tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7175771600106951071Mon, 16 Sep 2024 06:34:50 +0000http://blawfields.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Purpose)Blogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7175771600106951071.post-8633897690005195034Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:41:00 +00002008-08-12T01:41:58.469-04:00Because my MPRE score expired, I had to retake it.  After spending a couple hours with students about to begin their third year of law school, I have some observations: The MPRE is a weird exam.  It is easy in that you can normally eliminate two wrong answers quickly, leaving you a 50/50 (or at worst a 30/30/30) guess.  Often the remaining answers both seem right (impossibly so http://blawfields.blogspot.com/2008/08/tales-from-mpre.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Purpose)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7175771600106951071.post-5153339295518634347Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:16:00 +00002008-08-12T01:16:45.184-04:00Prior to and during law school, I was an LSAT tutor both on my own and (at a different time) for one of the large test preparation companies.  I'm not particularly fond of the LSAT.  Rather, I couldn't believe that my performance on a single test that was learnable could erase years of undergraduate work.  I figured out a strategy that significantly improved my score (http://blawfields.blogspot.com/2008/08/free-lsat-advice.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Purpose)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7175771600106951071.post-5821979327133314224Sun, 03 Aug 2008 21:04:00 +00002008-08-03T17:04:53.146-04:00Many of the other people who took the bar exam with me last week are now on well-deserved vacations and have an entire month of relaxation before beginning work again.  I, on the other hand, am back working.  The joys of being a practicing attorney.   I don't know whether I passed or not, though I feel much less confident about it this time than my previous, successful, http://blawfields.blogspot.com/2008/08/some-early-reactions-to-bar-exam.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Purpose)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7175771600106951071.post-5454775375279164463Sat, 02 Aug 2008 06:28:00 +00002008-08-02T02:29:29.254-04:00For the unacquainted, Campbell Law (officially, the Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law) is perhaps the most well-respected law school you've never heard of. In North Carolina, Campbell is known for producing high-quality attorneys. I have had the privilege of knowing and working with several and found them equal to their alma mater's sterling reputation.Campbell Law is also known for its http://blawfields.blogspot.com/2008/08/campbell-law-teaching-test.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Purpose)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7175771600106951071.post-3021696528335287936Sat, 02 Aug 2008 05:50:00 +00002008-08-02T01:50:29.410-04:00I am currently reading Major Dick Winters' excellent book, Beyond Band of Brothers.  Like many people, I am a huge fan of the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers and am grateful that the experiences of the men of Easy Company have been preserved for posterity.  Major Winters and Colonel Cole Kingseed took it upon themselves to fill in the gaps left by the miniseries and Stephen Ambrose http://blawfields.blogspot.com/2008/08/self-reflection.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Purpose)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7175771600106951071.post-3009302103000657055Sat, 02 Aug 2008 05:25:00 +00002008-08-02T01:36:04.951-04:00I recently took my second bar exam, exactly two years after passing my first. Being surrounded by 400 recent law school graduates was a strange experience.Your first time, you're scared. It's understandable. There are urban legends of law clerks who were fired because they failed the first time they took the bar or who couldn't get over the stigma. You believe them because, as a law student, http://blawfields.blogspot.com/2008/08/starting-over.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Purpose)0