It's a wrap

July 28, 2005

After coming home from Day 2 to decompress, I found out about blackouts on Wednesday night in Brooklyn and realized how lucky I was. Had the blackout hit here, I probably wouldn't have made it to the MBE on time.

My A/C alarm clock does not have a battery backup. My parents supplied the backup wake-up call (with the personal touch), but my home phone is a cordless phone that needs power to work. I leave my cell phone on vibrate, so I probably would not have heard it ring. While plugging two alarm clocks into a UPS might be going a little overboard, I would recommend at the very least, setting a backup, battery-powered alarm, such as the one in a mobile phone.

Was I the only person who did a quasi-statistical analysis of the number of A, B, C and D answers on the MBE?

Speaking of the MBE, perhaps they go a little overboard with the dire warnings about the consequences of disclosing the contents of the questions and answers?

Law.com reports on a lawsuit against PMBR by the National Conference of Bar Examiners: Firm Accused of Copying Multistate Bar Examination Test Questions

In the suit, NCBE claims that employees of Multistate Legal Studies Inc. have attended bar exams in several states for the sole purpose of copying questions to be used in its prep courses.

In response to the suit, lawyers for MLSI contend that the similarities between the questions in their prep courses and those on the MBE stem from the fact that both are drawn from the same pool of material -- hornbooks, law treatises and case law -- and that such similarity is entirely permissible.

Chris shares my feelings about the whole bar exam hazing process: Taking the Bar Exam & Rant: "I gotta say, this whole system of the State Bar and their weed out exam pisses me off. There's a multi-million dollar monopoly industry (BarBri/PMBR) out there that thrives on stressing law school grads out about the bar exam. That just doesn't seem right to me."

Congrats to all the other bar takers, and phooey to those who are actually going away to fun places on vacation.

The review books and notes are in the closet-- hopefully to get rid of in November, possibly to use all over again for February. Oh well, there's nothing I can do about it until November.

And now that I have a J.D. and am no longer studying for or taking the bar, I guess I am officially unemployed. Oh boy.