBotts Houston, a freaking Harvard grad failed the bar. C'mon T5 schools...get with the program.

Dear 86:

Please see 20.

Muchas gracias.

Your friend,

Shortbus

86 nailed it, son. Old Skool.

Did she actually spend 4 or 5 years at YLS? Seems like that would be a much bigger FAIL than the bar.

90/85/21/20:

Change your little avatar symbol. Take a shower. Sleep on it. And start over.

72, 86 - you win.

90,

you've never been funny or insightful. ever. never, ever.

cool avatar, though. idiot.

It's an epic fail, but it's more likely dysfunction than stupidity. Wasn't her first book about the malaise of her undergrad years at Harvard?

It's an epic fail, but it's more likely dysfunction than stupidity. Wasn't her first book about the malaise of her undergrad years at Harvard?

54: Just because EW went to YLS, she will still have her credentials questioned for the rest of her life--BECAUSE SHE GOT WHERE SHE IS ON HER LOOKS & FAME.

98: BUT HOW DID SHE ACQUIRE FAME? I think she wrote a book or something. A book people actually paid to read. Lots of people. Which is more than I can say for you. I don't think anybody in their right mind would pay to read something that originated from your brain.

99, even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while.

99- people pay hookers to hump them. some hookers get quite famous.

100/101,

That would be a great point if EW were a whore, a squirrel, or a whore squirrel. But she's not. She's an author that wrote a best-selling book.

You? You're in law school. Probably studying for finals at some shit law school because you barely cracked 158 on the LSAT. Don't worry, though. I'm sure you'll break into the top 10% and secure that 3K/week summer job that you hear so much abou. You probably had great GPA in college - something around a 3.50. Law school should be a piece of cake for you. The rest of these idiots? Their outlines are wrong. They're not "getting it."

Good luck.

wait, isn't this the broad who after 9/11 realized her destiny was to do something profound, so she decided to be an associate at a law firm?

nice

I'd still do her.

#25, law schools are not supposed to prepare you to pass the Bar. If you have half a brain and do what Barbri tells you, you pass the Bar. It isn't rocket science. Most who fail flow it off like this chick or something bad happens like a panic attack. If you don't memorize the bullshit, you fail no matter how smart your are or what law school you go to.

I didn't even read this post. I just wanted to say nice cans.

Emailed by Ms Wurtzel on July 11, 2008, to the YLS list-serve "The Wall":

I sure am sick of studying for the bar, and I can barely bring myself to do it. Thanks for asking. Anyone else who is fed up with it, feel free to tackle this MBE-ish hypothetical:

You are walking through Central Park, which by chance is property of the city of New York, when you notice a large structure with an open front face. It is marked "Property of the State of New York." Being curious, you walk in and find yourself in a wind tunnel. You know this because a propeller from an industrial fan comes flying at you and knocks you over. You are certain you have a concussion. As you are about to stand up and recover your composure, a man comes toward you with a vacuum cleaner, and astonished to see you lying there, he lets the huge thing fly out of his hands and it runs you over, breaking various limbs. He is an employee of Highly Hazardous E-Stop-L Cleaning Service of Bayonne, New Jersey and his name is Jose. He lives in Bridgeport, Connecticut, on work release from the Department of Corrections, where he was incarcerated for narcotics possession and related crimes.

Jose has taken his Adderall today, but not as instructed: he has taken seven pills instead of one, even though the packaging inside warns not to operate heavy machinery if you are taking any amount of the medication. He was prescribed the Adderall by a general practitioner through his HMO, which is part of a Connecticut state plan for the uninsured. His doctor has no special knowledge about psychopharmocological drugs. As Jose is jumping up and down and pulling the vacuum cleaner off of you, the ceiling caves in. It is made out of glass because this is an experiment in combining solar and wind energy for greater efficiency, which is being conducted jointly by a professor from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a researcher affiliated with Columbia University, underwritten by a grant from the US Environmental Protection Agency, with additional funding from Cos Cob Venture Partners, LLP, of Greenwich, Coonecticut. Glass shards are everywhere. The structure is over six years old, and the architect resides in Vermont, with offices in Hanover, New Hampshire and Portland, Maine, though the contract to build the structure was signed on Long Island. The contractor who was subcontracted by the architect to do the construction is based in Lynn, Massachusetts, and incorporated in the Cayman Islands.

