Welcome to Bar/Bri

Welcome to Bar/Bri, the class that teaches you everything you need to know for the bar exam. Funny, I swear that is what law school is suppose to teach you. I mean, with the exception of clinic, law school doesn’t really teach you how to be a lawyer. You don’t really learn how to deal with clients (or even how to find them.) You don’t learn how to do billing, or draft the different kinds of motions, or even how to deal with other attorneys. Which is fine, since we (the law students) all assume we will learn this stuff on the job. But then, why go to law school? We ponder this, and come up with the only logical explanation we can think of: to prepare for the bar exam. “Of course!” we think, as we start our first year, “This must be the reason!”

But lo, we are wrong. And in comes Bar/Bri. Now granted, without taking my law school classes (especially the horrible first year ones) there is no way I could possibly learn all this information in the 2 months. But I still need to take this class (ok, to be fair, I don’t HAVE to take this class, but I think that I would be very much behind my colleagues if I don’t.) But it leads me to the line of thought: why isn’t law school sufficient in preparing me for the bar exam. Or, conversely, why is something like Bar/Bri part of law school? I mean, unlike college, where people take all kinds of different tests (MCAT, LSAT, etc.) law students generally take one test, the bar exam. It is one test, and the only required test for law students to take. And while I understand that every school can’t cover every different state, just about every state uses the multistate. So review that! Make it a class or something.

Ah well, back to watching video professors. Woo.