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ry much doubt mrs i de s will become a mere historical curiosity in my lifetime share this print opens in new window print share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr email a link to a friend opens in new window email more share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest like loading date october 4 2018 tags assault law school lesson life male attitudes towards women misogyny in the law sex discrimination tort law women as property comments 7 comments life lesson from law school standard as some of you may know i became a lawyer in my mid fifties the process of becoming one has therefore probably remained clearer in my memory than it might have been if i had done it in my twenties i ve even occasionally blogged about certain aspects of law school that seemed to me to remain relevant to life outside the law this piece and the one to follow appeared in the getting old blog about four years ago but who digs back in the archives that far so here they are again in slightly different form because they re still useful to me even now that i ve embarked on being old this lesson is instructive the next one will be illustrative what to do when you re too nervous to do it in england i believe it s known as reading law that makes it sound very grand although i understand you can get right to it after finishing secondary school as long as you ve passed three a levels in hard that is traditional academic subjects here in the united states it s just called quite casually going to law school but you need four years of college or university education and an undergraduate degree in something or other in order to apply nonetheless unlike many other graduate programs and contrary to what you may have thought law school is much more a glorified trade school than an immersion in higher thought when you finally acquire the j d degree j d meaning j uris doctor or doctor of law you re not yet entitled to practice there s another hurdle ahead you must take and pass one last big test in a state or states of your choosing and that s what you really need the j d degree for it s your entry ticket to sitting for the bar sitting for the bar means you register to take and then actually take a two day examination three days if you re sitting for two state bars at a time each day s part is six hours in length with an hour s break after the first three hours for lunch and for standing in long bathroom lines it s administered in a huge aerodrome or covered stadium designated by the state in question as the place where its bloodless torture takes place twice a year the size of the venue is driven by the fact that as many as 1500 newly minted j d s may be taking the bar exam at the same time in addition to the ones who failed their first or second try and have to try again only when you ve at last passed the bar may you finally proceed to the practice of law and find out how little you really learned about it in law school you will either 1 become an associate at a private law firm 2 find a municipal state or federal government job as a lawyer 3 go what is called in house as a member of the legal staff of a corporation or 4 hang up your own shingle quaint phrase usually because none of the other three possibilities have panned out but let s back up although i don t know what s involved in learning how to be a plumber or electrician i imagine the subject matter to be mastered for those trades must be broken down into manageable bits so it is in law school allegedly learning how to be a lawyer is broken down into various subject matters to be mastered most of them in year long courses the specific choice of first year course work may vary from law school to law school in the end however all law schools will cover the six courses we took during my first year four of them ran from september through may property law contract law tort law and civil procedure a fifth course in criminal law was tested at the end of the first semester and replaced in the spring by constitutional law which was tested at the end of may together with the four that had run for the whole year that s right five examinations at the end of the first year and the first and only examinations we would have on each of those five subjects each exam lasted three hours and consisted of three long paragraph accounts of complicated hypothetical fact situations which between them raised every possible legal issue that had arisen in any case discussed or even mentioned in that course since september we were advised to write for an hour on each hypothetical but for no more than an hour quickly identifying and explaining every legal issue we had spotted bathroom break take it at your peril leaving the room would mean less time to write fewer issues spotted brilliance on one hypothetical did not compensate for ignorance on another failing an exam meant having to repeat the year long course doing poorly in any exam adversely affected one s class rank an extremely important consideration in securing a first job unless one of your parents or relatives knew somebody understandably there was much growing tension in the classroom as the weeks of may rolled by many of us myself included were there on federally backed student loans which would need to be repaid irrespective of the outcome of these exams some students were the first in their families to go to graduate school not making it would mean not making a family s dream come true the school had thoughtfully provided a ten day study period following the end of classes before the first exam was scheduled to take place but how do you study when you re too nervous to focus on anything except the possibility of impending doom the youngest of our professors was an attractive woman who may have been a bit past thirty but certainly no more than thirty five this was only her second year as a member of the law faculty it was known that she had taught fourth grade for a few years before going to law school she brought a touch of the kindly and patient manner with which one instructs young children to teaching us which was perhaps an error of style when addressing an auditorium full of twenty somethings plus me what s more although she taught civil procedure which governs courtroom practice in civil cases she had never actually practiced law she may not have even sat for a bar she was slender shapely had great legs and wore high heels to show them off which was much appreciated by the young men in the class but did nothing to enhance her reputation as a professor to be respected for her knowledge on the final day we met with us she did a quick review of what we might anticipate could be on the civil procedure exam at last she put down her pointer and chalk turned to us and said she knew we were all very nervous she had been through it herself not so long before so she understood completely and then this pretty woman with the gorgeous gams said something so important and so applicable to so many other aspects of life that i ve never forgotten it although by now i ve forgotten almost everything i memorized that year you may be so nervous she said that you re too nervous to study so this is what you do now no one was looking at her legs we were all