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Tuesday, February 21, 2006

I guess he has to cover himself since he's running for Attorney General, but REALLY, what a piece of work Jerry Brown must be

Interviewed for a Los Angeles Times article about how tough the California bar exam (reputedly) is, Jerry Brown managed to spit out an awful lot of extraneous information.
Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown, a former California governor who is running for the Democratic nomination for state attorney general, flunked the bar after "studying a little bit, not too much," following his graduation from Yale Law School.

The exam had questions about community property and wills and estates, subjects Brown had not studied at Yale, and did not reflect the psychiatry and law course that Brown said he took with the daughter of Sigmund Freud or the class in Roman law taught by a famous Oxford scholar.

"Yale was more of an intellectual exercise," said Brown, who passed the second time in 1965.

The bar is not necessarily a good measure of what it takes to be a great lawyer, he said.

"It is more of a rite of passage, a screen to discourage at least half the people," Brown said.
It wasn't clear if the bar-failing man of the people thought that the bar exam should have covered his all-important studies with Anna Freud and the "famous Oxford scholar." And it's disingenous to note that there were subjects on the exam that he didn't study in law school. Taking a bar exam is all about learning some subjects you didn't study in law school.

The State Bar of California reports that in July 2005, the first-time pass rate for (intellectually fit) Yale Law School grads was 95% (38/40).


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