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Guest post by Dan Sherman.
Computers are designed to make repetitive jobs easier. One thing we do more than anything else is type. If you are like me, you type the same thing several times during a day. What if you could train your computer to do the repetitive typing for you? That’s where text expansion software helps.
Guest post by Barry Edwards.
Do not read Jeffrey Toobin’s latest book, The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court, if you want to hold on to any illusions about the sanctity of the United States Supreme Court. The Court is just as soiled with rank political calculations as the other two branches of government.
Guest post by Joshua Baron
How would you rate your most recent interaction with an opposing lawyer? Chances are that if you are a criminal lawyer, it was a lot more pleasant than if you practice other areas of law. The surprising research that supports this is one reason you should take more criminal cases and if you are a new law school graduate choosing a legal field you should consider criminal law.
Guest post by Nussin Fogel.
It has long been recognized that the value of a lawyer’s services depends upon the lawyer’s reputation for giving sound advice. Some of history’s first defamation cases were brought by16th century lawyers accused of being “ambidexters” (having a conflict of interest).
The Second Circuit has now held that the ability to give sound legal advice is actually a property right.
Guest post by Jeff Cohen.
Why did you decide to become a lawyer? Was it because of amazing attorneys you idolized as a kid? Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Justice Brandeis, Marcia Clark?
No way! It was because of awesome legal eagles you saw in the movies. You wanted to mesmerize that jury, defend the innocent, prosecute the guilty and look damn fine doing it. As an attorney and big movie buff, I have strong feelings about who the best lawyers in movie history are. Perhaps you do as well.
Check out my list and let me know your thoughts.
Guest post by Mary Campbell Gallagher.
How can you give yourself a boost heading into the bar exam? For some bar candidates, Wednesday (the MBE day) is the first day of the exam, followed by state law on Thursday. Others have a state exam on Tuesday. And some have state exam days both on Tuesday and on Thursday. Read over these suggestions, so you can make your plans for those last few days well ahead of time.
Guest post by Mary Campbell Gallagher.
I asked my bar-prep students for their suggestions for reducing stress and maximizing study results in the last two weeks before the bar exam. Here are their eleven best suggestions:
Guest post by Mary Campbell Gallagher.
The people who pass the bar exam are not necessarily smarter than the people who fail. But they do use different study strategies. Good study strategies are active, not passive. They help you get the rules into your mental inventory. Then you can whip them out when you need them for a fast analysis of a fact pattern on the bar exam.
Here are ten study strategies: five bad ones and five good ones.
Guest post by Mary Campbell Gallagher.
Success on the performance test part of the bar exam requires keeping control of your time and following the instructions to the letter. Too many people just launch into the work product on the performance test without looking at the clock, hoping they will “cover” the material. That’s like jumping into the Atlantic Ocean and starting to swim, hoping you will get to Europe. It is impossible to finish on time.
Guest post by Mary Campbell Gallagher.
People fail the bar exam because they don’t finish the essays. They spend so much time on an early essay that they can’t write the later essays. Or they work on all of the essays, but without finishing some or all of them. Either way, these bar candidates are writing too slowly, and it costs them their ticket to a law license. Finishing is key.
The good news is that writing slowly is not inborn, or the result of slow genes. On the contrary, slow writers and fast writers do different things when they write, they don’t just do the same things at different speeds. Change what you do, and you can finish the essays and your tasks on the Multistate Performance Test (MPT) or the California Performance Test (PT), perhaps even with time to spare.
If you can use Twitter, you can finish the bar exam essays in plenty of time.
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