Woof… came here straight from the Deadpool thread and flinched for a second…
Congrats.
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There is nothing quite as anxiety-producing as waiting for a bar score. Congrats to Devon!
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Or waiting for a bar tab
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The bar website crashed the moment scores got posted my year. They went up around 3:30pm. Couldn’t get my results until after 10 that night. Bad enough waiting to see that I passed, brutal for my friends who didn’t.
Incidentally: when going through his keepsakes, we found my father-in-law’s bar results letter from 1984. Back then it was two sections and you needed a minimum score of 75 in each section to pass. Section 1, he got a 75. Section 2, he got a 75. Absolute legend.
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When I took the PG exam, they just mailed you a letter, you couldn’t check online or anything. If you passed they didn’t tell you your score, just “Congratulations, you passed. Please send your check to…”. If you failed they gave you the score. That never made sense to me. I passed both parts the first time.
My boss at the time was on his third try and finally passed that time. I got dinged on my performance review because he said I didn’t study hard enough. I said “but I passed”. He said, “yeah, but you didn’t seem to take it serious enough”. That never made sense to me either.
That’s downright nerve wracking.
Congrats to you and your son!
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When I took the bar exam, there was no online, but it was ok. The Supreme Court Clerk would call our firm the afternoon before grades were released to tell us if we’d passed.
It was a better world then.
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Didn’t you get a personal telegram from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.? Or am I thinking of another old time country lawyer around here?
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My son has his practice card and is working in the civil clinic at the law school this semester. He got assigned a case where there was a family dispute over how a trust was handled after a minor became an adult.
The case went to trial which was just the second time that had happened on over 20 years of the law clinic. So he and a classmate had to prepare for trial while still keeping up with class work.
Trial was this week and long story short - they got a straight defense verdict.
As the plantiff’s attorney wrapped up her closing she said “You are about to hear from a very talented young man. But this isn’t a school project. This decision impacts people’s lives.”
My son was the one who was following that.
He passed her going to his car after the trial and said “Now I have to go catch up on my school work.” He said she didn’t find the humor in his comment.
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You can go your whole career without a moment that satisfying. Incredible.
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