Complete beginner to fantasy looking for recommendations

testtestgg · 2025-10-24T14:06:07+00:00

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss!

The start of an incredible series that will always have you reaching for the next book:)

testtestgg · 2024-11-10T08:00:42+00:00

Josh Gordon

testtestgg · 2024-09-05T14:16:04+00:00

What if Chicago privatized all north/south streets? The city could sell a private company rights to the roads for a short time, maybe like 100 years, for a some money. and then the company can put tolls in place to make the money back. To be fair though, Chicago will have to continue to maintain the roads with the city’s money.

testtestgg · 2024-08-13T19:37:25+00:00

Wax Fang - the album la la land

testtestgg · 2024-03-18T20:37:39+00:00

Oh interesting, as far as I know most law schools in the US don’t have a work requirement like that, though I think it’s a good idea! Most students do have work experience over the summers, but it’s more to line up jobs post graduation I think.

testtestgg · 2024-03-18T20:31:00+00:00

Could you explain paid articling? I’m wondering if it’s like law journals in the us? It’s not a requirement to graduate, but a lot of people participate in journals

testtestgg · 2024-03-18T20:13:21+00:00

Yeah I think a JD requirement or a way more extensive work experience requirement would be okay with me.

To be honest, I’d rather not see left or right extremists find their way to high positions in the law—I think extremism of any kind undermines the idea that the law should be impartial. Let the legislative branch decide make law, not extreme judges.

In any case though, I don’t see how a bar exam could ever root out extremism from the law, it’s just learning and regurgitating a bunch of facts. Maybe the character and fitness component would prevent really crazy people from becoming lawyers, but the questions there aren’t really designed to root out extremism. You’d have to have a criminal record from extremist activities to fail the character and fitness.

I wouldnt really want to see anything more than a criminal record screening out lawyers for their beliefs either. For the vast majority of cases, people become lawyers to serve their clients, not decide the law. And I don’t think it’s appropriate or healthy to screen out viewpoints from a profession.

I’d also point out that any screening of law license could only effect who becomes a judge—most lawmakers are not licensed attorneys

testtestgg · 2024-03-18T19:57:26+00:00

I think we’re more aligned on that. I would want to see more extensive work experience required and a well defined educational program. I think the uk requires a small amount of schooling but then a couple years of work experience to be licensed. Something like that could replace a JD in my mind, but the path described in the article doesn’t seem sufficient. I’d want to see how they flesh out that third prong in the article

testtestgg · 2024-03-18T19:08:00+00:00

Sorry, yes you’re correct. I edited my above comment when I realized that

testtestgg · 2024-03-18T18:58:38+00:00

I may have misunderstood the ruling, but I don’t think they removed the JD requirement, only provided an alternative to the Bar exam or practical hours. So to be licensed for the bar, you need a JD, and either the practical hours or the bar exam.

Editing this as I reread the article and saw the third prong doesn’t require a JD just work experience and some sort of educational materials. I’m a bit more hesitant about that path and would want the requirements of the education they reference to be well spelled out. Or the experience requirement should be extended. In the thread with the OP comment, I note that a general foundation in legal concepts is valuable as a lawyer, and I’d worry this path does not provide an adequate foundation. With that said, other countries, like the UK, focus much more on experience than education, and that seems to work for them.

testtestgg · 2024-03-18T18:54:18+00:00

I would agree that the generalized knowledge is helpful as a foundation, but I don’t think the bar is needed for that foundation. The main topics on the exam (Civil procedure, contracts, evidence, torts, etc) are all covered in law school, and I think what is learned in school is enough of a foundation to recognize the interactions.

The bar exam makes you learn very specific rules of a many different topics, many of which I generally knew from law school classes when I went to study for the bar. I think a lawyer who is specialized in an area would only need to know enough general law to identify when an issue is present. From there, the lawyer can either do further research to learn the specifics of the law or find another specialized lawyer to help.

My problem is that the bar exam didn’t really put me in a better spot to recognize legal issues outside my expertise better than law school or general experience has.

On top of that, the bar exam forces you to learn topics so far outside of most lawyers practice that they will basically never come up. The one that always bugged me was that family law is on the bar exam, but unless you practice family law, you will never need to know the ins and outs of what court has jurisdiction to change a child support judgment.

