Sentences with phrase «about bar exams»

The group also served as a discussion forum about bar exams and the interview process, she says.

Spend time with someone you can count on not to talk about the bar exam.

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To give you an idea of the training required for this designation, «the pass rate for the exam to become a CFP certificant is about the same as the pass rate on the bar exam that law school grads are required to take in order to practice law,» she explains.

Powietrzynski, who is about to take the New York bar exam, garnered much of his support from individuals, including people in Forest Hills, other parts of the city and one from Ohio.

Iowa City, IA About Blog Find info on Election law, voting rights, legal education, the bar exam, and miscellany written by Derek T. Muller, Associate Professor of Law, Pepperdine University School of Law.

My bestie just took the BAR exam a few days ago so I've learned a lot about the process of law school the past few years.

Iowa City, IA About Blog Find info on Election law, voting rights, legal education, the bar exam, and miscellany written by Derek T. Muller, Associate Professor of Law, Pepperdine University School of Law.

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It was a little surprising to see the AFT take a stand against the edTPA teacher licensing test given President Randi Weingarten's support for similar «bar exams» for teachers, and it got me thinking about «professionalizing» teaching in general.

Hey, Randi, how about this: we institute a bar exam for teachers and then anyone who passes the exam is allowed to teach.

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Lawyers go through the standard academic legal training, pass the bar exams, nothing that unusual about that, but finding one that truly understands insurance law well is tough.

Sitting for the bar can be pricey — bar exam application fees alone range from about $ 200 to $ 1,450, depending on the state, according to the National Conference of Bar Examinebar can be pricey — bar exam application fees alone range from about $ 200 to $ 1,450, depending on the state, according to the National Conference of Bar Examinebar exam application fees alone range from about $ 200 to $ 1,450, depending on the state, according to the National Conference of Bar ExamineBar Examiners.

Iowa City, IA About Blog Find info on Election law, voting rights, legal education, the bar exam, and miscellany written by Derek T. Muller, Associate Professor of Law, Pepperdine University School of Law.

Austin, TX About Blog The State Bar of Texas Blog, offering news and information for TX lawyers & attorneys on Rule of Law, justice, law - related education, MCLE, CLE, law licenses, the Supreme Court of Texas, the Texas Bar Journal & bar exaBar of Texas Blog, offering news and information for TX lawyers & attorneys on Rule of Law, justice, law - related education, MCLE, CLE, law licenses, the Supreme Court of Texas, the Texas Bar Journal & bar exaBar Journal & bar exabar exams.

The contents are intended for 1) current and potential law students; 2) graduates reviewing for their bar exam; and 3) members of the general public interested in learning more about the law.

When coaching or speaking to lawyers about the importance of networking, the knee - jerk reaction of many is «you got ta be kidding me; I would rather take the bar exam again than network!»

The bar exam is not about knowing every section of every code or applying all the common law writs in seventeenth - century torts cases.

You attend class for three years, you article for about a year, you write the bar exams, and then you are called to the bar.

If you are not sure about taking the bar exam, then consider whether waiting it out while you explore other options makes sense.

The bar exam is about knowing and applying key basic law.

Does Sullivan's case, he asks, tell us something about her capabilities as a lawyer or about the pointlessness of the bar exam?

One bar candidate who came to me complaining about never finishing the bar exam essays turned out to be taking an extra five minutes to make a list of all the facts before he started writing.

With the bar exam just around the corner, it's probably too late to add this doozy of a fact pattern about John Mackey, the co-founder of Whole Foods who had an online pseudonym — Rahodeb — under which he posted 1,100 entries on Yahoo Finance's bulletin board touting his company's stock and also criticizing Wild Oats Markets, a rival that his company went on to buy.

Question: I'm about to take the Louisiana bar exam, and let's just say I don't have a good feeling about it.

While there is some terrific advice on how to maintain a romantic relationship during law school, what about life after the bar exam?

Since the bar exam requirement was added, only 29 lawyers have filed to be reinstated, an average of about nine per year.

The filing fee in California is about $ 1,500, in addition to the bar exam fee, says Murray B. Greenberg, a senior trial counsel at the state bar and the president of the National Organization of Bar Counsbar exam fee, says Murray B. Greenberg, a senior trial counsel at the state bar and the president of the National Organization of Bar Counsbar and the president of the National Organization of Bar CounsBar Counsel.

Mike Frisch at the Legal Profession Blog posts about this rather pathetic story of a candidate for admission to the D.C. Bar who flunked the exam a dozen times before passing (he'd also failed the Virginia exam six times)..

Though releasing a book about big - firm practice on the same day that the bar exam starts doesn't strike me as the best timing (particularly where the narrator expounds on the devastating consequences of failing the bar), the release date does allow AL to ride the coattails of recent movies like The Devil Wears Prada and other exposes of bad bosses.

Zeni, whose laptop crashed during the exam and appeared to have erased one of his essays, successfully appealed his failing score after learning about the review process from Eric Turkewitz at New York Personal Injury Lawyer, whose own exam results had been lost by the New York Bar examiners 22 years earlier.

That would be Above the Law's David Lat, whose request for anecdotes about lost bar exams inspired Turkewitz to share his own story and to cover last summer's New York bar scandal.

We've all thought about how the bar exam is a bad way, or at least an imperfect way to assess whether people are competent to practice law, but then you've also got these other trends around part - time practice, about maternity leave, about military spouses.

Your bar preparation course will teach you what you need to know about these subjects for the exam.

We wrote here last month about the about - to - be-released documentary, A Lawyer Walks into a Bar..., which follows six aspiring lawyers as they prepare for and take the California bar exBar..., which follows six aspiring lawyers as they prepare for and take the California bar exbar exam.

These last few weeks can make the difference between passing the bar exam and... well... just follow these tips and don't worry about the other outcome.

In January, I wrote a post about BarMax CA, a full - fledged preparation course for the California bar exam, delivered entirely on the iPhone.

You might think that watching a film about taking the bar exam would be about as engaging as watching people play Scrabble.

If you're taking a bar exam prep class, it ends about two weeks before the actual exam, or about two weeks from now.

It also offers candid advice about how law schools can set their students up for ethical practices long before they take the bar exam, and how young lawyers can meet the standards of decorum expected of them.

Back in February, my co-blogger, Robert Ambrogi, posted about on an upcoming documentary depicting six law school graduates and their struggle to take and pass the California bar exam.

As a new crop of law school graduates prepares for the bar exam, Joe and Elie talk to James Mullen of Law School HQ about the «last test you'll ever take.»

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If am remembering correctly, now is about the time that all you folks who took the bar exam in July should be getting your results.

There are probably more jokes about lawyers than there are actual lawyers who have passed the bar exam.

It's about time to rectify this situation and put the Bar exam in its place as the great work of jurisprudence that it is.

Almost every attorney you will ever meet will have a good story about studying for the bar exam.

Underlying the controversy about whether recent multi-state bar exams have been fair is the larger question of whether the bar admissions process is the right gate - keeping mechanism for assuring essential quality in the provision of legal services.

If you think about the cognitive thinking that goes into thinking through the questions in the bar exam, then this is really an amazing result.

UPDATE: See also this post on PrawfsBlawg about states that allow people to take the bar exam w / out attending law school.