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One Last Thing.

By G.

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.

I don't like most people. But he's somebody I like a lot. He might be the nicest, most upbeat, friendliest person I know. And he is going to have to re-take. Of course, nobody "deserves" to pass or fail, but I guess there are just some people you root a little more enthusiastically for, and he is one of them.

So the bottom line is that, while of course I am glad I passed, I'm also angry. Angry that California makes it this way. Angry that I have had to jump through so many hoops to show, not that I'm smart enough to be an attorney, but that I am a good test-taker and am good at memorizing a lot of information that is not even (in many cases) good law anymore.

I'm angry that good people are dealt serious setbacks on their chosen career paths because California can't figure out a smarter way to keep the number of lawyers in our state manageable.

And I'm angry because in the end, I'm licensed. I don't have to care anymore. I'll never do anything to change the system because hey, it worked for me, and I've got billable hours to rack up and plenty of other things to worry about. Pretty soon the Bar Exam will be a distant memory that I tell a story about to the new first-year Associates every November. I'll never get off my lazy ass and try to change the process, and neither will anyone else who passed. We're done with it.

So it just sucks. Good people who deserve better got bad news this weekend. It shouldn't have to be like this.

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Full post as published by A Girl Walks Into a Bar (Exam) on November 20, 2005 (boomark / email).