Numbers Game
For those who recently swore in to the California Bar, your bar numbers should start popping up on the website. That is all. Also, this whole bar number thing is a lot like the Stonecutters.
[For bonus points: the partner next to my office has to attend a Boy Scouts event where Jerry Mathers of Leave it to Beaver fame is the guest of honor. Please guess the appropriate TV reference that immediately came to my mind].
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In response to John Steele's question below, a review session for the MPRE is much more useful 1 week before the test rather than 2. The general consensus is that students spend a minimal amount of effort to study for the MPRE. As a result, last minute cram session works best. Second, students generally do not have access to review sessions by BAR/BRI until 3L year. This is simply because the vast majority of people end up at firms. And firms that offer to pay for bar prep courses do not do so until you accept your offer during 3L year. That's just a long way of saying that the number of students who have access to a commercial review session is not as large as you'd think.
As a personal tip, if you're the obsessive type, then read all the comments to the model ABA rules. And if you're really on an ethics binge, feel free to read and discuss this ruling by the California Supreme Court about what not to do when you see privileged docs.
[For bonus points: the partner next to my office has to attend a Boy Scouts event where Jerry Mathers of Leave it to Beaver fame is the guest of honor. Please guess the appropriate TV reference that immediately came to my mind].
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In response to John Steele's question below, a review session for the MPRE is much more useful 1 week before the test rather than 2. The general consensus is that students spend a minimal amount of effort to study for the MPRE. As a result, last minute cram session works best. Second, students generally do not have access to review sessions by BAR/BRI until 3L year. This is simply because the vast majority of people end up at firms. And firms that offer to pay for bar prep courses do not do so until you accept your offer during 3L year. That's just a long way of saying that the number of students who have access to a commercial review session is not as large as you'd think.
As a personal tip, if you're the obsessive type, then read all the comments to the model ABA rules. And if you're really on an ethics binge, feel free to read and discuss this ruling by the California Supreme Court about what not to do when you see privileged docs.
Labels: Bar Exams
posted by Armen Adzhemyan at 7:04 PM
5 Comments:
Agreed. Much better to do a review a week before the MPRE.
I didn't take it while in law school--either didn't register on time or had other things conflicting (moot court).
I took it this November. Prep consisted of reading through a Bar-Bri outline and taking a few practice tests the week before the exam. Eight hours study time tops.
The night before the exam I drove to San Antonio (I live in a podunk town, see streetsoflaredo.blogspot.com), where I drank beer and watched Unforgiven until 1am, and half-slept on a friend's floor on a partially deflated air matress.
I was surprised at how easy the whole process was after studying for the actual bar exam. Also, Bar-Bri's outline covered virtually everything in there.
Lessons: studying a ton is not necessary, and the germane info is commercially available. Also, if you don't need to be registered for the bar ASAP after law school, you can hold off taking the MPRE. Finally, Unforgiven and Bud Light gets you in a good ethical mindset.
I like this San Antonio story even better than the Suns-beating-the-Spurs-last-night San Antonio story. Well told.
That story is funny to me, because I've always had "Unforgiven" on my short list of films that shed light on legal ethics. Thanks for the suggestions about when to hold the lecture. (Regarding the notion that one can drink past midnight and pass the MPRE with flying colors, I will not comment.)
Callagy's a frickin genius, of course he can drink past midnight and pass the MPRE>
Actually, it just helps to be in a "lawyer" mindset while taking the MPRE and thus drinking late into the night before important work is warranted.
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