Big Law and Passing the Bar

by Traverse Legal, reviewed by Enrico Schaefer - November 6, 2007 - 'The Greatest' Philosophy

I guess if you work for big law, and you don’t pass the bar, you’re essentially fired.  I don’t know too many people who work for big law who didn’t pass, but it has to be a death blow. 

Needless to say, Brian passed the bar with flying colors, scoring 160 on the multi-state.  They didn’t even grade his essay questions. 

Of course, Mark and I knew he would pass with flying colors.  But it does raise the interested question I posed earlier.  Are bar results really a good indicator of performance as an attorney? 

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