Now that everyone on our trial team has gotten the chance to sleep and recover from the 18 day trial our office just concluded, I have to congratulate everyone, but especially
@MikeTrentalange
, on the incredible verdict recovered for our client. Excellent job!!!
Just saw a girl in the lobby of my hotel cutting the hood off of her sweater so that she can wear it to the bar exam and I'm just wondering if all the "I had to do it, and you should too" lawyers really had to deal with similarly insane security measures.
I failed the Florida Bar. But passed the MBE.
I have worked in a Florida law firm for 7 years.
This test is not a metric of my ability to practice law and should not be used to bar people from entry to the profession.
#AbolishtheBarExam
@DoctorRobin
@correctist
@Mjarchie1
@Tesla
Yeah, the jaws of life are for cars whose doors don't open after being *smashed in* during a collision, or because a dash has collapsed onto a person's legs maxing extraction impossible, not because the doors simply don't work with the car off.
There wasn't a collision here.
#TyreNichols
was beaten by Memphis police so badly during a traffic stop that he died in the hospital three days later. The DOJ has opened an investigation.
MPD is delaying the release of bodycam footage. They're likely gathering crowd control resources ahead of the release.
Is there a valid reason I can't bring snacks to the bar exam?
Like why do I need to get an accommodation to have a protein bar?
Don't say it because of distraction because there was a fucking pigeon in the testing room last time.
@RGTube
@margotsworld
@treclements
@sarahlugor
Hi I'm just a law student but it absolutely matters how long ago it was. There are these things called statutes of limitations that control whether you can bring a claim.
The limit in Florida for fraud is 4 years I think.
@BvtchyMia
@JaassiBlk
@1itosspot
Mia is trying very hard to get an invite to the "private" island where she too can expose the poors to her germs while they serve her.
Lending her time money and voice to show just how little rich pieces of shit care about their employees' lives.
This just in: if I catch you in my mentions over-explaining (to a millennial) how earbuds work, or championing this god-forsaken test as a protective measure for the legal system at large, I WILL BLOCK YOU, I DO NOT GIVE A SINGLE SHIT.
@DoctorRobin
@correctist
@Mjarchie1
@Tesla
"past" must also be a kind description for how long it's been since you were an EMT, because the jaws of life stopped being regularly used around a decade ago, in favor of lighter and easier to use cutters and spreaders.
@Spectralindigo
@AirborneYYC
@BobbBil
@jtbfan69
I read articles about old shopping malls being made into apartments years ago. This is totally doable. I assumed you meant after a proper renovation, not that someone would set up vitamin a defunct GAP or Limited Too store— like this.
Good morning! Now that I have finished the exam I am back on my
#AbolishtheBar
bullshit.
I will never get over the fact that the NCBE is based in Wisconsin, and several of their presidents have never sat for the Bar Exam because they enjoyed DIPLOMA PRIVILEGE.
Y'all. Of course I bookmarked the "annoy an ER doc in one tweet," thread. I work at a medical malpractice firm.
Looks like silly goofy impeachment material to me!
If your site cannot handle all of your users trying to do your assigned tasks at the time you assigned them, you have oversold your product. Your product is not books or the Uworld Q Bank. It is your website and the access to it.
Our maintenance window has been lifted and our site is now fully accessible. Again, we apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience.
Looking for something truly scary to watch?
Try "Host" on
@Shudder
. It's uniquely and completely terrifying.
I screamed at the actual top of my lungs at the television, twice. The film is an hour long.
Five Skulls. 💀
@Kayla_Applebum
They don't do mouth-to-mouth anymore, regardless of pandemic.
It turns out that "Rescue breaths" of exhaled CO2 don't actually do anything to save you.
@phoebecaroline_
@betterwphoebe
A lot of those resources were allocated to other counties as the projected path changed multiple times in the days before the storm. The resources that were available were quickly overwhelmed because of the shortened time period. They simply weren't enough.
So apparently this needs to be said:
I shouldn't have to ask men not to treat me as a sexual object in conversations about my career. I have a zero tolerance for this, I will simply block you and move on.
Don't shoot your shot in a conversation about the bar exam.
This may be a niche issue, but it definitely doesn't do anything for your mental health that the same people who grilled you in your CF hearing about your whole life are the ones proctoring the exam and looking over your shoulder. Loved that whole experience.
