Q: What do they call 1000 lawyers at the bottom of the sea?











A: Harvard Law School Graduating Class of 3006.

I've never passed a bar in my life (hic)

Congratualations, amro, way to go.

Nice going amro! Congratulations!

/secretly always wished he had gone to law school.

I had a boss who insisted that I should have been a lawyer because I could win pretty much any argument - but I talked him out of it.

Oh, yeah - CONGRATUFREAKINLATIONS!

amro, esq. has a nice ring to it. Congratulations!

w00t!

Wow. Phenomenal.

Congrats. Mind me asking which state? (Save me some research please)

Thanks all... terrapin, I passed in Pennsylvania. I also took the New Jersey bar exam, but they don't release the results for that one for another month.

Cool. Lots of my friends go to Vermont Law School and one has to take the New Jersey bar, which he says is considered to be harder than some other states.

Congrats again!

YAY Amro! Kudos to yudos. :D

Are you running a "Hey, I Just Passed The Bar" special discount? Or, giving away a bunny to each new client?

You should go answer a few AskMe questions so you can write IAAL!

Woo hoo! Congrats, amro!

Two, four, six, eight,
That's how you interrogate!
Rah!
Rah!
Amro!

Congrats.

Q:
What's brown and looks good on a lawyer?

A:
A pit bull.

Congrats, amro !

Congratulations! That's a huge achievement!

YAY. Congratulations.

Q: What do they call 1000 lawyers at the bottom of the sea?


A: A good start.


The old ones are always the best.

Congrats on your passing. Now go and be one of the .00001% of lawyers that aren't evil, money-grabbing scumbags.

I salute your intellectual accomplishment, and I fear for your soul. Congratulations and condolences.

Congrats, amro!!

The percentage is better than that, dg. I work in legal publishing - have for the last decade - and have known lots of lawyers and dated a number of them (my most serious relationship was with a lawyer and he's still a friend). I usually find them sympatico. I like people who not only know how to reason but who base their entire outlook and all their actions on reason. I've known a few obnoxious ones who have to "win" every discussion, but they are the minority and I bet they were that way before going to law school.

Yeah, I know that, orange Swan. I also like the idea of people who use reason and logic to base decisions on. My percentage was pretty much tongue-in-cheek. Also, every profession has its fair share of arseholes and I suspect that the legal profession is probably not the top of the list in that respect.

No one's quoted Shakespeare yet?

OK, I won't either.

Congrats, amro!

I passed the bar exam!

All I can say is, whenever I pass a bar exam, I roll up my windows and lock the doors. Usually, though, I just stay out of that end of town.

Congratulations amro!

Congrats!

Now if we can only get a bunny announcing that they're a CPA, a small business accountant or a personal financial advisor...

Well done, amro! *shakes your hand, slaps your shoulder, gives in and hugs you*

Recognition for many years of hard slog, and good tools to do it with. Use your license for good and not for evil, grasshopper. (As if there's any doubt.)

Q: What's the difference between a dead lawyer on the road and a dead rattlesnake on the road?

A: The skidmarks in front of the rattlesnake.

Congratulations, amro! What kind of law are you interested in doing?

Congratulations, amro!

Congrats! Yay you!

Congratulations amro. I remember the day I passed my exams, my husband had gone out at 5am to the local newsagent to buy the first issue of The Times where the results were published, and we danced around in the front garden like a couple of loonies.

And just think, you will never have to take another exam ever again!!!

jason's_planet, I seem to be stumbling into matrimonial law lately, although my original intent was to practice employment law. essexjan - didn't you practice matrimonial?

congratulations :)

Yay, yet another lawyerbunny! well done. :)

Congrats amro! :D I hope you had an awesome celebration!

Hooray, amro!!!!!!!!!!!

Fantastic, amro!!!! What kind of law will you practice?

Ugh, family law. That is the nastiest area of law. I often tell people if they want a heart breaking read, to forget Anna Karenina and her ilk and read case law.

essexjan - didn't you practice matrimonial?

Yes. Very little law involved.

"Oh yes you did."
"Oh no I didn't"
"Oh yes you did"

and

"If he's having the Rod Stewart CDs, I want the Elton John"
(in those situations, I was often tempted to slap a tenner on the desk and say, look, just piss off and buy another copy, but that wasn't the point, oh no, that wasn't the point at all)

and, worst of all, the disputes involving the children.

Me to client: "Look, we're in court on Tuesday, so please, pleeeaaase, don't go round this weekend. You know what happened last time, and you know she'll deliberately try to provoke you."

Client: "Yes, I promise".

Monday morning, client phones: "I'm at the police station, I was arrested yesterday when I went round there ..."

I then have to drop everything to get this asshole out of jail, and then when he doesn't get to see the kids because the hearing on Tuesday is totally fucked due to him being in jail, it somehow is all my fault.

I cannot stress this strongly enough: DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES GO INTO FAMILY LAW IF YOU WANT TO HAVE ANY KIND OF LIFE OUTSIDE THE OFFICE.

It is crisis-led, so you are never, ever able to plan your workload, because you never know when someone comes in needing an urgent restraining order and then everything has to be put on hold, the day you've planned to catch up with all your paperwork is screwed, because you have to drop everything to go to do this.

So, you spend the morning preparing the papers, you meet the client at court at lunchtime, get the order, arrange for it to be served on the other party, then get back to the office at 4pm.

There are 25 phone messages. You are on the phone until 7.30 returning calls. Then you have to start on the paperwork you absolutely have to get done that day.

This is not an isolated one-off scenario. It would happen probably at least once a week. My usual office hours were 7.30am to 10.30pm, plus extra hours at weekends.

Most of the clients were ok, they were no trouble and did as they were asked, but probably 20% were complete total bitches/assholes, who had absolutely no insight whatsoever that their own behaviour might be contributing to the fact that their life is completely shitty and fucked up, and somehow my inability to magic a new and wonderful life for them means that I deserve nothing but abuse.

Jeez, that was a rant, but it made me really, really, really glad that I'm not doing that kind of work any more. I wouldn't do it for a million pounds a year.

DO NOT DO IT, AMRO, PLEASE DO NOT DO IT.

mazel tov amro, that is wonderful.

Congradulamations, amro!

The devil visited a lawyer's office and made him an offer. "I can arrange some things for you, " the devil said. "I'll increase your income five-fold. Your partners will love you; your clients will respect you; you'll have four months of vacation each year and live to be a hundred. All I require in return is that your wife's soul, your children's souls, and their children's souls rot in hell for eternity."

The lawyer thought for a moment. "What's the catch?" he asked.

Go amro! You'll be a wonderful lawyer, I'm sure.

Most of the clients were ok, they were no trouble and did as they were asked, but probably 20% were complete total bitches/assholes

I would add that the 20% of clients who were trouble took up 80% of the day. Demanding, ungrateful, with unrealistic expectations.

Congratulations, Amro!! Very cool! Of course, now you'll be inundated with "hypothetical" questions at dinner parties and such.

wooohooo! congrats!