Might the recent bar exam actually have prepared me to be a better lawyer? Yesterday it suddenly dawned me it might have, and I find it quite distressing to award it any sort of possibly-deserved credence. But at work yesterday I was issue-spotting like crazy and calling upon all sorts of law I'd just had to cram into my head: rules regarding duties to support property, trespass, registration of judgments, remedies, professional responsibility... And just last week I had another conversation where I cited chapter and verse on subject matter jurisdiction.
Meanwhile my work assignment for today includes what essentially amounts to a bar exam performance test.
While I of course love that I'm increasingly confident that I'm able to do lawyerly work, and well, the very idea that preparing for the bar might have helped me do so is making me queasy...
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If it's of any help, I haven't found my bar knowledge to be useful in any way whatsoever.
Posted by Mike | March 15, 2007 8:34 AM
Posted on March 15, 2007 08:34
My first assignment at my post 1L summer job involved adverse posession. After that, I was never suprised that anything from the basic classes (and bar prep) might actually wind up being useful...
[except Rule Against Perpetuities. No one except a few estate lawyers need actually know the Rule Against Perpertuities]
Posted by Mark | March 15, 2007 3:23 PM
Posted on March 15, 2007 15:23