Sean Silverman: Silverman Bar Exam & LSAT Tutoring
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May your issue statement be clear. May your legal rules be complete but not over complete. And accurate enough. May your analysis be thorough and logical. May your conclusion be…whatever… it doesn’t matter all that much. But state one.
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They deserve all the google hits that they get. That's just clever.
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Not without a lawyer.
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Apparently, Elena Kagan as a professor would write notes to students who did especially well on an exam. Kind of a nice, if uncommon, gesture.
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@OscarHokeah
My best guess is that death is a bit like stepping out of a car that has broken down. Only the car gets left behind.
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@PerisCast
At least you have a good title for a book many years from now when you write about what working in medicine has taught you about life.
"Are you Surgeon?"
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When you have a valid goal but you struggle to express it:
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I'm not seeing anything wrong with this:
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For those who have never taken the Florida Bar Exam, this is what you're missing out on:
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When judges cite their own prior opinion to corroborate a current opinion:
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"or they are lawyers." just had to end with that, ha.
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US Supreme Court Law Clerks: write drafts of opinions for the Justices as a sort-of jumping off point which they can then revise as needed. Legal research, as needed.
Law Clerks Elsewhere:
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Dear Bar Applicant,
It’s time to panic.
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It’s the interest on student loans that destroys people.
I actually don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect people to pay back the money they’ve borrowed. But what’s so wrong with people arguing that they should be relieved from the excessive penalty that the government has
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Seems like a bargain:
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I do take issue with posts I’m seeing from lawyers on here at elite law firms stating that they’d never ask a candidate for an LSAT score. When choosing to interview at select schools only, the LSAT scores are *heavily baked into that decision. Top schools are filled with 170s+!
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Cost to take the SAT: $55
Cost to take the ACT: $85
Cost to take the GRE: $205
Cost to take the GMAT: $275
Cost to take the LSAT: $222
Cost to take the California Bar Exam: $1,197-$1,800.
Just saying...
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NO INTEREST IS VALID UNLESS IT MUST VEST, IF AT ALL, NOT LATER THAN 21…..
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An LSAT student who took the test yesterday: "I can't believe I'll need to wait almost 3 weeks to see how I did."
The road ahead has some surprises.
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I don't know what year this was, or what the context is behind this photo, but it's got a res ipsa loquitur kinda feel to it.
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@elonmusk
Did he attack you, though? Just trying to figure out the motivation for the post. And not being overly-sensitive or holier than thou or anything like that. But something about attacking appearance has a high-school-age "bully" kind of feel to it.
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Only fair, though, to also consider that if schools admit students without the LSAT, they run the risk of admitting students into their school who don't know that if Alan is on a team with Ben, and if Ben cannot be on a team with Carla, then Alan cannot be on a team with Carla.
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The cost to attend Columbia Law School for 3 years, as stated by the school on its website, all costs included, and this very well may vary per person since expenses vary, is now closer to $400,000 than to $300,000.
These numbers are --no joke--.
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An excellent point made by one of the 15 students in Kentucky who was first told he passed and then told he failed the bar. If he made an error through his own negligence/recklessness, causing similar economic harm to a client, he'd likely be disciplined by the bar for doing so.
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A little too true.
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A reminder that the next time law school graduates will be eligible to take the exam required for them to obtain employment as a lawyer is in 7 months.
Non law people: ^ that’s not a typo. 7 months. As in more than 1/2 a year.
And then a 2nd reminder that that’s insane.
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I have an LSAT student who is improving at a pace I don't normally see. He's gone up 21 points in the few weeks I've worked with him. Started 144, now 165.
I asked how he's done this.
"I've done coding my entire life, and this test is like coding but with words."
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Tucker Carlson called on his show for President Biden to reveal Ketanji Brown Jackson’s LSAT score. Prove your LSAT score to become a Supreme Court Justice. His rationale: according to Carlson, the score would prove whether Biden was correct in calling her a top legal mind.
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Very open to opposing views on this, but it's interesting to me that most go through an entire 1L Contracts class without ever drafting at least a basic contract.
All those cases, all those rules. Like offering a a semester-long instruction in chess and never playing a game.
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Worked with a Florida student who unfortunately wasn’t in the 44% or so who passed February, and now July will be this student’s 13th attempt at the exam. Who wouldn’t admire that kind of persistence.
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RIP to the following subjects, all dropped from the "NextGen Bar Exam" (2026):
~Conflict of Laws
~Family Law
~Secured Transactions
~Wills
~Trusts
To paraphrase that alleged line from Cravath lawyers when partners die: The subjects are dead; the exam lives.
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Graduating law school, and then having to immediately prepare for the bar exam:
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Pay. Public. Defenders. More. Money.
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When the Barbri outline for Property arrives.
