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 […]
In 1876, more or less, Alexander Graham Bell shouted to his assistant, “Watson, I need you!” At least that is what Don Ameche led me to believe when I watched his portrayal of Bell in a movie first released well before I was born. In addition to giving us the telephone, Bell birthed one of […]
Sixty-Five-Year-Old Man Takes Bar Exam Last week I, and many others taking bar review courses, completed a simulated exam. This comprises two Multistate Performance Test assignments over three hours on day one, six essay questions in three hours the same day, and two three-hour sessions with 100 multiple choice questions each on a second day. […]
Sixty-Five-Year-Old Man Takes Bar Exam I’ve noted on Facebook that for the past few months my wife and I have been renovating our former home to which we will return. She’s actually done some of the work, such as removing wallpaper. Most of the rest is being done by various contractors. Since I am still […]
In May I drafted a complaint, mostly for fun and to do a little venting, seeking a writ of mandamus to compel production following the secretary’s refusal to comply with the demand for the returns. Here is the real deal, filed today in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
Sixty-Five-Year-Old Man Takes Bar Exam I’ve been regularly using personal computers since the early 1980’s. I took a typing class at the local community college while I was in law school, although I quit attending before we got to the number keys row. So I often look at the keyboard when I am typing numbers […]
Sixty-Five-Year-Old Man Takes Bar Exam As I mentioned in my last post, my exam review time is now taken up mostly with practice tests, both multiple choice questions like the ones in the MBE and essay questions like those in the MEE. I’m also writing on average two MPT responses per week. I’m pleased to […]
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 […]
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 […]