Fordham Law LL.M. student Amber Melville-Brown wrote a piece for The Brief (UK) about the rigorous schedule one has to maintain while preparing for the New York bar examination.
My first semester at law school as I endeavour to qualify as a New York attorney came to an end rather suddenly in December and the beginning of the year heralded exam preparation week, followed by exam week.
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Full from years of media law experience back in Blighty, with client care expertise as long as my arm and lawyering intelligence acquired over decades, my brain fought back as I entered the exam fray.
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This new flavour of American law did not go down easily and did not sit well during the exam period. It seems I was getting an early, nauseating idea of the regurgitation required during the Bar exam.
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At Fordham we are in state-of-the-art lecture theatres, answering three-hour, multiple choice and essay question exams on our laptops. And there is no chance that we can simply look up the answers on Google: our computers are tranquilised with Exam4 software, meaning we can only use them only as an old-school typewriter.
Some subjects are examined by way of course work and memo drafting. That we are truly two countries divided by a common language becomes obvious in legal writing and research class.