Rug Burn Junky on 27/7/2006 at 19:26
Leaving aside the more frightening innuendo in the thread, yes, this is the same test I took a couple of years ago.
Bar exams in every state are two parts, the MBE on Wednesday - a 200 question multiple choice test that takes a full day, and is the same for the whole country, and a local law day, which varies state by state (NY, when I took it, was 50 Multiple choice, a Model Performance Test, and I think 6 essay questions), and is held on either the Tuesday before or Thursday after, depending on the state (allowing you to take the bar exam for two different states, if you so desire. Unless you take Cali, since their local law exam is Tuesday AND Thursday.)
The New York Exam is generally considered to be one of the harder exams in the country, though it's got nothing on Cali, and Louisiana, which deviates with their mildly fucked up Civil Code rather than common law is also a bitch, by all accounts.
There are also rules that say you can be automatically admitted to a second state if you score highly enough on the MBE, and/or practice for a long enough time (upon passing, I was eligible for a number of other states, though the only one I seriously considered was Minnesota). D.C., will take any admitted attorney from any other state, and Wisconsin, bless their hearts, will admit in-state graduates without taking the bar exam at all.
demagogue on 27/7/2006 at 19:50
Whereas California takes a special pride in denying any outsider lawyers unless they take its exam only, and it has stricter rules even for the exceptions (*especially* for New Yorkers, so my legal ethics prof says) ... and as RBJ just mentioned, then they make it tough to take both CA and another state at the same time.
I don't mind that she took it before me ... all the more quickly we get a breadwinner around here.
Mr.Duck on 28/7/2006 at 09:29
So, regardless of the place, you're still in for a sore-butt-a-thon, eh?
Dayum, son...good luck with that monster.
