Bar Exams

February Exam

Posted on February 10, 2008
Dude, I can't believe somebody stole my title.Anyway, I got to see my friend WT last night and was reminded that he is taking the February Bar in California in only a little over two weeks, and I just wanted to wish all the winter takers good luck. I'm probably going to deactivate this blog soon...

I'm Writing This Post Exclusively For You, Josh...

Posted on November 15, 2007
Good luck tomorrow! I can't believe it has been yet another year... we're shepherding our first-years to the local pub at 4pm sharp for shots to ensure that no matter what the 6pm result may be, it'll be aaaaaaall gooooooood.BTW if any of my friends who work downtown and still have me on RSS will be taking their own first-years out, give me a shout...

Bar Exam LOLcats

Posted on July 12, 2007
Hi everybody,I just had to come out of deep freeze to post this link that my favorite summer associate was kind enough to forward to me: Bar Exam LOLcatsGood luck in a coupla weeks!UPDATED SEPT 2007: Thanks to this post, this blog is now YOUR #1 SOURCE for quality Bar Exam LOLcat links according to Google...

Hi

Posted on March 10, 2007
As I am occasionally wont to do, I just did a Technorati search on this blog and found that apparently people preparing for the 2007 Bar are still checking out my archives and reading this blog, which is really cool and was always my intent in leaving it up here...

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Hot Hot Heat

Posted on July 24, 2006
Um, I don't know if anyone will see this but I just realized that the July Bar starts tomorrow, and it occurred to me that some people travelling from outside California to take the exam might not be familiar with the fact that our state's power supply is about as reliable as India's...

Pics Redacted

Posted on July 02, 2006
When I finished posting to this blog I decided to just leave it up because I thought future Bar takers might find it entertaining, and I assumed (1) no one is going to recognize me from it and (2) even if they did, why would they give a shit?But after a random stranger came up to me in public recently and told me that they recognized me from the blog *in front of my co-workers* and I was forced to explain, "Yeah it's really stupid but I used to write this blog blah blah blah," and I felt like an idiot, and I realized that that's just what I need, to be on some transaction and have somebody recognize me from the blog and out me in front of a partner or something...

Hi!

Posted on June 01, 2006
While checking the stats for my current blog, I happened to notice that this one was getting like a thousand hits a day again and I realized that it's because all y'all have started studying for the 2006 Bar and I'm sure doing all sorts of Google searches that end up leading you here...

Please Do -NOT- Email Me

Posted on February 12, 2006
I intentionally do not list an e-mail address anywhere on this blog, and turned off the comments a long time ago because people were using them as a means to direct questions about studying for the Bar Exam to me personally. So why on earth do some people think I would want them to figure out my e-mail address by whatever means and e-mail me a question? I'm working at a large law firm now, and having long passed the Bar, I don't think about it anymore...

Comments Off, Bye!

Posted on January 06, 2006
The comments are now off for reals (although you can still view the old comments)... but regular readers of this blog know where to find me!Bye and thanks for reading!

Move Along, Nothing to See Here

Posted on December 09, 2005
For some reason, even though I stopped posting, this blog still gets hundreds (literally) of hits per day. Why? I have no idea. I think they must mainly be Google searches. But anyway, now I can direct anyone who came here looking for a *live* Bar Exam journal over to my friend's new blog, where the party is just getting started:go west, young (wo)manShe just started studying for the February administration of the California Bar, and I happen to know that she is an excellent writer...

Guy Who Passed After Taking the CalBar 47 Times

Posted on December 06, 2005
I remember noticing once that quite a few people come to this blog via Google searches on some variation of "person who passed after taking the bar [x] number of times." After reading this WSJ story about how Kathleen Sullivan, a prominent attorney and former Stanford dean failed this July* (she had been licensed in NY and Massachussets already, obviously), I think I can provide you with the information you are looking for: "Ms...

From the CalBar Website

Posted on November 21, 2005
STATE BAR ANNOUNCES RESULTS FOR JULY 2005 CALIFORNIA BAR EXAMINATIONSan Francisco, November 17, 2005 ? The State Bar of California's Committee of Bar Examiners reported today that 48.8 percent of the applicants passed the July 2005 General Bar Examination (GBX)...

