Bar Disclosures for the Soul
Most people in the legal world know that you have to make extensive disclosures for the purposes of Bar admission. For me, the most mind boggling are having to list every job since I was 21, and every residence since then as well. That’s about 10 years for me. That’s a residence a year, and probably more than 10 jobs — including all the part time, the unemployment and the self-employment
Are they really going to look at all of that? Maybe just feed it into databases of known offenders, etc? I know what effect it’s having on me. In trying to remember what dates I took what jobs, or left what residenses, I’m searching for clues in all of my memories of this time period. It’s making me go over that part of my life with a fine toothed comb. Remembering what 21, 22, 23 etc.. were like. It’s quite interesting to trace the path from Math major working part time, graduating to be a scientist, a programmer –unemployed, self-employed, non-profit, financial analysis — to being a privacy lawyer.
Maybe thats the point. Right before you become a lawyer, you take stock of what adult life has been like so far. And hopefully that helps. Now that you — to the bar examiners — finally decided what it is you want to do with your life