TEH BAR EXAM

my sister is taking it!

good luck noize lawyers

GOOD LUCK!!!

You are so gonna smash it though

Also - get the fuck off ILX! It's for own good. When come back bring success.

I heard that if you go to law school in Wisconsin and you stay to lawyer in Wisconsin, you don't have to take the bar :/

good luck cutty!

Isn't like a 60% a passing grade or something?

wait does dean gullberry esq have to take it, too?

you arent supposed to study day before, thats why im here.. studying a litle

my god you're a pro

http://www.abovethelaw.com/2007/07/the_bar_exam_a_list_of_famous_1.php

good thing im not famous

http://www.prefixmag.com/media/holy-hail/born-of-a-star-video/3347

That drummer spends too much money on clothes and he looks too good.

Do you get clothes comped? I know somebody in a touring Bay Area-based pop punk emo band (ha!) and they get lots of clothes and shit.

ABOVETHELAW.COM HAS MY VOTE FOR BEST URL.

yes, i have received free clothing in my day

"in my day" what are you 50 years old?

older than you

how old?

i am 28 :/

I'm older than that!

are you reilly

no one is older than 28

I wish I was 28

Golden days

the summers seemed to go on forever

and the fashions were wild and daring

28 is almost 30!

http://www.abovethelaw.com/images/entries/drudge%20siren.gif

I'm almost 30

28 seems young to be a lawyer

I asked Kyle what to expect from my early 30s and he said "bloody stool, bloody urine, hair loss, loss of libido, looks of disdain from women".

i am experiencing the exact opposite

healthy stool?

unchecked hair gain?

hair growth?

xp haha

i won't be a doctor until i'm 32.

i'll start a thread about it.

j/k that would be awful

I thought this was about the bar exam?

don't worry, I won't be anything when I'm 32.

what sort of lawyer does cutty want to be i wonder?

I know what sort of lawyer cutty wants to be

http://www.makezine.com/blog/284856262_51893cdf42.jpg

http://babypoobarellah.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/man_suit_bike.jpg
http://www.ski-epic.com/amsterdam_bicycles/po1b_amsterdam_bicycle_suit.jpg
http://images.jupiterimages.com/common/detail/44/36/22683644.jpg

:D

32 is really not that old
esp if you've been wearing sunscreen since you were a kid and if you are not an alcoholic and are not a 32-yr-old worried abt being 32

good!

this thread is making me feel insecure not so much about growing older but about having no desire to go to lawyering/doctoring/graduate school of any kind

wait a minute the crossover betw. this thread and NN is uncanny. it's cos we're all type A assholes right?

NN is a noize approved thread, this is teh noize bar exam thread

lawyers = noize

i want to go to law school~

― how rad bandit (gbx), Saturday, November 7, 2009 12:52 PM

i think about this a lot.

my brother is taking the LSAT next month
i tried to tell him not to but he didn't listen

work on yr oral argument skillz

dude it's her brother

I think I might take the LSAT for fun in December.

no offense but ur an idiot

umm gbx do you maybe wanna I dunno finish doctor skool first?

lol now you are makin me wanna take it, too!

it's ok to take it if you actually want to go but if you don't study for it (especially practicing a bunch of logic problems) you're gonna do bad and the score follows you forever. it's also expensive to take.

well maybe not forever, 5 years or something? but if you take it again because of low score, schools can see both of them and they don't just take the highest one.

i would probably not do it this dec but i dunno... maybe in the future some day...

it's not something you do just to see how you'll do or just to have around
yeah it's kinda too late to decide to do it in december too!

it's not something you do just to see how you'll do or just to have around
you could... it would be an expensive thing but it's probably not that out there for a lot of people.

you *could*

umm gbx do you maybe wanna I dunno finish doctor skool first?

