Moral Character Response - Arrived

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I also sent my firm a request for reimbursement for all the bar-related expenses I had until today. This included: the student registration and late fee, the moral character application fee, finger prints fee, bar/bri tuition, and MPRE registration fee. Barbri accounted for roughly 90% of the total. But Barbri is only 5% of my law school tuition. What a great deal.

PMBR Lectures

I drove home over the break. In the car, I listened to the PMBR Criminal Law CDs. The lecturer was sort of funny. It is great to listen to when you are doing other things, because he repeats every rule twice. So if I really sat down and listened to it, it would just be really boring. But over all, this was a *great* idea. Especially when you have a ton of time like I do. A good way to immerse yourself in the MBE subjects before looking at the outlines.

Also, the CA Bar sent me a note about my moral character application. I didn't account for *all* my time after I turned 18. So I sent back a letter saying that I was still in high school for the beginning of that time. (yes, I turned 18 before I graduated from high school.) The post office lady was in a bad mood when I went to drop off the letter...

End of Fall Semester

This month has been quiet bar-wise, mainly because of fall finals. I just finished yesterday--or was it the day before that? I even got one of my grades back already: a happy surprise considering how badly I did on the midterm.

Toward the end of the finals, I began reading the CA community property E&E. Apparently some laws were passed recently dealing with divorces in CA. So there are like three different sets of laws, depending on when you got married. I'm not really reading to remember, but just to get an idea. Pretty interesting. Hope to get done with this book before school starts again.

Driving home in a couple of days. Bought a CD player. Will begin listening to PMBR CDs.

Bar Exam Valentines

...is the title of this video.



I haven't done anything bar-related recently. Still in the midst of finals. Did get a CD-player from Walmart. Will listen to some PMBR over winter break.

Adachi Books - Arrived

The Bar Brakers books arrived in good condition. I'm not going to touch any of the books until after finals. This finals is, for some reason, especially painful for me. I think it's a combination of things. 1) I'm not really interested in the subjects I'm taking this sem. And it's also unseasonably cold here right now, which makes getting up in the morning really tough. Life goes on though.

I had a series of email exchanges with the seller of those Adachi books. She is a not-yet-but-soon-to-be licensed lawyer in the LA area. She is what you would probably call a nontrad; she graduated from law school after she turned 40. She used to run a lab and is now an associate doing--you guessed it--patent prosecution. Before going to LS she was a paralegal and had worked in several law firms. It was sort of interesting talking to her about law firms. It must be strange though, to be a 40-year-old associate. Not that I have anything against non-trads, but it must feel a bit strange to get yelled at by people who are you age-peers. The partner-associate relationship assumes that the partner is older than the associate. If not, it'd just be kinda strange.

Video Time!

Not sure what this following video means. Captioned: "what I think of the CA bar exam."


Kinda old vid on hearsay exceptions:

Book Review - Mastering the MBE

Well I finished this book a couple of days ago. It teaches very little law but it was good because it sort of gives you the big picture of what the bar exam is all about and prepares you for what is to come. The most helpful part about it is the MBE study and test-taking tips. But there is nothing earth-shattering in this book. All the tips are very obvious. But the author sums it all up in a good way. I think the most important advice he gives is about learning with the questions. The areas of law covered are vast, but what is tested is quite narrow. Thus you should not prepare for the MBE by staring at outlines all day. You should do practice questions.

Here are some other thoughts on this book from AGWIABE. Another post here.

Oh and, I just registered for the March MPRE.