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…
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
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.
3 Ways To Stay Awake During Your Bar Prep Class
As your bar prep course drags on, you are likely finding it harder and harder to stay awake. So weird that hours of lectures on the UCC aren’t scintillating enough to keep you fully engaged, right? Who would have guessed? And then people get all huffy if you climb over them every fifteen minutes to get fresh…
Virginia Updates Bar Exam Dress Code to "Hipster Fabulous"
The Virginia Board of Bar Examiners have enforced a strict dress code of “proper business attire” for applicants during test-taking, much to the chagrin of recent law-school grads used to taking exams in pajama pants and ratty sweatshirts. After years of criticism, the Board of Bar Examiners for the Commonwealth of Virginia has finally relented…
Bar Exam Survival Tips, Because You Need All The Help You Can Get
Throughout most of the country right now it is graduation season. Across thousands of colleges and high schools, scores of new graduates are celebrating remarkable academic accomplishments with their families, all while planning for a future full of hope and possibility. YOU on the other hand went to law school, so your graduation felt either like…
Hey Gunners: No One Thinks Your Big Words Make You Sound Smart
Back to school time means back to That Gunner Guy or That Gunner Girl dominating every class discussion by using completely unnecessary Latin terms. If you are particularly unlucky, this year That Gunner will have decided to use something like nihil peti potest ante id tempus, quo per rerum naturam persolvi posit because they are…
What Should You Call Your Lawyer Rock Band?
Last week, our lawyer-rock band was playing at a local bar. Typical classic rock cover band, but we’re all lawyers and the band name has a clever lawyer-related pun. Anyway, we’re playing our set, and then as soon as our set is over, some record label bigwig offers us a major deal. We’d finally made…
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