People keep asking me when I will know whether I've passed the bar...  I usually respond "In October or November"...
Today I found out some real info...

RI results are mailed out and posted online at 6:30pm on Tuesday, October 16th.

MA results are mailed out and posted online on Friday, November 2nd (I don't know what time...)

They basically post a ( Read more... )

So yesterday marked exactly 2 weeks to the bar exam (which is a Tues-Wed-Thurs ordeal).  Yesterday was also the last day of BarBri.  (Today I have an "essay workshop" and next week I'm taking a 3-day PMBR review course... but BarBri's over!!  Unbelievable ( Read more... )

"I feel like I've hiked up a mountain for three years and now stand at its top.  Looking down, I can see the path I've taken.  My perspective has changed now that I see the mountain from a different angle.  At the beginning of the hike, the top of the mountain seemed attainable, but distant.  Now that I look from the summit, the distance covered ( Read more... )

Today the Court made a decision on the so-called "partial-birth" abortion ban holding the federal ban constitutional despite the absence of an exception for the health of the mother. This decision is the first decision made regarding abortion in six years, detours from the precedent laid out in Carhart, and demonstrates how the new make-up of the ( Read more... )

* I got flowers (again!) last night. :)  Tulips ( Read more... )

I watched the movie 12 Angry Men tonight.  I've had it on my list of "movies to watch" since my first year of law school when a professor mentioned it or recommended it in class...  It's black & white and was released in 1957.   It was nominated for several Academy awards (including Best Picture) - but I don't think it actually won any... Today it' ( Read more... )

"It is during our most challenging and uncertain moments that our Nation's commitment to due process is most severly tested; and it is in those times that we must preserve our commitment at home to the principles for which we fight abroad."

- Justice O'Conner, writing for the U.S. Supreme Court, Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, 542 U.S. 507 (2004) (emphasis

Some lawyers seem to be afflicted with the notion that a trial is simply a container into which every fact learned in discovery must be dumped.

- Judge Morris B Hoffman, Colorado

From my book for Torture class:
Another insight from history is the danger that, once legitimated, torture could develop a constituency with a vested interest in perpetuating it. ...

... Sir James Fitzjames Stephen recorded an observation made to him in India in 1872 about the proclivity of the native police for torturing suspects.  "It is far ( Read more... )

Attended my BarBri MPRE review tonight in Boston.  Went from 5:30 to 10:00 PM with 3 breaks.  It was scheduled to go until 10:30, so we got out a little early ( Read more... )