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Friday Reading Assignment

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For all the budding attorneys out there, it’s that time of year again - the Bar Exam is nigh. So in honor of these poor suckers, take a couple of minutes to be entertained by reading Trials and Tribulations: What to Expect While Taking the Bar Exam, which includes truisms such as:

“Nothing good ever happens to the people in practice bar exam questions. Everyone who crosses the street gets hit by a car, every doctor botches the surgery, parachutes never open, contracts never get fulfilled, anyone who uses a lawnmower ends up in the hospital, as soon as you write a will your whole family dies, employee benefit plans never pay out their benefits, computers all get viruses, your friends are always intoxicated, stealing your farm equipment, and driving it into the barn, police search you all the time for no good reason, you can never find a good place to hide your weapons, banks never recognize a signature as a forgery, and the forger always flees the country.”