MD/JD is a powerful combination, but do you really want that much schooling? There's also a big potential burn-out factor, I imagine. And a lot of debt and delay in starting your career. It would make more sense to me if you were trying to avoid the draft.

you lawyers are so serious!

we don't like when other people become lawyers

just saying it would be a silly to take it w/o doing the prep, and a waste to study if you weren't at least seriously considering law school (nb i didn't take a course but i would have totally bombed it if i didn't do loads of practice)

i have been considering law school since i finished undergrad... lol.

then maybe u should take it, but def not in december!

i took it in late september but i think i started studying in july or august. then i applied in january and february.

hey ilxor lawyers: you should all participate in this http://www.vlany.org/aboutus/index.php

I briefly considered getting JD and doing IP lawyering; thank god for once I listened to my parents and actually *worked* in IP first and promptly discovered that I would sooner die than prepare patent applications.

I still think law school would be a very interesting experience, but a lawyer friend once described it as basically trade school, and that one should not bother with law school unless one fully intended to be an actual lawyer.

Thanks for that link. I'd be happy to help. Actually, I used to be on the board of directors for a group of "young professionals" that supported the Florida Grand Opera, but I drifted away from it.

(xp)

Litigating IP issues is interesting. It's a tough -- and a glutted -- area, tho.

people always assumed i wanted to do IP lawyering bc of science background but it's totally not for me

lol i love patent prosecution but i don't have the scientific background to be a patent attorney and being a paralegal is not enough for me.

i think i would seriously hate law school, but being a lawyer would be great. there are probably a lot of law-related things i can do in my field without being a lawyer, but it wouldn't pay as well.

Yeah, a law degree is helpful in many fields, even if you don't become a lawyer.

Thanks for that link. I'd be happy to help. Actually, I used to be on the board of directors for a group of "young professionals" that supported the Florida Grand Opera, but I drifted away from it.

(xp)

― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, November 8, 2009 8:58 PM (14 minutes ago)

ie, u got old

:)

awww <3 daniel, esq. for volunteering services!

I am old. Sometimes I feel like it was just yesterday that I was young, but it's been a while now.

i was jk daniel!! :(

I know.

No worries.

harbl parse the bah

i think i would seriously hate law school, but being a lawyer would be great.

lol i am the opposite---my sister has told me repeatedly that i would loooooooooooove law school and HATE being a lawyer

and honestly that is the main appeal right now: grass is greener on the other side of the mississippi river (west bank: LAW, east bank: MEDICINE). my brane is more lawyery than it is doctory, by default, and while i know it is not true, the rigors of law school seem down right relaxing compared to the shit we're expected to do at the moment.

mostly i'm keen because we had some medical malpractice lectures last week (and some more coming up) and it was like a breath of fresh air compared to the usual med lecture

An old acquaintance of mine taught a medical malpractice seminar at my law school. The class consisted of 50% law students and 50% medical students. When hypothetical cases were discussed, the law students looked to attribute blame (e.g., "Something went horribly wrong here, and someone is responsible for it"), and the medical students were more likely to view it via systems analysis (e.g., "In an overtaxed system, something is bound to go wrong sometimes -- regardless of how qualified the caregivers are or how many safeguards are built into the system -- so it's not productive to go on a witch hunt to attribute blame"). He said it was the most interesting class he'd ever taught.

DUTY BREACH CAUSE DAMAGE

lol. You are correct, sir!

damage is what raised the most eyebrows---you can do surgery drunk and blind-folded but if it comes off successfully, you can't be charged with malpractice. you can be dealt with ~other ways, but it isn't malpractice

guys shouldnt this all be on the "going to law school" lol thread

that thread hasnt been the same since burt_stanton left us, RIP

Not that I ever would, but it would probably be pretty badass to do surgery drunk and blindfolded and have it come out successfully.

maybe on yourself

i hate med mal shit

i don't really like torts unless it's something i really care about, like kids with lead poisoning or something, being able to sue landlords. i think that would make me really happy.

I just enrolled in a June LSAT class. I am also asking myself "what am i doing"