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Law Practice

Jun. 13, 2001

The Agony of Defeat: Failing the Bar Exam

Although the bar passage rate is usually under half, partners speak of bar-failers as if they were as rare as lightning-strike victims.

        By the Rodent

        When you were a kid, you always looked forward to summertime because you were out of school, away from books and studying. Then you went to law school, and you've never had one of those summers since. And the summer that sets the tone for the rest of your legal career is the one that immediately follows law-school graduation. It's the summer spent s...

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