Starting Out By Giving Back

Adventures of an Older New Attorney North Carolina’s Rules of Professional Conduct encourage attorneys to provide fifty hours of pro bono publico (“for the good of the public”) service per year. Many states have a similar provision, and some require attorneys to report their pro bono service, while they do not mandate that such service […]

Why, Ken?

Sixty-Five-Year-Old Man Takes Bar Exam While I wait for the results of last month’s marathon test, I thought that I’d give you the answers to a question that friends and family have been asking me since I started on this journey last winter: Ken, after leaving law practice three decades ago and building a successful […]

The Final Lessons

Sixty-Five-Year-Old Man Takes Bar Exam A week after completing the Uniform Bar Exam, I am working on what for me is the last step of persuading the state that I know enough to be granted a license to be a lawyer. The UBE tests general concepts of law, not those applicable in any specific jurisdiction. […]

First Day Report

Sixty-Five-Year-Old Man Takes Bar Exam One might think that I would have tired of typing earlier today, following six hours of entering essay answers on my notebook computer. Surprisingly, I have a little typing strength left before I hit the sack. I awoke at 5:15 this morning and following the usual grooming, a quick walk […]

The Final Countdown

Sixty-Five-Year-Old Man Takes Bar Exam First, let’s set the appropriate musical accompaniment for this post: Next, let’s say those adoring fans are the tens of thousands of recent law grads and other bar admission candidates, such as myself, who are taking a bar exam next Tuesday and Wednesday. Now I’ve set the mood. The above […]