The bar exam, which is administered twice a year during the last weeks of July and February, falls this summer on July 29. Here in New York about 9,800 candidates are expected to sit for the two-day test.
Between now and then I will attempt to post one item daily that chronicles my countdown. The posts may be brief, excuse the pun. I need to memorize a world of black-letter law.
To start the counting on a hopeful note, BuzzFeed recently published a list of 14 famous people who failed the bar but turned out fine. They include Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Benjamin Cardozo, who developed the concept of forseeability in tort law and served on the U.S. Supreme Court.
This candidate takes heart.