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If it’s anything like my experience, it’ll be a wildly entertaining flick

The WSJ Law Blog reports that a documentary entitled A Lawyer Walks Into a Bar will be debuting at the South by Southwest Festival next month in Austin. The documentary follows six lawyer-hopefuls as they study for last July’s California bar exam (California has the distinction of being the only consecutive three-day bar exam in the U.S., and is considered one of the toughest, along with New York, Texas and Virginia).

One of the test takers in the documentary is Donal Baumeister, an ex-Marine, who had failed the California bar 41 times and is shown in the movie gearing up for attempt #42. Semper Fi, indeed.

I’m not exactly sure how interesting a documentary about six people studying will be, particularly if these folks are actually doing the study and preparation they should be doing. However, if they’re preparing for the California bar exam the way I did many a summer ago, the film could awesome. That movie would include a house full of recent law school grads all studying for different bar exams with varying degrees of seriousness, a lot of drinking, naked Texas co-eds, a lot of drinking, drunken bicycle lessons at 3 a.m., a lot of drinking, a rapidly gorwing ledge full of empty cigarette packs smoked by the housemates in just the two months of study time, a lot of drinking, the appearance of several holes in the walls, a lot of drinking, some of the angriest intra-relationship fighting you’ll ever see (which may or may not have something to do with some of the wall-holes), a lot of drinking, and last but certainly not least, a lot of drinking.

Oh, and teriyaki.

Posted by Seth on February 26, 2007 | Comments (4)