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Iceman (not verified) says:
A bright ninth-grader could pass the New York Bar. The only skill involved is memorization. The pass rates from schools like Yale, Harvard and Columbia are around 95% (and a lot of the failures are people who are going into non-law jobs like investment banking and don't bother studying).
The bar has nothing to do with what you learn in a good law school or what you actually do as a lawyer at a good law firm. Lawyers are valued for their specialist knowledge in very narrow fields, while the bar tests a superficial knowledge of 20-30 different fields - maybe applicable if you're one of three lawyers in a small upstate town, but totally irrelevant to someone at a top international law firm like White & Case.
A bright ninth-grader could pass the New York Bar. The only skill involved is memorization. The pass rates from schools like Yale, Harvard and Columbia are around 95% (and a lot of the failures are people who are going into non-law jobs like investment banking and don't bother studying).
The bar has nothing to do with what you learn in a good law school or what you actually do as a lawyer at a good law firm. Lawyers are valued for their specialist knowledge in very narrow fields, while the bar tests a superficial knowledge of 20-30 different fields - maybe applicable if you're one of three lawyers in a small upstate town, but totally irrelevant to someone at a top international law firm like White & Case.
We should set her up with Jonas Blank.