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12-31-2010 , 09:39 PM

#5701

DeadMoneyWalking

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Bar exam lawyers, did any of you refer to your old textbooks, class notes?

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12-31-2010 , 09:51 PM

#5702

DonkJr

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Originally Posted by DeadMoneyWalking

Bar exam lawyers, did any of you refer to your old textbooks, class notes?

No. Looking at anything but the Bar/Bri materials (or Kaplan or w/e) is a complete waste of time, and may even throw you off.

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12-31-2010 , 09:54 PM

#5703

BornToPun

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Anyone want to give advice on applying for 1L summer positions. W/o my grades I'm having a really hard time deciding where I should even be applying.

ETA: I'm also strongly considering a summer study abroad program, but am I apprehensive that this would put me "behind" and not look good on my resume for future employers. Thoughts?

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12-31-2010 , 11:32 PM

#5704

ajrenni

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Originally Posted by XxGodJrxX

No. Looking at anything but the Bar/Bri materials (or Kaplan or w/e) is a complete waste of time, and may even throw you off.

Pretty much this. The whole point of BarBri is to condense the material and give you just what is important for the exam, so branching out defeats the purpose.

The only exception for me was when there was a subject that I wasn't familiar with (Wills/Trusts, UCC Articles 3,4 and 9), where I felt like I needed some context to understand what was in the outlines, so I spent some time at the reserve room in the library reading Examples/Explanations.

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01-01-2011 , 12:09 AM

#5705

Noah.

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Reading anything beyond the BarBri class outline is absurd. I think I spent maybe 90 minutes total reading the big BarBri outline and the rest just on the class note outlines and condensed notes.

I think I posted this before, but for every subject I condensed stuff done to a spiral bound note card book (more than 1 for big subjects):

I did the majority of my studying on beautiful Carson Beach in South Boston:

http://www.boston.com/news/local/bre...ody_fou_5.html

I still have those note cards if anyone wants them (MA bar obviously).

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01-01-2011 , 11:15 PM

#5706

Dave D

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Just posting to agree with what others have said about bar studying, just use barbri or whatever.

Tyler- No doubt, shoot me a PM or text or whatever. I can probably do whenever, I'm sure your schedule right now is more crazy/stressful than mine.

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01-01-2011 , 11:18 PM

#5707

MXdotCH

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yo loll im lawer, when 2 harvrd law school if you have any questions go a head

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01-01-2011 , 11:37 PM

#5708

DeadMoneyWalking

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Originally Posted by MXdotCH

yo loll im lawer, when 2 harvrd law school if you have any questions go a head

So this guy is worth his price?

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01-02-2011 , 12:11 AM

#5709

MXdotCH

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Originally Posted by DeadMoneyWalking

So this guy is worth his price?

dude what you talk about?

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01-03-2011 , 12:06 PM

#5710

Tyler Durden

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I sort of think that I won't be able to get any real bar study done until after the Super Bowl. Is that stupid?

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01-03-2011 , 12:13 PM

#5711

Karak

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as long as the beast thread still gets mock draft updates, I think you'll be fine.

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01-03-2011 , 02:48 PM

#5712

Dead

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My friend at Cornell is a 2L and called me to tell me that he was interviewing at some "Vault 100 firms, mostly in the lower end" in September and October like Nixon Peabody, Schulte, Dewey and Proskauer" (his words.) He had the on-campus screening interviews in late August/early September then had the interviews in NYC. I haven't heard from him since then. For someone who called me excited about all those interviews, I'd think he would have called me assuming he got an offer. Does that mean he likely didn't get BigLaw? I hope that's not the case but bleh.

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01-03-2011 , 02:57 PM

#5713

MXdotCH

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you really that anxious about it lol?

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01-03-2011 , 03:01 PM

#5714

Tyler Durden

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I just returned from a study session at Panera. Lots of hot women there, sort of distracting. I am getting only half of the MBEs right and it's depressing.

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01-03-2011 , 03:33 PM

#5715

ajrenni

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I was having the same problem with the waitresses at the Waffle House last night. Fortunately I got called for jury duty tomorrow morning (capital murder), so I will get a few hours of studying in before they tell me to go to the office.

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01-03-2011 , 03:49 PM

#5716

Dead

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Originally Posted by MXdotCH

you really that anxious about it lol?

lol, not me.

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01-03-2011 , 04:05 PM

#5717

MXdotCH

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Originally Posted by Dead

lol, not me.

I know it's not you who's applying for the job. I meant you looked pretty anxious about him getting the job..

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01-03-2011 , 04:18 PM

#5718

Dead

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Originally Posted by MXdotCH

I know it's not you who's applying for the job. I meant you looked pretty anxious about him getting the job..

Well I hope he does. It would suck to go to law school specifically to get BigLaw like he did and then not get it. Was that a wise idea? Probably not. He did go to a top school though and did all the right things to get the chance to work 70 hours a week and have a miserable life.

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01-03-2011 , 04:23 PM

#5719

MXdotCH

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Originally Posted by Dead

and did all the right things to get the chance to work 70 hours a week and have a miserable life.

ehhhhhhhhh

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01-03-2011 , 06:26 PM

#5720

Karak

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Dead,

You were exiled from this thread a long time ago. Please PM me if you'd like to continue posting in here so we can talk about it.

-Karak

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01-03-2011 , 06:53 PM

#5721

Dave D

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Originally Posted by Tyler Durden

I just returned from a study session at Panera. Lots of hot women there, sort of distracting. I am getting only half of the MBEs right and it's depressing.

That Panera (on Boston street?) was SO much fun this summer. I had my census crew meetings there every day for a few hours.

You're only supposed to get like half the MBEs right I think. Whatever barbri tells you is the benchmark is fine.

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01-03-2011 , 11:25 PM

#5722

Tyler Durden

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Yes, that's the Panera I went to. I will probably go back a few times--the eye candy makes the miserable experience of bar studying almost sort of worth it.

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01-04-2011 , 12:29 AM

#5723

DeadMoneyWalking

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Originally Posted by Tyler Durden

Yes, that's the Panera I went to. I will probably go back a few times--the eye candy makes the miserable experience of bar studying almost sort of worth it.

I'll lay odds it doesn't beat the Arizona St Student Center or for that matter the Law library.

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01-04-2011 , 01:06 AM

#5724

Karak

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I must say for a purely law campus (ug campus is halfway across town) GULC has a lot of attractive women. Of course when you have an enrollment of 58,000 per class there's got to be a few

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01-04-2011 , 01:22 PM

#5725

LooseAggressive

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Got my first grade and still waiting for the rest to be posted. Got a B in torts, which was median, but I thought I did a hell of alot better. Someone got a D+ though, not sure how thats even possible.

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