Take the Bar and Beat Me
Excerpts from Alice in Wonderland
Practicing Law: Should You Get In? Should You Get Out? Should You Beg Your Friends to Avoid It?
a. The Way You'd Expect to Choose a School
C. In Brief: Applying to Law School
§ 2. Your Success in Getting There
B. A Note on the LSAT and Being Smart
C. How Little the Admissions Committee Really Knows About You
§ 3. The Study of the Law: Myth and Reality
A. The First Year: The Moment of Truth
C. The Purpose of Those Three Years of Study
1. To Help You Choose Your Legal Specialty?
2. To Help Employers Determine Who's Worth Hiring?
3. To Prepare You for the Bar Exam?
4. To Teach You What You Need to Know to Practice Law?
a. Courses in Law Practice and Academic Skills
b. Mainstream Academic Courses
§ 4. The Law You Study: End of the Fantasy
B. The Other Half of the Story
2. How Other Attorneys Handle It
PART TWO: ENTERING THE LAWYER'S WORLD
§ 5. Bar Admission: The Arrival of Knowledge
C. The Other Requirements for Admission
PART THREE: DISLIKING THE SIDE EFFECTS
A. Defining the Legal "Profession"
B. Having Defined It, We Consider Its Special Needs
§ 11. The Original Plan; the Revised Plan
A. The Plan? On to a Professional Career!
The Reality? They Drop Like Flies!B. The Plan? Security, for Those Who Make It.
The Reality? Nausea, When They Make It & Hate It.C. The Plan? Superior Training.
The Reality? Too Much Intensity.D. The Plan? Legal Self-Sufficiency.
The Reality? Hidden Costs.
§ 12. Trying to Remember Human Attitudes
2. The Right to Live According to an Unwritten Code