Sixty-Five-Year-Old Man Takes Bar Exam The bar prep routine has changed in the past ten days, following my completion of the outlines and lectures for all the exam subjects. More time is devoted to taking practice MBE tests, including one on Monday on which I used a bubble answer sheet as I will on the […]
Sixty-Five-Year-Old Man Takes Bar Exam Last week thousands of recent law school graduates across the country began their bar review courses. If you’ve been reading my posts, then you know that I started my review two months ago, in March. As the bar exam is at the end of July and I started near the […]
I recently posited that if Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin and I.R.S. Commissioner Charles Rettig did not comply with House Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal’s request for various tax returns related to President Trump, then the preferred remedy would be seeking a writ of mandamus in court, rather than a Congressional finding of […]
Congratulations, You’ve Earned that J.D. or LL.M.! I feel a special kinship to those of you who will receive your hoods tomorrow. You entered the College of Law nearly three years ago, in a period of tumult in the leadership of the college. Time and time again so many of you have shown us the […]
Sixty-Five-Year-Old Man Takes Bar Exam A few weeks ago I wrote that I was concerned about having to write out the Multistate Performance Test (MPT), rather than being able to use my computer. Last week I gave that issue more thought. The letter to applicants I received, which addressed the use of computers on the […]
Sixty-Five-Year-Old Man Takes the Bar Exam I am pleased to report that MPRE scores were released yesterday, and I passed! That is the first big step on my path to bar admission. Another discussion of ethics will take place when I have my interview with an applicant review panel of a district bar association in […]
You said you wanted to see the Mueller Report. It’s here, and there is only one sound response. The public version of the redacted report released today by the Department of Justice makes clear that President Trump’s campaign received aid from Russia, and whether or not the campaign or president conspired with the Russians, they […]
Sixty-Five-Year-Old Man Takes the Bar Exam The Uniform Bar Exam, or UBE, which North Carolina began administering this year, has three components. In order of administration they are the Multistate Performance Test (MPT), given over three hours on the morning first day, the Multistate Essay Examination, given over three hours the afternoon of the first […]
Many Happy Returns Congressman Richard Neal (D-MA), Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, this week sent a letter to Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Charles Rettig, requesting individual tax returns of President Trump and the returns of several Trump-related organizations. As one would have expected, the president is pushing back at the request in […]
Sixty-Five-Year-Old-Man Takes Bar Exam To be honest, it’s more like “Hello, old task.” Having completed the MPRE a week ago, the following day I started my bar review course. Most graduating law students begin bar review a week or two after leaving law school. This gives them about 8 weeks of intense study before taking […]