listening very carefully what you should do when you re too nervous to study she said is study and then the nervousness will go away i was nearly fifty two as old as the mothers of my classmates they called me mrs mishkin very politely but not one of them had invited me into a study group at the beginning of the year i had to do all the class outlines by myself i hadn t taken an exam except the one in criminal law for twenty seven years the word nervous doesn t begin to describe my state of mind my husband had been out of work for well over a year i had two adolescent children i had done this all on loans but i took her advice and studied and studied and studied some more and the nervousness did go away when the class rankings were posted after the grades were in on all five exams i found myself tied for first place in a class of 345 that rank opened doors for interviews in major boston law firms despite my age one of those interviews and all it takes is one one of those interviews led to a job that brought money into our family again paid for braces sneakers music lessons good private schools that s why what i heard on the last day of the civil procedure class in may 1983 was the most useful lesson i learned in law school there would be many more nervous making situations ahead beginning with sitting for the bar then came standing up in court in front of judges known to be misogynist leaving a marriage after twenty two years being let go in my sixties and having to find respectable interesting work again at that age more recently needing to pull myself up from a nearly fatal medical experience and its aftermath but i ve never forgotten that when you re too nervous to do something just do it the nervousness will go away and then who knows what good things will happen next share this print opens in new window print share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr email a link to a friend opens in new window email more share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest like loading date october 3 2018 tags advice law school learning how to tough it out life life lesson memoir memories nervousness sitting for the bar suffolk university law school comments 16 comments game changer name changer standard readers for whom new posts from this blog arrive via email may not have noticed between the last post and this one the getting old blog acquired a new name it was time how long can you go on getting old without eventually reaching your destination the getting old blog began life nearly five years ago in november 2013 this was after three weeks or so of baby step experimentation in learning to blog still out there in the ethernet if you re interested although i don t see why anyone would be despite the scary sounding year of my birth 1931 i didn t feel particularly old at 82 and thought a blog marking my passage into the later years might be a good place to park bits of memoir old folks tend to look back memoir disguised as fiction and general reflections on what was happening to me as i reluctantly rolled towards becoming 83 and then 84 and so forth but as you ve already read two posts back in so what happened last year was for a nanosecond the end of me having your heart stop beating although they get it going again really does change the rules of the game not to mention the months and months of medical and pharmaceutical tribulation that necessarily follow such a near terminal event who was i kidding with this getting old stuff i was old i am old in bed at night with the lights out i can still fantasize that a near crazed with lust eighteen year old is pressing hard and stiff against my luscious seventeen year old body it helps of course if i m on my back and an eleven pound cat is lying vertically on top of my mid section or else pushing in rhythmically with its two front paws you think that s funny with the lights on i do too i know what i look like undressed i still have a full length mirror i ve been called a lot of things in my life but no one ever called me stupid one of my grandsons who at twelve of course knows nothing of his nana s occasional nighttime fantasies tried to reassure me last week that you re only as old as you feel like many pre adolescents he s a sponge for grown up expressions even though he still lacks the life experience to know when they re cliches to which i immediately replied that s a lot of crap and everyone burst out laughing partly because it s true but also because 87 year old grandmas aren t expected to say crap out loud at least not in the suburbs of brandon florida i ve therefore been thinking for a while of what to rename the blog some ideas while there s still time or near journey s end were too funereal what it s like to be 87 was appealing i could change the number each time i acquired another birthday but it would be inaccurate each of us ages somewhat differently and what 87 is like for me will not reflect the experience of every 87 year old woman i seem to be an outlier one example only i know a number of near 87 year old women who sleep with their cats but are glad at least they say they re glad their sex lives are over hand holding might be all right but anything more than that no siree an expression that dates them as much as anything bottom line on being old seemed most descriptive without necessarily being depressing it s also an accommodating title it can encompass scraps of memoir as well as details of my life in a so called over 55 but really more like over 70 or over 75 community in fact it will accommodate just about anything about being me at this stage of my life whatever that stage is so welcome to on being old don t get hung up on the new name and go away it s really just the same old same old me selfie taken in florida last week slightly retouched but only slightly the sunglasses do help share this print opens in new window print share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr email a link to a friend opens in new window email more share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest like loading date september 20 2018 tags acceptance being old blog name change cats cliches learning to blog life lust me the getting old blog what 87 is like comments 24 comments new travel companion standard it s called an oximeter as you may recall in april i made a deal with the cardiologist who had brought me back from near death in a hospital procedure room the previous december and two months later also got me out of a fib he agreed to let me go off amiodorone amiodorone is the med that was keeping a fib at bay but also making me feel like a stumbling zombie in exchange i was to check my heart rate every morning before i got out of bed any number between 60 and 100 beats a minute was good to go over 100 beats the a fib was back what then call the cardiologist and get ready for another cardioversion allegedly a day procedure the second time to check your heart rate these days you don t have to count your pulse beats against a stop watch the old fashioned way now there s the oximeter a gadget just about the size it looks in the picture on a desk top and named for the first of its two functions determining the oxygen level in your blood as a pulmonary fibrosis patient bill had two of them one on each...