You better make a strong bid on these to ensure your success…

Congrats, Brian, I know it was the pencils because I had class with you.

Today, I celebrate. This afternoon UT College of Law will dismiss their last class and students will get that glut in their throats that their lives will be on hold for the next three weeks. Not me. This afternoon I am going to leave work, go home, drink a beer, and celebrate that for the first time in three years I did not have to go through that hell of law school finals.

I have listed my study materials on eBay.  If you are interested in passing the bar in February 2007, you should check out this auction.  In addition to the standard BARBRI and PMBR materials, I have included a custom prepared subject study outline for each subject, which is short enough to review the week before the exam.

Happy Bidding.

Through some help from my friends, we came up with the list of the topics that were tested in the summer 2006.  I hope that you find this helpful.

1. Federal and Tennessee Constitutional Law
2. URLTA – Business Organizations (Pierce the Veil)
3. Secured Transactions
4. Civil Procedure – Torts (GTLA)
5. Contracts – Remedies
6. Commercial Paper – Remedies
7. Professional Responsibility
8. Property
9. Family Law – Conflicts – Civil Procedure
10. Criminal Procedure – Criminal Law
11. Contracts – Remedies
12. Conflicts – Evidence – Civil Procedure

Yes, at some point in the near future I will be selling my study materials on eBay.  If you are interested, post a comment, and I will email you when I begin the auction.  I am pretty confident in my materials and think that you would benefit greatly from my materials.

http://state.tn.us/lawexaminers/success.html

I’s a lawyer, bi-otches. I knew when the page loaded and the first name on the list was “EMILY FAYE ABBOTT,” there was no need to look any further–I definitely passed.

Now, I can get back to not practicing law.

At 12:00 the results were due, and we are still waiting. My cadre of online friends from law school are huddled over our computers IM’ing. My friend Tim made the astute observation: “I may be cocky sometimes, but I am not arragant enough to not be nervous right now.”

I shall follow up shortly.

Curious if anyone knows what topics were tested in February.  I have a short and incomplete list that I have gathered.  If anyone can fill in the blanks that would be helpful.

1.
2. Ethics
3.
4. Personal Property
5. Evidence
6. Partnerships
7. Torts
8.
9.
10.
11. Article IX
12.

Comments are welcomed: share the wealth.

In light of my most recent malady, I figured out a new strategy for the bar exam.  I discovered it tonight while jamming ointment into my eye so that I could make out large objects in the morning.

I am going to wear an eye patch into the exam.  Every fifteen minutes or so I will exclaim, “Aaaarrrrrggg, a battery!” or “Aye, he stole that A pence for an old man o’de sea?”  I think this will only enhance my skills on taking the bar exam;  in fact, I may just write pirate speak on the test.  The examiners would have to love it.

You may think you have a game face for exams, but I’ll guarantee you would crumble at the site Pirate Floyd!  Shivver me timbers!

Okay, for the study break, we loaded up the fam and took a trip to the mall–no better way to relax than to travel to the marketplace and smell the refreshing air of capitalism at work.  As Doug watching noted, the Apple store is a real marvel.  It was packed with a bunch of geek chic salespeople (converted 90′s Gap employees) and hordes of tech-interested customers.  Basically it was a hit.

Then we made it around to the Dell store, but it was temporarily closed.  Evidently, they had to evacuate all of the customers, shut down the store, and then reopen it.  We didn’t have time to wait around, so we went and had chocolate.

Radiohead, 2+2=5, may have given me a concussion today as the anticipated ramp up (? opposite of break down?) built.  I madly shook all parts of my body eventually hitting my head on the keyboard all while the daughter onlooked in silent dismay and the wife shook her head in embarrassment.  This is when I officially declared Saturday afternoon, study break.

If you care to join me load the iPod with some Radiohead and forget about the rule against perpetuities, irreconcilable differences, and dram shop liability.

P.S. I am a much better dancer with the accompaniment of the 5 wheels on my office chair.