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Isentropy posted:Current final year engineering student here. Do you live in Toronto? You're looking at just under $28k/year for tuition and fees before living expenses. After that you'd need to get an articling position, pass the bar and practice for at least 10 years in litigation (civil, criminal or family). http://www.fja-cmf.gc.ca/appointments-nominations/process-regime-eng.html Zarkov Cortez fucked around with this message at 01:05 on Jul 23, 2012 |
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Baruch Obamawitz posted:I was literally first person done with the VA bar my year. I'm the same way, I think I was the first done with the LSAT, first done with GU bar, first done with MP bar, second done with WI bar (some other dude walked out halfway through, don't know if he finished or just gave up.) Didn't moonwalk out, just waited at the hotel bar and got hit on later by the girl from my Barbri class who pulled the plug on her fiancee the day before.
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Zarkov Cortez posted:Do you live in Toronto? You're looking at just under $28k/year for tuition and fees before living expenses. I (will be) living in Toronto, but thanks for the information. It seems like my background wouldn't really help me with the sort of litigation required to become a judge. Thanks for the link as well.
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Jul 23, 2012 02:24
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tomorrow i check into a hotel in okemos michigan to take the bar exam on tuesday. i am extremely nervous but i studied hard and i'm ready to go. i'm kind of excited too!
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Jul 23, 2012 03:18
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I'm ready to get this thing over with. My school has a 94% pass rate. I couldn't possibly fail.....right????!?!?!
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Jul 23, 2012 03:47
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Tetrix posted:I'm ready to get this thing over with. My school has a 94% pass rate. I couldn't possibly fail.....right????!?!?! People from Cooley Law manage to pass the bar. How the hell could you possibly fail?
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Jul 23, 2012 03:54
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You guys are all going to feel so good when it is done. For about 2 weeks.
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Jul 23, 2012 03:55
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I have to move everything out of my apartment the day after bar and then I have a week off and then my job starts that week off will be the most glorious cathartic vacation ever
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Jul 23, 2012 04:37
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Kalman posted:People from Cooley Law manage to pass the bar. How the hell could you possibly fail? Slow down now, not everyone can compare to scholars from the second best law school in the nation.
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Jul 23, 2012 09:27
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Second best. They are first in humility.
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Jul 23, 2012 11:04
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Ugh. Last day to study. Hold me.
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Jul 23, 2012 12:53
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Hahaha NPR is doing a piece on the law school crisis. Ruh-roh Shaggy, all the liberals are going to be so angry.
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Jul 23, 2012 13:27
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Boosted_C5 posted:Ugh. Last day to study. *cups your balls tenderly* *so tenderly*
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Jul 23, 2012 14:04
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My wife takes the PA bar tomorrow. I hope she passes or I am going to murder someone.
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Jul 23, 2012 14:42
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Boosted_C5 posted:Ugh. Last day to study. Not trying to be an rear end, but if you haven't gotten it by now, you're not going to. Relax, unclench the butthole a little, and have a little confidence that you'll make it.
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Jul 23, 2012 15:07
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Boosted_C5 posted:Ugh. Last day to study. Take the last day off and use it to get your mind and body some rest so they'll be at 100% for the real thing. Good luck!
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Jul 23, 2012 15:11
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Athenry posted:Not trying to be an rear end, but if you haven't gotten it by now, you're not going to. Relax, unclench the butthole a little, and have a little confidence that you'll make it. I still think I can still improve by going over the recent essay exams today one more time. There's bound to be 1 or 2 repeats with different names plugged in. Also reading through my outlines one last time might lead to one less factor or point of law escaping me tomorrow. I'll have plenty of time to relax come Wednesday afternoon. Gonna reward myself with a video-game marathon.
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Jul 23, 2012 15:13
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zzyzx posted:Take the last day off and use it to get your mind and body some rest so they'll be at 100% for the real thing. Good luck! 4 hours until I leave for Roanoke. I'll stop then for the day and chill tonight from 4pm to bed-time. Good luck all other bar takers.
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Jul 23, 2012 15:15
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zzyzx posted:Take the last day off and use it to get your mind and body some rest so they'll be at 100% for the real thing. Good luck! This is absolutely correct. There's basically no chance you'll learn something between now and the start of the bar that will make as much of a difference as being well-rested. This is especially important since you may not get much rest between day 1 and 2 (stress).
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Tetrix posted:I'm ready to get this thing over with. My school has a 94% pass rate. I couldn't possibly fail.....right????!?!?! True story. When I was taking the bar, the woman (I did not know her but we got to talking during the downtime between tests) next to me was clearly freaking out a bit. Normally I wouldn't give a poo poo, but whatever bit of compassion I have for other human beings was apparently kicking in that day. So I told this woman, "Calm down - this state has something like a 92% pass rate. Ask yourself, when was the last time in your entire life where you were in the bottom 8% of a pool of test takers? Did it ever happen? In elementary school? Middle school? High school? College? Law school? So why would this be the first time right here?" She actually seemed to calm down a bit. Cheered up, seemed to take it well. I actually felt good about myself, because me and human contact don't always go together well. Particularly me and making other people feel better. Found out later that she failed.