@houseofcarlyle
Emesis bags (like air sick bags but plastic) are very reasonably priced on Amazon. I had a couple year period where I had overwhelming nausea and vomiting, and I couldn't stand to use any more bowls or pots.
I trust that none of you “former servers” who routinely tip less have uttered the phrase “if you can’t afford to tip, you can’t afford to eat out,” after being stiffed by a table, right?
Right?
@MykullG
Okay I revise my previous statement to account for racist servers, because they definitely exist.
Any server who ascribes to racial stereotypes regarding tips deserves none.
@CanadianKayMD
@docksidelove
How about when they're medical patients and the doctor suggesting they stop gives zero alternatives to treat their pain or anxiety? Provide alternatives and the patients may be more inclined to at least try abstaining than with the suggestion of quitting with no safety net.
Just to be clear: I am a retaker, this is my 5th attempt on the Florida bar exam. The difference this time is that I actually had ten solid weeks to devote to study, every day.
The Bar Exam tests privilege, plain and simple—that's why it should be abolished.
I love bar exam tweets like this because inevitably the replies boil down to: "legal careers end up being highly individualized and absolutely zero lawyers use every body of law tested on the bar in their careers."
#abolishthebarexam
@Kennedy__Womack
I failed again too. You didn't let anyone down. This system and the way it treats grads let us both down. It's abhorrent and serves no purpose. We're more than this test.
My mom just told me one time she loaned her car to a man she was dating, and then he pretty much ghosted her. So she went to his apartment complex and pulled the ignition coils off the car. He called her and was like "your car won't start," and she replied "no shit give it back."
@taboo_red
@aswinn
I'm just wondering why the pandemic is somehow responsible for the speech delay in a kid who had eight years pre-pandemic to learn to speak? Do you not speak to your kids? You know people not wearing masks have prolonged this situation right?
@phoebecaroline_
@betterwphoebe
The space in shelters was not adequate. They also require that you bring only the bare necessities of your belongings and frequently do not allow pets. The track of the storm was such that even inland areas were inundated by flooding, which also affected shelters there.
Got confirmation yesterday that test-takers in Florida will not be required to wear masks while sitting at their individual seats for the Feb 2022 exam.
Just checking in to say I have finished 50% of my bar prep assignments (and I got extra stuff through a very cool tutoring company) and I'm not feeling confident at all and am absolutely certain that I am retaining absolutely nothing.
#AbolishtheBarExam
Austin Lee Edwards isn't just a "Virginia man," nor is he just a "former Virginia police officer,"
He was an active deputy sheriff when he catfished a teen.
He's only a former cop now because his buddies in blue made him a former person at the same time.
@JC26262626
@the_transit_guy
I live in one of the fastest growing cities in the United States but it would take me multiple days to get to work by bus and we don't have any trains. I'll complain about cars while I sit in my car in traffic until I'm given another option, thanks.
I'm sorry, you did it on purpose?
You're telling me y'all intentionally made the whole site not work and didn't send anyone notification that y'all were doing so? In the middle of the day? A couple weeks before the exam?
And then you call it proactive to do the fix overnight?
They're gonna delete this tweet when they get the site back up so test takers don't know not to use their product because every time they schedule a simulated test their site crashes.
I failed the bar for a third time. I wish I could tell you by how much, but yet again the Florida Board of Bar Examiners cannot manage to find a way to make their site able to handle the traffic which they know is coming, on the two days a year they themselves choose.
@odd_opinions5
@ScottHech
He offered no statement at all. The Court comments on the lack of statement.
Have you ever lived in Orlando? I once got caught on the 528 at 1130pm for two hours. The guy got caught in traffic, how did you make the leap to attempted sexual assault from that?
@think_divergent
@danidonovan
This is why I try to keep saltines and pedialyte in the house. If I can stomach the salines, it helps to get something in my stomach to make the nausea go away. If I can't tolerate the food, I'll grab the pedialyte.
When all else fails, Ensure or equivalent helps, too!
Found out the guy sitting behind me during the bar exam is staying in the hotel room across from me. He mentioned that he could hear the woman in the room across the hall from him throwing up yesterday morning around 530, so I asked his room #.
I was the vomiting woman.
HEY!!
If you're studying for the Florida Bar: I made you this "Florida Civ Pro Timing to do Shit" chart and you can have the word doc too if you DM me your email address.
