Even the Application for Determination of Moral Character was easy...

gregh — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:24:24 -0500

Young law school grad skips the bars and tries to pass the bar instead:

At an age when most of her peers are just finishing high school and heading to college, the Whittier native is already punching the clock at a Century City law firm.

She has no doubts about acing July's grueling law exam -- the final hurdle to becoming a bona fide lawyer. "I felt the bar exam went very well," she said.

That kind of bravado can be expected from someone who started college at age 10 and entered law school at 15. Holtz graduated from the UCLA School of Law this year.

For those of us wondering things like, "How long did I work for that temp agency in 1994?" her path through the C&F looks easy. Why? Questions like this:

If not presently employed, please so indicate. Then list, to the best of your recollection, all of your employment which is/was law-related since your eighteenth birthday.
...
Also list, to the best of your recollection, all of your employment, businesses, occupations and professions which were not law-related but lasted longer than six (6) months since your eighteenth
birthday.

(Not that I would be flabbergasted to learn that some of my classmates in their 20s have nothing to list, either.)

The article concludes:

Lawyer Chris Lilly, 35, said only one issue arose when Holtz was hired.

"We wondered about child labor laws," he said. "She was only 17 when we recruited her."

Heh. I wonder how many times he's told that one.

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gregh — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 02:09:48 -0500

Bar exam's seeming more real. I had my fingerprints taken today.

Things have changed since the last time I had fingerprints taken. That was, I believe, in 1995. I'd passed the Foreign Service Officer written exam and had to have fingerprints for the oral assessment. I had difficulty finding a cooperative police department. We got fingerprinted on cards with ink. I've still got 'em; I didn't make it past the oral assessment, so they gave me my packet of painstakingly completed materials back. Prior to that, I had them done when I started at Carnegie Mellon and enlisted in the Air Force for ROTC. As a group, we took a field trip to the campus police station to have our prints taken. The cop kept getting frustrated with me, because I "helped" too much rolling my fingers, smudging cards.

The California Bar requires Live Scan fingerprinting. They slap your fingers on a scanner and you can actually watch the print as your finger rolls on screen. It was funny. At one point, the guy said, "Oh. Big scar there," when rolling one finger, and, "That looks like a serious burn," on another. I apparently haven't been nice enough to my fingers over the years.

Oh well, next up is to send the confirmation for my DD 219 (for my honorable discharge form) to the National Archives. Then, I can fill out the rest of the Character and Fitness form, and that'll be one more big step.

Otherwise Occupied - cnf

Even the Application for Determination of Moral Character was easy...

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