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[Bob Sacamano]

Welcome to the most noble of all professions.

People will always whine about lawyers but they do so only because:

a) they couldn't hack it in our field;

b) they are jealous;

c) they haven't yet needed our service.

They hate us until they need to get out of jail then they love us.

or...their lawyer wasn't as good as the plaintiff's

 

[Cowboy Bebop]

I just found out today that I passed the Virginia Bar. I'm officially a lawyer. After taking it I wasn't that optimistic, but I passed it and did it on my first try

Boy I hope if I ever get in to trouble, I can have you defend me. Congratulations.

 

[LaTunaNostra]

Feel free to pile on....

My favorite -

You've got a doctor, a lawyer, and a banker, and a gun with just two bullets.

So who do you shoot?

You shoot the lawyer twice to make sure he's dead.


Mucho Congrats, whcarm....lawyers only get a bad rap because we don't need them til we're in some sort of hot water...but without them, we'd be stuck in it.

What kind of law are you going to specialize in?

 

[Pottsville Maroons]

Congrats! That is quite an accomplishment.

 

[peplaw06]

"3 times a charm?"

Vinny: "no, not for me, for me...6 years was a charm"

Hey man, the mayor of LA Antonio Villaragosa, took the Cali Bar 6 times before he passed.

 

[Bob Sacamano]

Hey man, the mayor of LA Antonio Villaragosa, took the Cali Bar 6 times before he passed.

man, that's committment

watch "My Cousin Vinny", that's where I got that line off of, hilarious movie

 

[peplaw06]

man, that's committment

Yeah I guess... kind of embarrassing too.

Yeah I love "Vinny."

 

[Dallas31]

Q: what do you call 100 lawyers dead at the bottom of the ocean ?


A: a good start




on a lighter note, the virginia bar is just about as hard as the wonderlich. congrats!

 

[whcarm]

The wonderlich? Really? I've always heard that the three hardest Bars in the country are California and New York (I've heard some say each is harder than the other, but most agree they are 1 and 2) and then Virginia as the third.

Of course, if you were really saying that the wonderlich is hard, then thanks.

 

[lewpac]

I'm a very successfull commercial painting contractor. I have a lot of retorts I say to stay humble. Folks say "man, your the biggest guy around", you're sooooooo prosperous", "you're doing so well", etc........
And I come back with, "Yeah, if I had half a brain I'd have stayed in college and become something. I'm making the best of, in reality, being a painter. Nothing against construction workers. But while we were screwing around at 18, 19, the Lawyers and Doctors were STUDYING in Friday and Saturday nights.
So, Counsuler, Monsignoir.................Congrats!!!!!!! Good for you. I personally have much respect for Lawyers, don't know where I'd be without mine. You paid your dues at a young age, we're paying our dues now!
All the best.....................

 

[bbgun]

The California bar exam is a killer:

Kathleen Sullivan is a noted constitutional scholar who has argued cases before the Supreme Court. Until recently, she was dean of Stanford Law School. In legal circles, she has been talked about as a potential Democratic nominee for the Supreme Court. But Ms. Sullivan recently became the latest prominent victim of California's notoriously difficult bar exam. Last month, the state sent out the results of its July test to 8,343 aspiring and already-practicing lawyers. More than half failed -- including Ms. Sullivan.

Although she is licensed to practice law in New York and Massachusetts, Ms. Sullivan was taking the California exam for the first time after joining a Los Angeles-based firm as an appellate specialist.

The California bar exam has created misery for thousands of aspiring and practicing lawyers. Former California Gov. Jerry Brown passed on his second try, while former Gov. Pete Wilson needed four attempts. The recently elected mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio R. Villaraigosa, never did pass the bar after failing four times.

 

[whcarm]

It took my best friend from law school two times to pass the California Bar.

 

[TheHustler]

Congrats! I just started law school two months ago.

Another 3 years to go. =/

 

[TheHustler]

The wonderlich? Really? I've always heard that the three hardest Bars in the country are California and New York (I've heard some say each is harder than the other, but most agree they are 1 and 2) and then Virginia as the third.

Of course, if you were really saying that the wonderlich is hard, then thanks.

New Hampshire (I know, it's weird) has the hardest bar in the country. California is second.

 

[cowboyed]

thanks for all the well wishes guys. And good luck peplaw06, hope you hear positive news soon. By the way, I have a cousin who is a judge in Texas right now and he had to take the Texas Bar 3 or 4 times before he passed it.

Funny thing is that I really don't think I want to practice law. Right now I'm taking Ph.D. classes at U.Va. so I can be a professor. I studied international law, national security law and and counterterrorism law. So, it's kind of hard to practice that in every day life. But we'll see.

Thanks again.

What's the matter with you? You could develop yourself a niche career being the Cowboys security and legal advisor, particularly when we travel and stay in Philadelphia to play the Eagles.

Now for some irreverent humor...What is the difference between a lawyer and a catfish? One is a scum sucking low bottom dweller, the other is a fish.

 

[peplaw06]

It took my best friend from law school two times to pass the California Bar.

I went to law school in California, but took the Texas bar. I don't know the relative difficulty of the bars after the top two... California and NY, but I know that California likes to keep their pass rates low. Some of their numbers are skewed though.

Like in Cali you don't have to be a graduate from an ABA accredited school to take the bar. In Texas you do. Also in Cali, you can take it as many times as you want. In Texas, you get 5 tries, then you're done. So some Cali takers could be graduates of some Podunk U Law School and take it as many times as they want. That's going to bring the pass rate down.

It's still a hard test, because it's 3 full days. And in July it's going to get harder with CA Procedure (Civ & Crim i think) being on the test. I just don't know if you can quantify how much harder it is by the pass rate numbers.