I just agreed to take the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination for no other reason than C.S. asking me if I would. This has no benefit to me personally as I didn't score high enough on the multiple choice section of the bar exam to waive into the District of Columbia bar (missed it by three points). The only reason I'm going to do this is because my friend asked.
Probably not going to even study that hard for it, as it is an ethics exam, and I'd like to think that I've cultivated a fairly sharp sense of ethics over the years. Really, I'm just going in for firsthand moral support. Is this the essence of friendship? Probably not, but I'm sacrificing a Saturday morning potentially, so maybe it is.
It feels strange, though. It's cracking open long crusted-over wounds, but instead of pain, I just sort of feel neutral. None of the experience ever happened to me. I just went to sleep for three and a half years and awoke with this knowledge. And now, perhaps this coda to the experience. At least, until I am forced to pay dues to renew my Maryland bar membership.
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What in the world? Who is this exam geared towards?
It's required in most jurisdictions in the United States to join that jurisdiction's bar association. Maryland is one of the few exceptions. The ethics test is incorporated into the state bar exam. Given the current state of lawyerism in the country, you have to wonder whether a simple ethics test is enough.
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