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Justice Kagan (and then followed up by Justice Gorsuch) to Neal Katyal: "So, if the government condemns someone's house for a 5 dollar unpaid tax bill and then sells the house for 1 million dollars, it wouldn't be a taking if the government kept the full million dollars?"
Katyal:
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"Hearsay Exceptions."
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An email today from an LSAT student who got her scores back yesterday. Got right to the point with this email (it said nothing else):
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George Santos should probably just represent himself. He graduated from Yale Law School as editor of the Yale Law Journal, after scoring 180 on the LSAT (-0 on the test) and then clerked for all 9 Justices on the Supreme Court. He even understands the Rule Against Perpetuities.
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Now begins the post-bar-exam weirdness for many (most especially first timers). “Wait I can do something other than studying and not feel guilty?”
Nobody would believe it takes a few days to recover. Nobody who hasn’t taken it.
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My hot take is that lots of lawyers who enjoy the logic of legal reasoning would have enjoyed math more if it had been taught with a heavier focus on mathematical reasoning. There's a well-known math book called "The Art of Problem Solving" that is night and day different than…
Why are we all talking about math? Is this a nightmare?
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Buy the whole tomatoes in a can (less expensive than pre-made sauce.) Crush them with your hands. Add some garlic and onion to a pot with olive oil on low to medium heat. Add the tomatoes, and a bit of salt. Bring to a boil, then let it simmer.
At the end of cooking, add…
Never noticed it before but pasta sauce prices have really gotten out of control.
How much is a jar in your area?
This is what it costs in Chicago.
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The cost of 5 books 1L year of law school.
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A 3L showing a 1L around the school:
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Every time I hear a practicing attorney say that if they practiced law in the way that the bar exam tests the law they'd be subject to malpractice, I think about how crazy it is that that's true. Imagine a lawyer just insanely trying to practice all those areas of law on memory.
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Bar Exam PTSD is a thing. It’s a combination of the uncertainty as to whether you’ll need to do it again even though you did everything you could to avoid that, and simply trying to return to a normal existence without the cloud of the exam hanging over you at all times.
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The section to replace Logic Games on the LSAT.
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Anyone who argues that the bar exam should not be open book should not also argue that it’s a test of legal analysis and not memorization. In arguing both points you’d be contradicting yourself. If it’s in fact a test of legal analysis then allow students to consult the law.
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Opinions may vary, but:
Professors shouldn’t scream at law students.
Judges shouldn’t scream at lawyers.
Adults in power shouldn’t scream at other adults. It just makes the screamer look like, to use a recent term used by Justice Kagan at oral argument, a nutcase. Screaming in…
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Law professors today across the country who teach 1L Con Law creating hypotheticals about whether the First Amendment protects the speech of a guest at a professor's private home if the event at which the guest is speaking could be considered a public-school-related function.
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"I’ve never been more exhausted in my life, and I was in the Army."
A comment from a test taker. For those who think people exaggerate these things, that one should disabuse you of that misconception.
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Some people haven't seen enough torts hypotheticals.
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Subjects dropped from the next iteration of the bar exam:
-Family Law
-Trusts & Estates
-Secured Transactions
-Conflict of Laws
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The next bar is 7 months from now. I know there are many who’d like the test abolished, but assuming that’s not in the cards right now, it’s crazy to have people wait more than 1/2 a year to retake a licensing exam. Everything about how this test test is administered is so 🤪.
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“To me, torts is the most confusing, contracts the most boring, and crim law I can do in my sleep."
Property would like to have a word.
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If you're
1. really struggling in these final weeks; and
2: not able to purchase my bar prep book, then
send me an email for a free copy. And since I teach contract law, I have to say: offer valid only till the July exam.
This is what philanthropy looks like when you
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@lsepper
No interest is valid unless it must vest, if at all, not later than 21 years after a life in being at the creation of the interest.
and don’t talk to the police.
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Seems that the 18 year old attorney who passed the bar exam at 17, and is, at least as reported, the youngest person in California to get licensed to practice law, has a 16-year-old sister who's taking the bar exam in July 2024. If she passes, she beats his record.
Think back…
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I can’t read this entire thing but I hope there’s at least a “sorry for the inconvenience.” Because it reads more like a “govern yourself accordingly.” And none if this should happen so close to the exam.
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Another podcast in my podcast addiction.
@jbqlaw
is a talented interviewer. And this episode features a judge who mostly hears patent cases.
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I don’t often opine on the debate as to whether or not to take classes in law school if the only reason for taking them is because they are tested on the bar. Except this:
Take Evidence. You might be brilliant and also great at self-teaching yourself law. Still, take Evidence.
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If the Feb. bar results continue to come back with such abysmal numbers (haven’t seen anything above about mid 50% pass rate) is it not reasonable to wonder whether the test and not those taking it is the cause? A flawed exam would seem just as likely to produce these results.
