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Foist . . .
Those of you who have transitioned from billables to plaintiff’s side personal injury – do you like it? would you do it again?
Different stresses. The billables are not the biggest difference or the reason to change. But I like making decisions based on what I think is the best thing for my case and my client a lot more than the motives that drove my work on Defense.
Plaintiff’s side motivations: I like to help the little guy. Also, I do enjoy a good steak.
Defense motivations: I enjoying eating from time to time.
I just want an awesome fight with people smarter than me. I don’t care how you pay me as long as the check clears and the case is fun.
Amen!
Bar Exam
Continuing over from Friday’s comment on the Bar exam.
The MBE tests depth and breadth of knowledge. The essays only involve basic law, but importantly tests the ability of the applicant to spot issues and write about them. The performance exam is a waste of time.
So now we have done away with both because a small group of academics believe that somehow it is unfair for certain population groups to have to learn the same law as everyone else, so law schools and bar exams should be less rigorous, easier.
But imagine if the same were to happen in medicine or accounting. Allow a doctor to practice based on a 100-question online exam?
Agreed. Imagine needing surgery and your surgeon took his licensure exam online. That wouldn’t instill confidence.
The essays on the bar exam are not about spotting legal issues —they’re about furiously dumping out an outline for the topic area covered. Accuracy doesn’t matter; you can include blatantly incorrect analyses as long as you make sure that you have a topic header within the particular area of law tested. For example, if a question involves the UCC only, you still have to discuss related common law principles because this is an outline dump exercise. For the essays, all you have to do is figure out what area of law is being tested (like Torts, Contracts, or Property), throw in your headers, and place a bunch of facts under that header, even if they are not exactly correct. This approach favors those who memorize and regurgitate outlines over those who focus on precise legal reasoning. That’s why people who can barely think critically about the law still pass, while more analytical thinkers often struggle—they prioritize correctness over coverage.
I’ve had long discussions with attorneys who grade the essay portions of the bar exams. Your understanding is completely wrong. What you’ve said might be true in the context of a law school essay, but that is not how the bar essays work.
The people who grade bar exams have stated that they look for the general outline and spend approximately one minute grading each essay. They don’t do deep analyses. They can’t.
Stop doubling down on your wrong opinion. The graders have a checklist of issues covered in each essay. If an answer covers the issue, it gets a checkmark. Your example that someone would hypothetically get points for writing about common-law principles on a purely UCC question is blatantly incorrect.
What makes you think I don’t know about the checklist of issues? You can only have a checklist if you outline dump. Look at the actual essay responses posted on the Nevada bar website. The analyses are riddled with mistakes, and because different people have different analyses of any given issue, the only thing you *can* test is an outline dump. You are tested on when you can memorize an outline.
“if you can memorize an outline.”
Bad take.
You cant “furiously dump out an outline” is you can’t spot the issues or spot the wrong issues.
Have you actually read the essays on the Nevada Bar website? They post actual essays from actual test takers that are supposed to be the best in each category. They are riddled with mistakes.
And doctors do, in fact, only take multiple-choice exams and questions that test use-cases that don’t require an essay response.
The blog needs to do headlines and a thread on the bar exam. Seems like folks have a lot of opinions on the subject. Just got my Nevada Lawyer and it has a lot of stuff that I never heard about. When did all this happen? How did it happen? Is Nevada’s bar going to be a mess like California when it gets rolled out?
The NextGen and NV changes have been on the radar for more than a year, and were discussed on this blog.
Nevada DMV rolled out a program today that allows you to report cars that are unregistered/no license plate: https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/5ded967fcf704e41a2b21a5d9e38d73a
Report these morons, especially if they have no license plate. These people directly affect our insurance rates.
Be sure to report those ICE vehicles that have no plates on them too.
Sounds like someone just had to register their car.
Snitches get stitches.
good thing you can report anonymously. People that drive unregistered should have their vehicle towed on the spot. No excuse for that scumbag behavior.
Agreed. Tow those scumbag ICE goons’ vehicles.
How does one report a specific car or person for no registration or license plates? Think about how unworkable this really is.
“Red Lincoln Navigator parked on ABC Drive near XYZ Avenue – no license plate.” Seems pretty straightforward to me.
Damn I was only parked there for a minute. They’ll never catch me!
Montana or Wyoming plate (whichever of the two does not collect a registration fee). Get those people.
Every state requires a registration fee. The states you mention just have considerably lower fees than the exorbitant fees charged by Nevada.
@2:50 here
Maybe it is sales tax, but the comment was not intended as fact but rather as conversation. Chill dude.
There are reg fees in Montana. Though they are nominalwhen compared to the highway robbery that is the Nevada DMV.
Kicker, there is no SALES tax on vehicles purchased and then registered in Montana.
You act like metro gives a shit about this issue. They don’t want to do crash reports unless someone is severely injured. They’ve convinced themselves they’re too busy for this and whether they’re right or wrong the number of lawbreakers on the roads has never been higher.
Metro should think this through to the end. If it keeps growing as a problem, eventually it’ll reach their budget. Like it or not, the governmental services tax and supplemental governmental services tax collected as part of vehicle registrations pays for what would otherwise require higher property, sales, or even an income tax (were that not unconstitutional in Nevada) to fund. Or else lawmakers would have to dramatically cut back on public services.
You approach the car while the driver is in it and write down the VIN
The VIN is not a reportable field.
Yeah. Pretty easy. Car with California plates that has been parked next door for two years? Report them. Car with a yellow sticker and a number less than 10? Report them. A car without a license plate that frequents the same spots? Report them.
Just input it in the license plate field anyway and let them sort it out.
There’s an area where you can attach pictures. Literally just walk up, snatch a picture of the VIN, and walk away. Done.
How do we report them if they don’t have a license plate?