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 […]
Sixty-Five-Year-Old Man Takes Bar Exam Yesterday I received my first written communication from the North Carolina Board of Law Examiners. The investigator assigned to my file stated that I had a nondisclosure issue. I had omitted to report on my application that I once attended classes at Florida Institute of Technology. It’s true; I had […]
Sixty-Five-Year-Old Man Takes Bar Exam In my second post of this series I mentioned that one part of the application process is completing a character and fitness questionnaire. Here are some of the questions the applicant must answer: Please provide a driving record from the DMV of each state in which you have ever been […]
Sixty-Five-Year-Old Man Takes Bar Exam I thought that for a few weeks. Bar review courses are expensive, between $1500 and almost $3,000; occasionally a promotion can make the price of some of them closer to $1,000. I thought I could review hornbooks or study aids and learn the law I need to pass the exam. […]
Just as a Friend I thought it would be easy,But it wasn’t.All I had to do was ask,But that wasn’t all. What if she wouldn’t say yes?Should I end it all?Or is it unimportant? Does she realize it’s more than a broken date?Or do I realize it’s less than a broken heart? Why does it […]
This evening I resume blogging after a hiatus of several months. I am embarking on a new project, and I plan to share the path I will undertake in that project with you, beginning in a few days. First, however, I want to take advantage of this platform, one which had not even been imagined […]