[blindLaw] Law School & Uniform Bar Exam

[Julie A. Orozco]

Hi Natasha,

I just took the UBE in February, so I can hopefully provide some answers to
your questions. 

First, does law school prepare you for the bar? Well, sort of. I can't
provide a better answer because I think law school alone generally doesn't
prepare you for the bar. I do think some of my classes in law school
prepared me better than others. I took the Barbri prep course this winter,
and throughout that course, I really felt which classes prepared me better
than others. This was largely because of the professor rather than the
school itself. For example, I felt like I learned contracts in a new way in
my course that worked for me better than my actual contracts class. But my
evidence class prepared me so well for the bar that I generally scored
higher in all my evidence question sets. 

I went to school in a UBE jurisdiction, Washington, DC. But plenty of people
at my school planned to take the bar in other places. Virginia, for example,
is a popular bar spot over here, even though it's one of the toughest bars
in the area. 

I was planning to take the bar in DC all along, in part because it is a UBE
jurisdiction, and in part because it was the most convenient. I was not
going to travel hours to the capital of Virginia to take the bar there and
stay in a hotel. That wasn't happening. 

If you don't know where you will land after law school, planning to take the
UBE might be a good idea. But I completely agree that you should pick a law
school because of its programs rather than because it will prepare you for
the bar. It might be a good question to ask when you apply, but I wouldn't
put much weight on the answer, unless the school just doesn't care about
preparing you at all. I chose my school because of its excellent public
interest program, and I wasn't disappointed in that regard. 

Hope this helps,

Julie

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Subject: [blindLaw] Law School & Uniform Bar Exam

Hi All,

I am reaching out with a question regarding law school and the uniform bar
exam.

One of my supervisors from a previous legal internship told me that the main
purpose of law school is to teach you how to think about the law and how do
think like a lawyer. With that in mind, I was wondering whether law school
actually helps to prepare its students for the bar? Does it depend on the
school? is this a question I should ask while deciding which school to
attend?

If law schools do, in fact, prepare you for the bar, then am I correct in
thinking the following:
If I want to have the freedom to practice law in a range of states due to
the fact that I do not yet know where I would want to settle down following
graduation from law school, it makes sense for me to attend law school in a
jurisdiction that offers the under the uniform bar exam. Therefore,
attending law school in a state that does not offer the uniform bar exam
would drastically limit my options following law school graduation, unless I
was willing to take numerous bar exams. Is my frame of thinking correct
here?

Thank you so much!

Warm Regards,
Natasha
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