Over at Abovethelaw, the editors posted an open thread about bar results. Amazingly, our tiny little hideaway known as Nevada became a topic of discussion, when at 1:35 p.m. (EST) a reader wrote:I passed the NY bar the first try, but just found out I failed the NV bar by less than a point. They're running a scam out here in the desert. If you ever contemplate coming out here, give it a second thought. They have no reciprocity, they don't want you, and they won't make it easy for you to practice here.
The author's comment received the usual mature responses. For your entertainment, here they are:
[at 1:39 p.m.] 1:35, I think they just don't want retards to practice there.
[at 1:45 p.m.] Actually, Nevada sounds like the only intelligent state bar. How many attorneys are in NY now, 700 million?
[at 1:48 p.m.] 1:35, over a third of UNLV grads are retards!
[at 2:26 p.m.] 57% pass rate in NV (nvbar.org/admissions). Pretty low considering we have plenty of tards practicing out in the desert--we just try to keep out the east coast retards.
Ouch. Calling the Nevada State Bar exam a "scam". Those are some hard feelings.
Buck up people who failed the Nevada Bar. First, only 57% passed, which means you have a lot of company. Second, it could be worse. You could be in Louisiana, where they try to liven things up by posting a fake list of all the people who failed.
The NV Bar is harder than most other states to tide the inflow of potential attorneys from California. Nevada is up to BAR ID # 11021 or so now (including the recent Feb 2008 new admittees). Whereas California graduates and passes nearly that many every year don't they?
ReplyDeleteProtectionism at its best.
As a future Nevada attorney, I am glad to see that the Nevada Bar is looking out for the interests of current attorneys and making sure the market doesn't get flooded by these East Coast legacy admits who are unable to show that they can actually practice law.
ReplyDeleteIn response to 2L (4:03) above - don't for a minute believe that the Bar exam has anything whatsoever to do with the actual practice of law; or law school for that matter except the Clinics and the pleading & motion practice LP3/pre-trial advocacy courses at Boyd which were great practice. Since you are a 2L now, you'll get a taste of the actual practice if you are working for an attorney or law firm this summer so don't fret - all is not lost. Use the time you have working this summer wisely - try to get real assignments not the slow pitch ones that mean little. You'll absolutely LOVE it or you'll absolutely HATE it. That's the goal - learn from it.
ReplyDeleteMy understanding is that in Louisiana you can choose a pseudonym for the purposes of publishing bar results so that your name is not plastered everywhere and to insure anonymity in grading.
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