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I feel like it’s contradictory to:
(1): make a claim that the goal of an exam is to determine whether a person has the minimum competency to practice in the profession; and
(2): test concepts that everyone knows rarely apply since those concepts have been deemed unworkable and
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Student called me in tears (happy) because she passed the Georgia exam. I'm pretty negative about the bar exam (it's my brand at this point) and for good reason. But that moment of finding out you passed the bar exam is one that most, if not all, lawyers never forget.
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Apparently, a top legal mind requires you deduce that if b must share a locker with c and if c can’t share a locker with d then b can’t share a locker with d.
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Did the Virginia Board of Bar Examiners write this.
So tired of the sloppiness at airports!
Stop wearing joggers or sweatpants or flip flops. People look like they literally crawled out of bed.
Bring back the airline culture of the 50’s!
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I think that's that "appearance of impropriety" that the MPRE likes to test.
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Not passing the bar exam: rough
Not passing the bar exam when you need a 260 and you get this score: another level of rough.
:sent to me by a student:
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There should be a rule: If you're told you passed the bar exam (whether you did or you didn't) because the Board of Bar Examiners doesn't know how to input data, then you've passed the bar exam.
I mean, in my opinion.
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@joshgreenblatt
Dodged a bullet on that one. And if those employers are reading, I’m not talking about actually dodging an actual bullet.
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"I'm pretty sure that if the grantor has the right to re-enter the property, that's a different future interest than if the property, when the condition fails, automatically reverts back to the grantor without the grantor having to take any further action."
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"A 17-year-old boy from Tulare County has made legal history by becoming the youngest person ever to pass the California bar exam."
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Anyway, I'll call it here: 9-0 not in his favor.
If it's worth reiterating, he's a brilliant lawyer. But this was a bad case to take. At one point he cited a statute from the..1200s..dealing with the right of property lords to take property from their vassals. Not a good look.
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~Malice Aforethought
~Irresistible Impulse
~Specific Performance
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I suppose after all I've gathered about the test today, I can draw a reasonably safe conclusion that the NCBE chose violence.
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"The Ohio Supreme Court suspended an attorney for a year after he was accused of pooping in a Pringles container and throwing it into the parking lot of a victim’s advocacy center."
Don't do that.
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Wow, that's some real appreciation right there:
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The Top 10 law schools for 2023 bar passage (those taking the exam for the first time:)
1: Michigan: 97.27%
2: Chicago: 97.10%
3: Vanderbilt: 96.97%
4: Yale: 96.79%
5: Stanford: 96.70%
6: NYU: 96.58%
7: Virginia: 🤵♂️ 96.50%
8: U. Penn: 96.25%
9: Harvard: 96.10%
10: Boston: 95.88%
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Email from a bar taker yesterday who passed Pennsylvania and attributed it to some of the tips I provide on here and elsewhere. He told himself if he passed he’d pay it forward. He did that and he’s paid $250 which will cover 5 of the prep books I wrote. I have books for
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When the answer is promissory estoppel, but you choose detrimental reliance:
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A student who is considering law school at Cornell was telling me about the costs. And wow, it may have gone passed the point of crazy.
1 year as estimated by the school itself for both tuition and other expected expenses: $95,114
Cost of the three year degree: $285,342
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When you use someone's outline in law school rather than write up your own.
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Students: "Law Professors come up with the most unrealistic fact patterns for their final exams."
Real life:
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Me: "It's ok that logic games are getting removed from the test. No real world application."
Also me reading email:
email 1: "I can meet on Mondays and Wednesdays but only in the morning."
email 2: "I can't meet on Fridays till January."
email 3: "Can't meet mornings."
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Anyone affected by ExamSoft's unimaginable incompetence should be able to re-take. There is far too much on the line to have others' negligence affect the results.
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If you don’t pass the July bar exam, the very earliest you might get licensed to do the job you’ve gone to school to do is March.
8 months later.
If you don’t pass the February bar exam, the very earliest is August.
6 months later.
Those not in the legal field will be
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So much is wrong with that, not least of which that Hand was never on the Supreme Court.
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A path to practicing law without having to pass a bar exam has been approved in Oregon.
Today, the Oregon Supreme Court, in a historic vote, unanimously approved the Supervised Practice Portfolio Examination (SPPE) - a new pathway to attorney licensure in Oregon. Read more here:
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Cashier to Clarence Thomas: “Will you be paying with cash, credit, or Harlan Crow.”
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Lots of people hate Property, but you never know if you might enjoy it later on. It might become a future interest.
What was your least favorite subject in law school/bar exam? And why is it Real Property?
#lawtwitter
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Here we have an excited utterance.
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