Just as you and Jose are about to stand up amid the glass, propellers and vacuum cleaner parts, you smell fumes: apparently there is a gas leak from
the heating system that was installed to keep workers warm during the winter. Both of you faint. At this moment, 22 children, ages nine and ten, come rushing into the shack to see what's going on, and all of them faint as well, but one of them first throws his model airplane into the air, and the glue makes the fumes even more poisonous. Soon there are 24 bodies all in a heap. An employee of the Central Park Conservancy, a not-for-profit organization, who is chopping up some wood nearby, comes rushing over to see what has happened, axe in hand. As he approaches, the blade looses from the handle, flies through the open face of the shack, and strikes Jose in the hip.

When you finally make it to the hospital, there is so much confusion that the doctor accidentally puts a pacemaker into you. One of Jose's legs has been amputated because he has been mistaken for another Hispanic shooting victim, though the injuries are not the same. Despite his deep confusion, Jose has so much Adderall in his system that he hears the doctor say, "These spics--they're always getting into trouble." It is a state hospital. In the meantime, CNN cameras have rode along in the ambulance with you to the hospital and taken footage of you looking all bloody, and you were in no condition to stop it. You feel humiliated and ashamed--insult to injury.

QUESTIONS:

Here are all the parties: You, Jose, the state of New York, the city of New York, the Environmental Protection Agency, MIT, Columbia University, Cos Cob Venture Partners, CNN, the state hospital, the state of Connecticut, Jose's general practitioner, your doctor at the hospital, Jose's doctor at the hospital, 22 nine- and ten-year-olds, the Central Park Conservancy, the man with the axe, the heating company, the manufacturer of the heating unit, the gas company, the architect, the construction company, Highly Hazardous E-Stop-L Cleaning Service, the axe manufacturer, the blade manufacturer, the model airplane manufacturer, the glue manufacturer, the manufacturer of the vacuum cleaner, the manufacturer of Adderall, the HMO, the manufacturer of the wind tunnel, the manufacturer of the fan, God almighty.

Who can sue whom? How many lawsuits can we get out of this? Are there assignment and delegation possibilities? Third-party defendants? Comparative liabilities? Contributory liabilities? Joint and several liabilities? Cross claims? Countersuits? Diagrams are not an acceptable answer.

Can the children's parent's be sued for bringing them into the world?

Can you be sued for trespass to lands?

What are your claims against the state of New York?

What are your claims against the city of New York?

What are your claims against the government of the United States?

In which court would you sue, assuming you have claims?

Are there First Amendment problems here?

Are there Fourteenth Amendment issues here?

Is there any way to get personal jurisdiction over the architect? The contractor?

Can New York City sue New York State? Can New York sue Connecticut? Can any state sue the United States? Who has jurisdiction?

If there is an appeal where will it end up?

If Jose dies because of all this, and is intestate, will New York law apply?

Will any law apply to any of this, or is this just a very unfortunate way to spend a day?

People who excel in one industry and then transition into another get to bypass "proving themselves" all the time. Get over it. She is just taking advantage of the respect prior success has given her. Who cares if she passes or doesn't pass the Bar on the third try. Bet she will still be able to attract a shit ton of clients and lots of firms will still want to hire her.

Wow, she's really gone from the Boies Schiller website. She was definitely there last week.

If I ran a legal tabloid I would do nothing but investigate this.

102,

Writing a best-selling book is not proof of any talent. EW, having written some meandering, self-involved, whiny tripe that was eaten up by people whose thoughts are dominated by meandering, self-involved, whiny tripe can say she joined the ranks of other bestsellers like these:

Several professional wrestlers who wrote autobiographies

Every single book churned out by L. Ron Hubbard/Scientology

Countless political hatchet jobs by no-talent hacks appealing to the excited sensibilities of people almost as dumb as those who gobbled up EW's pabulum

Hardly what I'd call a sign of greatness.

72: you made my day. Thank you.

51 = epic douchetard

ALL top schools let in non-english speaking types

She has crazy eyes. I proclaim her crazy.

Also Yale's average rank for bar passage over the last 6 or 7 years is 10th.

Definitely BSF partner material.

