You’re almost two months out from taking the bar, and things are still…fuzzy. You’re sitting with a group of people you barely recognize, there’s a beverage in your hand that tastes familiar but it’s been so long you can’t quite place it, and there’s a song playing in the background that you’ve never heard before.…


The Five People You Meet at the Bar Exam
A checklist of the six types of people you’re guaranteed to meet in the bar exam room

Seven Tricks of Law School Networking 101
To prepare for gut-wrenching, mind-numbing “networking” events, here are a few exercises that can steel you for boredom, humiliation, and awkwardness.

Professor Purr Monster: Legal Lessons I Learned From My Cat
I’m not one to spend all day explaining to people how intuitive my cats are. But at the same time, I think there are a few lessons my brood has taught me over the years. I don’t just mean that they will pee on my bed in retribution for me going away for a long…

Mosquitos and the Science of Legal Nuisances
Have you ever wondered why you seem to be cursed with bad luck in your law practice? Why situations that seemed so simple turned into catastrophes? Do you often feel like a shortstop, expecting to field one grounder, and suddenly you’re pelted by balls from every direction? Why are there so many balls? When did…

The Costly Sound of Silence
Only in postmodern music can you find an entire album of someone raking their leaves. To many of us, listening to postmodern music has significantly less appeal than walking, texting, and suddenly falling down an uncovered manhole. The genre is full of musicians who inhale, wistfully ask, “What is music, anyway?” and then stare off…

4 Reasons for Law Students to be Thankful This Thanksgiving
Drinking, free food, and evil uncles. What more could you ask for over Thanksgiving?

You Will Probably Never Ever Get Disbarred
How hard is it to get completely disbarred? Apparently it is really really hard, as this attorney learned when he piled infraction upon infraction but STILL didn’t get tossed from our noble profession. Pennsylvania attorney Christopher Booth kicked off his spree of misbehavior with the usual vague-but-still-problematic neglecting cases and failing to communicate with his…

Six Last-Minute Bar Exam Tips

10 Things You Will Do While Studying for the Bar
The ten things you will almost always do during the weeks of studying for the bar exam.
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