This extends to the shockingly low wages of all law school student workers. RA's and TA's, sometimes fellows.
I got paid Florida minimum wage to work for my law school as a TA and a fellow. It was a slap in the face.
On the MBE the distinction between forgery and false pretenses is that forgery is duplication of a thing with legal significance and false pretenses can include duplication of a thing of social significance.
Check? Forgery. Painting? False pretenses.
@odd_opinions5
@ScottHech
the asshat blocked me but maybe he should try reading himself:
"Here... Mr. Timke has not disclosed any purpose
for his evening trip downtown... he was not legally
required to explain what he was doing before the curfew violation,"
I’d really like to know how much I missed it by, but I can’t accomplish that because the FB*E website is garbage.
They have two functions and one of them is administering the bar exam so it’s wild that they can’t handle the traffic the two times a year THEY KNOW ITS COMING.
Someone explain to me how, to prove my minimal legal competence, I have to know the relevant portions of FL Crim Pro, when THOSE SAME RULES say that, once licensed, I am not competent to defend someone in ANY FELONY case without completing a CLE first?
Contradictory much?
For the MBE, with regard to the tort of battery: A person is presumed to have consented to "the ordinary contacts of daily life," (like being bumped in a crowd or tapped on the shoulder on a bus) even when serious damage results.
Would all of your heads explode if I told you I tipped like this when on vacation in places where tipping isn’t customary? (I do)
What if I told you I tip MORE where tips are supposedly included, even while abroad? (Yes, duh)
@LolOverruled
Be strong. You are on the right side. The maid of honor from my wedding unfriended me last week, and my mom isn't talking to me right now. These are hard times, they require hard work. Not all of that work is in the street. ❤️
I'm finding it very fucking hard to go to court today.
To put on my silly little suit and pretend like I believe in justice; Or rather, that I believe that the court is capable of delivering it.
Just really quick: if all the proctors at the Florida exam are volunteers, and all of the things provided to us (chairs, tables, pens, etc.) are the shittiest cheapest versions possible, why exactly is it so expensive to take the bar? Where does the money go?
@KatenCheyenne
@martiansunset
@eeberquist
@meabh_mcmahon
I have no dog in this fight but it is absolutely sending me that you're accusing people of "misuse and misunderstanding of basic words" but also used the phrase "on a role" which is a misuse and misunderstanding of the phrase "on a roll."
I did it.
I sat through both days of the Florida Bar exam with either a pulled or spasming muscle in my neck.
I don't know if I passed but I took the whole stupid fucking test and I finished it.
#Abolishthebarexam
Seeing a lot of folks showing up to try to redefine the term "ambulance chaser," to include only those attorneys who behave unethically.
As an ambulance chaser myself, y'all should maybe look up what it means. And I hope none of you ever need an ambulance chaser yourselves.
Sometimes your landlord will try to do minor fuckshit, and it feels dumb to quibble about it. But you have me fucked up if I'm going to let you do anything *at all* to me that is in violation of the meager tenant protections that we have in the hellscape that is Florida.
@What_WasISaying
Also: cleaning is always a daunting task. ADHD makes it incredibly difficult to decide where to start, and keep focused on one thing till it's complete. I often get distracted in the middle of a task and begin cleaning a whole different area.
@attorney_anna
A roach crawled across my table during one of the testing sessions and I smashed it with my test booklet so honestly I enjoyed the bird much more.
@sweetabolition
I hated every single one for this section. If I could remember a string of nonsense words, I would just remember the nonsense words I need to know!!
Some MBE Con Law tips this morning:
The only time Congress has the power to do stuff "for the general welfare," is under the spending power.
Congress doesn't have a general police power.
Necessary and proper is only half the answer, if it's freestanding it's not right.
MBE Evidence fun here:
Witnesses should not be impeached on collateral matters.
But remember that Bias, Prejudice, and Interest are never collateral matters on cross-examination.
The Italian phrase for "good luck" is "In Bocca al lupo." Which translates to "into the wolf's mouth."
The response is "crepi il lupo," basically "may the wolf die."
But I can never remember the response so I usually just say "Fuck that wolf!" In English instead.
@leniny_snicket
@jamesldowns
diagnosis ≠ treatment.
Therapists can't diagnose anything at all, so what would their job be if that was a requirement for treatment?