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Above The Law
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
We all knew that this administration of the California bar exam would be a disaster. The new test employing Kaplan questions and administered by Meazure Learning suffered setback after setback in the lead up to the test, prompting the bar examiners to preemptively offer refunds and then a free retake.
Attorney at Work
MARCH 23, 2022
What does it take to become a successful lawyer in your particular niche or practice area? In a series of in-depth interviews for the Estrin Report , Chere Estrin profiles top lawyers from all types of practices. Five Things You Need to Become a Top Lawyer. In this column, we zero in on their top tips. Sivonnia DeBarros.
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Above The Law
FEBRUARY 25, 2025
The February administration of the California bar exam is so broken that they’re offering a free July test to everyone who fails. Despite the trouble they’ve faced, California’s effort to reinvent the bar exam was born out of necessity. The post Buy One Get One Free Cal Bar Exams!
The Estrin Report
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
Have people to bounce ideas off of: those people can be other lawyers, but also make sure you are talking to people who are NOT lawyers as well. Lawyers are often smart, ambitious, and highly educated. That being said, what does it take to stand out and become a “Top Lawyer” in your specific field of law?
Above The Law
MARCH 4, 2025
You know what’s worse than the disastrous rollout of a hastily thrown together bar exam overhaul? Rolling out a hastily thrown together bar exam retreat. Just when you thought the California bar exam disaster had reached its logical conclusion — after all, how much worse could it get?
Above The Law
FEBRUARY 18, 2025
When Kafka wrote Before the Law , he meant to describe the surreal hellscape of standing “before” the law, not the surreal hellscape of applicants “before” they become lawyers. Yet the powers-that-be have transformed the February administration of the California bar exam into a farce that would make Kafka blush.
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