One Last Thing.

Posted on November 20, 2005
It's bad enough when people you feel you "know" via their blogs didn't pass, but it's even worse when someone you actually know in real life doesn't pass.Now that the list is public, I just happened to notice that my friend's name isn't on there. I haven't talked to him since before the Bar (yes I am a horrible friend), but he's somebody who sat with Loyal Friend & Co-Worker Ballzac and I every day in BarBri and who never failed to cheer me up or make me less bored out of my mind...

P.S. See You in Hell, Flashcards!

Posted on November 20, 2005

"You May Justly Be Proud of Your Achievement"

Posted on November 19, 2005
I can't believe it already came in the mail. It's finally there on a piece of paper... it's OVER!Thank you from the bottom of my heart to everyone who posted encouraging comments or even just bothered to read my ramblings, and to all the other Bar Exam bloggers who helped keep me sane...

And This is What Relief Looks Like

Posted on November 19, 2005
[pics redacted]

How Do You Spell Relief?

Posted on November 18, 2005

E-mail From a Friend

Posted on November 18, 2005
"You are going to check at work? No way I'd do that. I'm probably not checking till 7:00 and then I'll make sure I'm two beers in and at home, clutching the third."

Correspondence With LF&CWB, Who Works in a Different Regional Office of Our Firm

Posted on November 18, 2005
-----Original Message-----From: Loyal Friend & Co-Worker BalzacSent: Fri Nov 18 08:32:28 2005To: MeSubject: THE SHIRT is on.(EOM)-----Original Message-----From: MeSent: Friday, November 18, 2005 8:56 AMTo: Loyal Friend & Co-worker BalzacSubject: RE: THE SHIRT is on...

My Two Cents

Posted on November 18, 2005
I feel like I have to throw in a bit of my own worthless personal advice for everybody getting results tomorrow. So here it is. If you get bad news, don't beat yourself up about what you could have done differently or whether you didn't study hard enough or how maybe you would have passed if you had just done X...

HOLY SHIT, is it Really Tomorrow?

Posted on November 17, 2005
Seriously? I've been thinking all day that today was Wednesday. Then I just had to put a date on a document and saw that results come out TOMORROW!!!Ugh.Well, as a co-worker told me yesterday, "If failing the Bar Exam is the worst thing that ever happens to you, that's a pretty good life...

Comments

Posted on November 15, 2005
Blogger finally got around to adding a feature where I have to approve comments before they are visible. So the downside is that you won't see the comment you posted right away, because I have to approve it first. The upside is that it makes me comfortable allowing anyone to comment, including people who don't have a Blogger account...

Eight Bar Exams, Anyone?

Posted on November 14, 2005
I won't bore you with why I was looking up information on how you get to be an attorney in Canada (it's actually related to a project I'm on), but I came upon this website which explained:"Attaining a law degree in Canada requires three years of classroom study...

Phone Call From Mom

Posted on November 13, 2005
The readers of this blog will remember that my mother is crazy. So in place of what I didn't say, just imagine the sort of polite, non-commital reponses you would give to someone who you can't really get annoyed with because she is a crazy person, a small child, your in-laws, etc...

The "What I Did" Stories

Posted on November 12, 2005
Suggestions to us first-years from co-workers at the firm happy hour last night:1. One person wanted to be at work and go out with her friends afterward if she passed, but didn't want to be in the office if she failed. So she pretended to leave, came back, and hid under her desk, and checked from there...

Getting a Mite Nervous, Are We?

Posted on November 10, 2005
I happened to notice that the traffic for this blog was going way up, so I decided to amuse myself with the search referrers... I guess we can all tell results are coming out soon...Google: making a mistake on the bar examGoogle: "july 2005 bar exam"Google: MBE Ca scoresGoogle: california bar exam results 2005 Google: what to say to someone about failing the bar exam etiquetteGoogle: When do the NY bar results come out?Google: Nervous about California Bar Exam resultsGoogle: calbar "pass list" julyYahoo: new york bar exam and MBE cut off scoreGoogle: blog "Bar results" And of course, the obligatoryMSN Search: girl shaving sex with animals