My firm paid for PMBR, so i took it.

Remember how shady that dude was?

Semi-useful lecture. I would not pay for it myself, but if its "free" its worth it as a change of pace from the library and Starbuxx.

I think he got sued for copyright issues related to copying actual questions from actual exams.

(IPgeek notes that copyright is not on the bar. I suppose that explains it)

Chemerinsky's con law hornbook was the bomb.

MY friend think its funny to grunt and say "yeah!" in spin class sometimes.

Its only like once a class, so its merely "retarded" and doesnt rise to the level of "I wanna punch him"

1:30 I think spinning is the only class at the gym that its ok for a guy to go to. Its 50/50 when I go like once or twice a month.

Its just a bike and (hopefully good) music. Crucially, no dancing is involved.

That guy deserved to be hurt.

Y'all should do the patent bar too if your so smart. THAT was an awesome time.

The saving grace is that the guy who teaches the (more popular) PLI course pretty much IS Norm McDonald.

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I thought the patent bar was more difficult, though it has less matierial and I put maybe 1/4 of the time into that as i did the NY bar. State bar stuff was stuff I was familiar with from law school largely, and you get way more instruction. Patent bar, other than 102/103 stuff, its almost %100 new and picky and procedural.

Remeber, the patent bar pass rate is like %50, and has been lower than that some years. Though granted, most people dont get 2 months to study for it full time.

I walked into the NY bar %100 confident I would pass. The patent bar I was bracing for possible failure.

ALso, anecdotally, I know a chem major + Cornell Law grad, with several years patent litigation experience, that failed the patent bar the first time. And he took like 2 weeks off to cram for it too. Was a smart guy generally as far as I could tell.

Yeah, I figured out by like the 2nd day that it wasn't really possible (or necessary) to do EVERYTHING BarBri assigns you for homework.

That said, only going to class and doign nothing else at the beginning is a dangerous move. The only people I know who failed did that.

You may think your pretty smart, but you will avoid July anxiety and generally tempting fate by doing a good amount of work the whole time.

Use flash cards, but save 'em for July.

I found consolidating my notes to be time well spent. You retain more and have a good study document for July.

Its enough to make a guy wish he had a womb.

SJP is the woman that OTHER WOMEN think is super hot, but that actual guys are less impressed by.

I might get to actually GO to some of our summer events if they would stop having them at 5:30 all the time. The little darlings can wait till 7.

Maybe its to keep attendance (and costs) down deliberately?

Folsom Prison Blues. Easy.

I love when people talk about hell.

The Lord will smite all of you, for you are wicked.

Hmmmm, sounds pretty horrible!

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The best combo is a JS + a BS in science or engineering or math. But too late for most people on these boards I guess.

Way better and harder than some flaky PolySci/history/sociology/arts and crafts/sharing your feelings major.

But perhaps im just a touch biased, hehe

To add to that maybe an MS would be better than BS. But getting a PhD in some science and THEN going to law school strikes me as awfully ineffecient. Like someone made a bad decision someplace along the line, though at least they won't want for employment.

The "conventional wisdom" I have always heard is that tax is the one and only area where an LLM is valuable, and sometimes even expected.

Friend of mine from law school got his LLM in tax and ended up with a way better tax law job than I think he was likely to get without it. I think its mid-size place. He was happy with it anyhow.