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  • #1877
    John Stanley
    Member

    In reading on the internet, Bar/Bri has settled out a class action lawsuit.

    #15807

    Monopolies, anticompetitive behavior, and inflated pricing notwithstanding, I thought I got my money’s worth out of their program.

    #15808

    The professors who started Bar Bri, are from my law school.

    #15809

    I also should point out that I met my wife in a Barbri class.

    #15810
    mike hartup
    Member

    It looks like the settlement will work out to about $125 per class member.  Woowho! If I talk my wife out of her share, I might have $250 to go towards the purchase of a new fly rod.

    Who am I kidding?  She’ll talk me out of mine and end up with a new tennis racket.

    In all seroiusness, I was pleased with the course and don’t feel like I was overcharged.  I got three years worth of a legal education in just a few short weeks.  What do y’all think about it?

    http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1170410590982

    #15811
    Zach Matthews
    The Itinerant Angler

    I think the average intelligent layperson could pass the bar if they did everything BarBri told them to, but I think the average law school graduate could pass the bar without taking the course in the first place if we weren’t all so easily manipulated by scare tactics and the needless and irrelevant difficulty of the MBE.

    #15812
    mike hartup
    Member

    I didn’t realize that your MBE scores wouldn’t transfer.

    #15813

    Is that a state reciprocity issue?

    Yes.

    bd

    #15814
    adams
    Member

    but the MBE tests law that doesn’t even exist.  Example: to commit common law arson you had to burn a *dwelling* beyond a *substantial scorching.*  That isn’t the law anywhere any more and hasn’t been for years.  Other examples: Man can’t rape his wife.  Common law murder with malice aforethought.  Larceny by trick.  Uttering.  That’s just the criminal law!  What a joke; it’s a hazing process.

    Zach

    Ah, yes, the common law joke.

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