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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
2) Can you do a clerkship, and take the bar after that? Or maybe your firm will let you take it in Feb.
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I disagree with this. Anything short of triplets and I'd go ahead and take the bar immediately. But if at all possible, don't work while studying for it. No one will blink at just studying for the bar the summer after graduation, but if you try to take it some other time, you'll be studying for the bar, raising a kid,
and working. While it's doable, I think you'll find that the area that gets shortest shrift in that situation is raising the kid, and this will be disappointing to you.
So sign up for Barbri, take a morning class, read another two hours in the library and then go home. Catch another hour or two of study while the kid naps. You'll be okay.
I guess the other question is: do you already have a job in hand? If so, you're in a lot better position. Last semester grades will be much less critical. Getting As when you've got a three day old may be a challenge, but Cs are a different matter. It would be highly unlikely for a firm to pull an offer for bad last semester grades under the particular circumstances.
