The Fear Factors: Fifteen Reasons Why Applicants Fail the Bar Exam.
From time-to-time law school graduates take a much needed breath of relief after law school graduation. Three or four years of continuous hard work can take a toll on most of us, especially over that length of of time. We sometimes forget that the "lawyering process" starts all over again after graduation. Taking the bar exam is almost like taking the LSATs over again. You need a good enough score on the LSAT to enter law school. And you need a good enough score in order to pass the bar so that you can hang out a shingle to express to the world that you are a lawyer.
When you remind yourself that you are only applying to be a member of a state bar, it keeps you on your p's and q's. You think about what you say, how it is said, what you write and to whom you write. You apologize without being reminded to do so, and you are careful (let's just be honest, here) not to piss anyone off. Why is that? It is because you are trying to be called into the game. You are not even a rookie yet. Right now you are just trying to be drafted.
You will take the number one spot, but you don't have to go early in the draft to be successful. All you need to do is score well. But please don't forget that. Okay? You should already understand, "how we do it," in the legal world.
But if you don't, just flip the script and pretend like you are a bar examiner. Wouldn't you want well organized paragraphs, easy to read writing, sentences that made sense, no water or juice spills on the booklet, a logical, cohesive, lawyerlike answer to the problem you are grading.
Honestly, wouldn't you be interested in reading the writing in a bluebook that was double-spaced, where the applicant did not try to cram two lines of words into one line. Wouldn't you prefer a reference to a footnote (in the body of the writing) when the applicant had to include additional material instead of a series of arrows pointing to the extra text.
I mean, wouldn't you?
You will take the number one spot, but you don't have to go early in the draft to be successful. All you need to do is score well. But please don't forget that. Okay? You should already understand, "how we do it," in the legal world.
But if you don't, just flip the script and pretend like you are a bar examiner. Wouldn't you want well organized paragraphs, easy to read writing, sentences that made sense, no water or juice spills on the booklet, a logical, cohesive, lawyerlike answer to the problem you are grading.
Honestly, wouldn't you be interested in reading the writing in a bluebook that was double-spaced, where the applicant did not try to cram two lines of words into one line. Wouldn't you prefer a reference to a footnote (in the body of the writing) when the applicant had to include additional material instead of a series of arrows pointing to the extra text.
I mean, wouldn't you?
No comments:
Post a Comment