Bar Exams
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Alex Kozinski, Bar Exams, Fast Food, McKool Smith, Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 07.29.10
* Hans Bader of CEI is fine with the bar exam — congrats to everyone who just finished, by the way — but wants to ditch the requirement of graduating from law school. After all, “[e]ven students who seldom studied, and reputedly were on drugs, managed to graduate from my alma mater, Harvard Law School.” […] -
Bad Ideas, Bar Exams, California
A Lasting Impression from the California Bar
Mirrors on the ceiling, The pink champagne on ice And she said ‘We are all just prisoners here, of our own device’ And in the master’s chambers, They gathered for the feast They stab it with their steely knives, But they just can’t kill the beast For many takers of the bar exam, the ordeal […] - Sponsored
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Bar Exams, Screw-Ups, Technology
Bar Exam Open Thread: So, How Was It -- Or How's It Going?
For those of you who are done with the July 2010 bar exam, congratulations! For those of you who still have another day left, our condolences — and good luck. No administration of the bar is complete without some sort of mishap. The latest tale of woe comes from California. The state that some have […]
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Bar Exams
Good Luck to All Bar Takers!
The bar exam begins tomorrow for many of you (e.g., those of you in Above the Law’s home jurisdiction of New York). To those of you sitting for the test tomorrow, we wish you the best of luck. To quote the Facebook status update of a lawyer who has been through the ordeal (and survived): […] -
Bar Exams, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Lunacy
A Bar Exam Parody / Hypothetical, Courtesy of Elizabeth Wurtzel
For some of you, the bar exam starts tomorrow. Your friends at Above the Law — and our bar-related advertisers, including Kaplan PMBR and BarMax — wish you the best of luck. If you’re looking for more review questions, check out our post from yesterday, based on Professor Laurence Tribe’s unfortunate incident at a Safeway […] -
Bar Exams, Laurence Tribe, Law Professors, Lawsuit of the Day
Potential Lawsuit / Bar Exam Review Question of the Day: Laurence Tribe v. Safeway?
Last Sunday, the eminent constitutional law scholar Laurence Tribe and his girlfriend, Elizabeth Westling, got stuck in an elevator at the Safeway supermarket in Georgetown. (Professor Tribe is currently in D.C. to serve in the administration of his former student from Harvard Law School, Barack Obama.) Read the (rather humorous) write-up of Tribe’s elevator incident […] -
Bar Exams, Quote of the Day, Television
Quote of the Day: More Bar Exam Advice
Come on, it’s easy! You just shove all that stuff in your head, you write down your answers, and forget it the next day. Learn on the job like everybody else. — Sheriff Andy Bellefleur of True Blood, trying to allay Jason Stackhouse’s fears of taking the written exam to become a sheriff’s deputy. -
Bar Exams, Rape, Sex
Bar Exam Question of the Day: Sex By Trick?
An Israeli court has convicted an Arab man of rape on very interesting grounds. Haaretz reports: Sabbar Kashur, 30, had consensual sex with a woman after he posed as a Jewish bachelor interested in a long-term relationship. When the woman found Kashur was not a Jew but an Arab, she filed a police complaint that […] - Sponsored
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Bar Exams
One Person's Guide to Passing the Bar with Minimal Effort
We are getting very close to bar exam time. Some of you might be thinking that there’s not enough time left. Some of you might be resigned to the fact that you will fail the bar and all your friends will know about it and make jokes about you when you’re not in the room. […] -
Bar Exams, Goldman Sachs, Non-Sequiturs, Rod Blagojevich
Non-Sequiturs: 07.16.10
* Studying for the bar? Here are the top 10 people you want to kill. [Legally Noted] * Are the Mel Gibson tapes admissible in court? Here is one lawyer’s opinion. [Blogonaut] * Goldman Sachs won’t take a tax deduction on its $550 million settlement with the SEC. [TaxProf Blog] * Holy Hotties, Batman! West […] -
Bar Exams, Elizabeth Wurtzel, John Yoo, Law Schools, Richard Epstein
John Yoo, Richard Epstein, and Liz Wurtzel Walk Into a Bar....
