For those who have become lawyers from 1996-2006

[John Stanley]

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

[brian dunigan]

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

[david_dornblaser]

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

[brian dunigan]

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

[mike hartup]

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

[Zach Matthews]

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.

[mike hartup]

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

[brian dunigan]

Is that a state reciprocity issue?

Yes.

bd

[adams]

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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