Imagine that you’re anxiously waiting to receive the results of the Texas bar exam. Your mind is slowly unraveling. You need to know if you passed, and the wait is destroying you. You know the results are supposed to be released on Friday, but you just can’t take it anymore. It’s almost time, and the wait is killing you. Maybe they’ll post the results early. Maybe? Please? Come on, this is driving you crazy. You’ve started incessantly checking your email like a maniac on the off chance that you’ll find you results in your inbox.
HOLY CRAP. Wait a second… what’s that in your email? GASP! It’s from the Texas Board of Law Examiners. It says there’s important information waiting for you. It’s the same email address they use to send out the results. OH MY GOD, OH MY GOD, OH MY GOD. The results are finally here!
Did you pass? Did you pass? DID YOU PASS?!
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Nope, it’s a f*cking survey.
This is the nightmarish experience that people who sat for the Texas bar exam this summer have been experiencing this week. Bar examinees received this incredibly ill-timed email from the Board of Law Examiners:
Dear [Would-be Lawyer Worrywort],
Please return to your homepage at https://ble.texas.gov/ and login to your account. Important information and/or documentation has been sent to you by the Texas Board of Law Examiners.
Regards,
Texas Board of Law Examiners
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When test-takers logged into their accounts, this is the “important information and/or documentation” they found (click to enlarge):
It’s a survey asking law school graduates questions about how they studied for the bar.
Perhaps the Texas Board of Law Examiners should have sent this email at a different time. This is incredibly tone deaf. People are losing their minds while they wait for the results of the bar exam, and this was a huge, insensitive tease. Everything really is bigger in Texas, including the douchebaggery. Please don’t ever do this to people again. It’s just cruel. In the words of one of our sources, “F*CK YOU TEXAS.”
UPDATE (11/2/17): In what we shall refer to as “F*CK YOU TEXAS: The Reckoning,” it seems that the Board of Law Examiners has now posted a link on its website to the July 2017 pass list, but when you click on it, it says NOT AVAILABLE. The entire website now seems to be down. What the HELL is wrong with you? Are you actively trying to kill these would-be lawyers?
UPDATE (11/2/17, 1:30 P.M.): The full pass list has now been posted, and you can access it by clicking here.
Staci Zaretsky has been an editor at Above the Law since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Twitter or connect with her on LinkedIn.