… or talk about the bar. Welcome to one of those “only on the internet” moments, a spirited debate between three people I adore: Elizabeth Wurtzel, Richard Epstein, and John Yoo. The subject: the bar exam (but also law schools and the legal profession more generally). Here’s one thing the three share in common: they’re […] -
Bar Exams, Biglaw, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Hotties, Kathleen Sullivan, Law Schools
Elizabeth Wurtzel: Not A Fan of the Bar Exam
The fabulous Elizabeth Wurtzel — the bestselling and critically acclaimed writer, who graduated from Yale Law School and is now a litigatrix at the powerhouse known as Boies Schiller — has a bone to pick with the bar exam. In a recent post on the blog of the Brennan Center — an organization that we […] -
Bar Exams, Law Schools
What One Mizzou Grad Learned in Law School
Bar takers, the big day approacheth. We hope you’ve given up alcohol, television, Facebook, and daily showers, and are making progress on packing as much law into your brains as the remaining time allows. We’ve offered you lots of advice here at ATL: how to go through BAR/BRI faster, how to fail the BAR/BRI midterm […]
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Navigating Financial Success by Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Maximizing Firm Performance
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The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
ChatGPT ushers in the age of generative AI – even for law firms.
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Bar Exams, Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day: Gr8 Advice 4 U Bar Takers :-0
Quality of writing counts…. Excessive use of abbreviations, such as symbols, acronyms and text-talk, may result in score reduction. — An announcement to July 2010 Illinois bar exam candidates, posted on IBABY.org (“Illinois Board of Admissions to the Bar … and You”). -
Bar Exams, BARBRI
Bar Exam Studying: Open ThreadJust three weeks left until the big day!
Fourth of July weekend is behind us. And we all know what that means: if you’re studying for the July 2010 bar exam, it’s time to buckle down and focus. There are just three weeks left until your date with destiny. Looking over our recent posts about the bar exam, we see higher-than-average numbers of […] -
Bar Exams, BARBRI
How to Fail the BAR/BRI Midterm and Still Pass on the First Try
It’s about the time of year when students studying for the bar exam are gearing up for one of the big BAR/BRI practice tests: the midterm. Many, many people report that they only really step up their study efforts after the 4th of July — and the reason for that is usually a disappointing score […] -
Bar Exams, Hotties, Reality TV, Skaddenfreude, Television
Reality TV Star Victoria, of Downtown Girls, Fails the Bar Exam
MTV has sunk low. Really low. Its newest program, Downtown Girls — a reality TV show about a group of hot girls living in TriBeCa — is using the New York bar exam as a dramatic narrative hook. We wrote before about the law grad on the show in our post: Why Unemployed Lawyers Shouldn’t […] -
Bar Exams, BARBRI, Technology
BAR/BRI Like It Oughta Be
Did you enjoy your BAR/BRI lecture today? Do you wish it could have gone just a little bit faster? You are not alone. A tipster reports that he too is bored to death by the interminable BAR/BRI lectures, and he’s not going to take it anymore: After starting my Barbri Evidence lecture yesterday, I realized […] -
Bar Exams, Hotties, Reality TV, Romance and Dating, Television
Why Unemployed Lawyers Shouldn't Go On Reality TV Shows -- Exhibit A: Victoria, of MTV's Downtown Girls
With job prospects bleak and the allure of fleeting fame high, some lawyers have considered sending their résumés to reality TV show casting companies instead of legal recruiters. But competition is tough in the realm of trashy television, too. One unemployed New York lawyer is living the reality TV star dream. Meet Victoria. She is […] -
Bar Exams, Politics, Technology
Will the DC Bar Soon Be Adding You as a Friend?
Earlier this week, I interviewed Darrell Mottley and Laura Possesky, the two candidates for president-elect of the DC Bar. Motley is a shareholder at Banner Witcoff, LTD, and Possesky is a partner at Gura & Possesky, PLLC. Running for president-elect of the DC Bar means they are running for president as well, because the president-elect […]