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yeah its definitely useless to look at something right before you have have to say everything you know about it under stress, which is why FRE 612 definitely doesn't exist
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Feces Starship posted:yeah its definitely useless to look at something right before you have have to say everything you know about it under stress, which is why FRE 612 definitely doesn't exist Sleep deprivation has bad effects on memory. Caffeine reduces but does not eliminate these. I'd definitely review flashcards of your weak subjects the morning of the exam to fix it in memory but get a good night's sleep if at all possible.
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evilweasel posted:This is absolutely correct. There's basically no chance you'll learn something between now and the start of the bar that will make as much of a difference as being well-rested. This is especially important since you may not get much rest between day 1 and 2 (stress).
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Jul 23, 2012 18:06
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Good luck starbro, boosted, other takers I believe in you 
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Jul 23, 2012 18:34
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Partner, assigning me (nonbillable) research topic: "I remember reading a case on this a while ago. Find that one. I think I found it by searching on Lexis" THANKS MAN
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Jul 23, 2012 20:00
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This is the time of year I always feel more satisfied in my decision not to take the bar and practice.
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Jul 23, 2012 20:07
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Soothing Vapors posted:other takers Awww thanks. I'm having my pre-test mini-freakout right now. I didn't practice enough MPTs ahhhhhh.
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Jul 23, 2012 20:28
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The bar exam is easy. If you fail you are dumb.
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Jul 23, 2012 20:32
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If I do step 10 12 times, that's just as good as doing all 12 steps, right
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Jul 23, 2012 20:39
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Boosted_C5 posted:4 hours until I leave for Roanoke. I'll stop then for the day and chill tonight from 4pm to bed-time. YOU CAN DOOO EEET! Your mission (with passing the bar I guess as secondary): you must come back with stories of people being kicked out for not dressing good enough, people going loving NUTS during the breaks, and other such shenanigans.
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Soothing Vapors posted:Partner, assigning me (nonbillable) research topic: "I remember reading a case on this a while ago. Find that one. I think I found it by searching on Lexis" This has happened to me in every law job that I have had so far. My take on it is more, "It would make my life easier/I am misremembering/I had a fever dream that a case like this exists." And then they never believe you, because you can't really prove a negative, can you? Absolutely.
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woozle wuzzle posted:YOU CAN DOOO EEET! Wearing Khakis with my navy jacket/blue shirt/red tie. Hope it's good enough. Also people better not be freaking out in the bathrooms wasting space. I gotta pee man. Maybe I'll get done early enough to beat everyone to the john. Hope they have a lot of them. Just got to Roanoke.
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Dogen posted:And then they never believe you, because you can't really prove a negative, can you? You basically have to say "here is precisely how I searched it. Nothing came up. If you have any other ways you'd like me to search it please let me know" then hope to god you didn't forget something obvious.
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Boosted_C5 posted:Wearing Khakis with my navy jacket/blue shirt/red tie. Hope it's good enough.  Seriously, some bar volunteer hoping to get on some committee is standing in the bathroom, making sure you don't pass notes or something. So people tend to pee and get out.
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Someone is threatening to sue me and my wife (not legal related) and my reply included a "lawyer dog" meme. Unsure if I'm a great lawyer or the greatest lawyer.
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Jul 23, 2012 21:26
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in east lansing this is the End Of All Things
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Dogen posted:This has happened to me in every law job that I have had so far. Well, you can when you find a case from either the appeals court or SCOTUS saying the contrary. However, that's an awkward conversation in itself. "Hey, remember that thing you thought? Are you sure it wasn't the exact opposite?"
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Roger_Mudd posted:Someone is threatening to sue me and my wife (not legal related) and my reply included a "lawyer dog" meme. My firm administers a fairly large issue regarding claims, and every so often we get some random guy really unhappy with us and threatening to sue us. Not like lawyers, guys saying they're going to march down to small claims court or something. Universally these are for things we're 100% required by the law to do and if they sue us over them we'll have it thrown out in a heartbeat and get paid for it. I haven't yet just asked these people what exactly it is they think we do here when they think we'll run screaming from the prospect of defending against a lawsuit, but I've come real close.
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Forcing myself to log onto HBO and watch the Wire now. No more study. As for bathroom monitors, ugh. I have pee-pee stage fright. Gonna do my business in the stall so creepy monitor guy doesn't try to talk to me.
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Seems like the July 2012 crop of bar takers are way more neurotic and freaked-out than in recent years. I guess anyone who decided in 2009 that law school was still a good idea is probably a pretty broken person though so it makes sense I suppose.
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