I think I know why she did not pass - here's an example of her thought process about Septmeber 11 from an article from the Toronto Globe and Mail:

"My main thought was: What a pain in the ass... I had not the slightest emotional reaction. I thought, this is a really strange art project... It was a most amazing sight in terms of sheer elegance. It fell like water. It just slid, like a turtleneck going over someone's head... It was just beautiful. You can't tell people this. I'm talking to you because you're Canadian... I just felt like everyone was overreacting. People were going on about it. That part really annoyed me... I cried about all the animals left there in the neighborhood... I think I have some kind of emotional block. I think I should join some support group for people who were there... You know what was really funny? After the fact, like, all these different writers were writing these things about what it was like, and nobody bothered to call me."

She also got fired from a job at the Dallas Morning News for plagiarism. While I'm sure that someone at Yale thought that intorducing some nice eye candy to the legal profession would be helpful, Yale has once again shown just how arrogant it is by inflicting this person on the rest of us who actuially care about practicing law.

Boies Schiller doesn't look that good either for employing this person. Hopefully her only task is to sit very, very still all day and not talk to any clients to pervent the confused dribble that passes for her thoughts from being attributed to her employer. After looking at the associates on their website, however, they seem to need the eye candy so I'm willing to cut them a break....

107: Awesome. Christ that women is a tool.

Ms. Wurtzel does not seem to share the same urgency that others have regarding the importance of passing the bar exam. Perhaps she doesn't take the legal profession or her career too seriously. Perhaps she writes about topics that have nothing to do with the law.

Does that mean she's a bad person?

Does that mean that we should heap criticism on her very existence?

The more I read ATL, the more I realize that ATL readers seem obsessed with criticizing everything. Whether it be Elie's writing, the topics, or the subjects of articles. It becomes clear to me that for many ATL readers the only form of self-affirmation available is by belittling others and highlighting their own greatness because they went to a top ten school. If graduating from a top ten school and going to work for a top law firm is the highlight of your life, it speaks volumes.

I knew a man who spent over fifty years running a newstand. When he died over 1,200 people attended his funeral including two former mayors and a number of sports figures. Why? Because the man always had a kind word for everyone.

And yes, I passed the NY bar exam. I don't think it's a great feat; however, I don't belittle others who considered it more challenging.

who?

118 - your points are valid. however, it's also fair to say that she, having taken an associate position at a firm, should take legal profession and her career seriously. and i imagine that the firm felt the same way. otherwise, why even bother working at a firm or sitting for the NY bar exam? research for her next book?

Joke's on Y, and now on BSF. When I first read her statement in Comment 116, I thought it was insensitive to the people who lost loved ones, and frankly, unpatriotic. But I quickly realized that it was just a pathetic attempt to draw attention to herself by saying something shocking because she's got nothing else to offer (see also her plagiarism). One J.D. later, she still has nothing to offer, either as a writer or a lawyer, and the death throes of her "career" continue.

If you look like her, who cares if she passed or not. She is HOT!

Co-sign 121.

Wow - Yale doesn't prepare its students for the NY bar exam? Well, I didn't go to Yale - but I also didn't go to most of my classes in law school. If I did I was either playing pinball, Snood, Text Twist, brickbreaker or some other game that would keep me occupied. The same pretty much took over bar review. I didn't read the reviews, didn't make an outline, but I passed.

The bar exam is hard, everyone knows that, so if you're not lucky with retention and decide to "have a good time" instead of study, I guess you deserve to fail. That said, who cares, I agree with some other posters - she's way too hot to worry about whether she passed the bar or not - I mean, how many times did JFK, Jr. fail?

Wurtzel: Hot?

Not!

Check out the various color, candid, un-retouched pictures of her on the web. The book cover is clearly an idealized version of her.

Wurtzel: Hot?

Not!

Check out the various color, candid, un-retouched pictures of her on the web. The book cover is clearly an idealized version of her.

118: Thank you for your thoughtful, sensical post (I was getting worried until I read it).

Let me get this straight - if I write a novel about cutting myself which is made up of 80 percent self-absorbed pablum, I can get a job at a big law firm AND the opportunity to write moronic Op-Ed pieces in the NYT without even passing the bar? Man, I wish I go do-over my life.