A Lawyer Walks into a Bar
Last night, I attended the world premiere of a documentary called A Lawyer Walks into a Bar at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas. A friend from UT Law School, Evan Fitzmaurice, is a producer on the movie. The documentary follows six wanna-be lawyers struggling to prepare for and actually taking the California Bar Exam, one of the most challenging bar exams with the lowest pass rate nationwide.
The packed theater was filled with many lawyers and non-lawyers who gave the film a rousing reception. This hilarious, emotional and compelling documentary features many noted attorneys such as Joe Jamail, Robert Shapiro, Alan Dershowitz, Nancy Grace, and Scott Turow, who all give their perspectives on practicing law as a profession. I hope the movie gets picked up by a distributor. Every person that's ever taken a bar exam will relate to the emotional roller coaster ride that these six people undertake. Keep an eye out for it- it's destined to be a hit among the legal crowd.
The packed theater was filled with many lawyers and non-lawyers who gave the film a rousing reception. This hilarious, emotional and compelling documentary features many noted attorneys such as Joe Jamail, Robert Shapiro, Alan Dershowitz, Nancy Grace, and Scott Turow, who all give their perspectives on practicing law as a profession. I hope the movie gets picked up by a distributor. Every person that's ever taken a bar exam will relate to the emotional roller coaster ride that these six people undertake. Keep an eye out for it- it's destined to be a hit among the legal crowd.
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posted by Suzanne Dupree Howe, Esq. at 5:01 PM
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The California Bar passage rate is low because California is the only state that allows graduates of unaccredited law schools to sit for the state's bar exam.
The annual statistical breakdown of those who took the California bar consistently shows that the passage rate for graduates of accredited law schools is equivalent with other states.
Take it from someone who has sat for both the California bar and the bar of another state: California's bar exam is no more difficult than, say, Iowa's, and in my opinion, easier.
I also thought California's Bar Passage Rate was skewed lower because of the unaccredited schools out here. This is the State Bar's official line as well. Independent studies are more revealing:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=914224
and
http://www.ncbex.org/fileadmin/mediafiles/downloads/Comp_Guide/2007CompGuide.pdf
These are the facts.
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