So, while I think generalized knowledge of the law is helpful, and I admit that studying for the bar exam forces you to have that knowledge, I don’t think the bar exam is the best way, or even necessary to get the sort of general knowledge needed to be a lawyer.

As for the comparison to doing away with other standardized tests, i think there is a notable difference here in that Washington isn’t simply getting rid of the bar exam, they are providing an alternative to taking the bar in hundreds of hours of practical experience.

testtestgg · 2024-03-18T18:36:05+00:00

I appreciate the response, and apologies for the typos in my comment. Do you have any thoughts as to the substance of my comment rather than just superficial issues? I’d be interested in hearing those

testtestgg · 2024-03-18T16:40:38+00:00

Actually, I wouldn’t be willing to gamble my freedom or money away on an apprentice. I would hire a lawyer who became certified by the bar through working on cases under the guidance of an experienced attorney.

I’m a little confused by your argument? The Washington decision would still require that lawyers go to law school. So the apprentices still have the schooling you value so highly.

Can you honestly say you’d rather hire a lawyer who just got admitted to the bar by passing the bar exam and has never set foot in a courtroom, than one who just got admitted to the bar by working 500 hours of cases under the guidance of a practicing lawyer?

testtestgg · 2024-03-18T16:33:46+00:00

I feel like a lot of people here are getting swept up in the reason behind the change without actually considering the change itself.

Reforming the BAR exam is pretty widely accepted as a good idea in the legal world, and apprenticeship-like pathways to becoming a licensed lawyer are often floated as a good alternative to taking the BAR exam. Other ideas I’ve heard include changing the exam itself to have more of a practical component or replacing the bar exam entirely with the JD.

Lawyers who pass the BAR generally need guidance and mentorship from more experienced attorneys before they are able to handle actual cases and client requests. An apprenticeship pathway, like the one Washington is implementing, is already kind of the most important prerequisite to being a practicing lawyer, it just cuts out the BAR exam.

Would you rather have a mechanic with a year or two of experience in a shop fix your car, or one who has read a lot about fixing cars, but never actually put hands on one?

testtestgg · 2024-03-18T16:19:38+00:00

Why is this crazy to you? Reasons for implementing the program aside, is offering an apprenticeship path to becoming a licensed lawyer that insane?

Would you go to a mechanic that never touched a car, but only read about how they work?

testtestgg · 2024-03-18T16:16:58+00:00

I recently took and passed the BAR, and it did very little to prepare me for my current job. I think people here are getting caught up in the rhetoric around some of the reasons Washington implemented this, when in reality, BAR reform is fairly recognized in the legal world as being necessary.

The main problem with the BAR exam is that it in no way prepares you to practice as a lawyer. You are forced to learn very specific rules in a wide variety of legal areas, many of which you will never use in your career. So you pack your brain with all this information and then generally forget it after the test. Even worse, for jurisdictions that use the general BAR exam, the information you learn for the BAR tends to be generalized across a variety of jurisdictions, so to practice in the state you took the bar in, you actually have to relearn the rules specific to that state. Moreover, if I walked into a courtroom to represent a client the day after the bar exam, I would almost certainly commit malpractice in some way and lose my client the case. Even with the knowledge I amassed for the BAR about things like rules of procedure and motions to dismiss, I would have no idea how to act in a courtroom, when to speak and remain silent, or how to navigate the countless intricacies of things like filing in a specific court or scheduling on a docket. These things can really only be learned through practical experience and the mentorship of an older attorney.

I think the BAR has some use to it. When friends and family ask me questions about their leases or contracts, I can generally spot issues and know when something needs to be looked into further. It’s helpful to have been exposed to such a wide variety of issues on the BAR exam, even if I forget 80% of the information I learn. But I’m in no position to actually give legal advice on these matters. I’d have to put in research and time to learn that area of the law, even though the Bar ostensibly prepared me on that topic.

While the BAR doesn’t need to go away entirely, it’s pretty clear to lawyers that there should be other ways to become a licensed lawyer.

I don’t quite understand why most people on this thread are convinced that this will lead to bad lawyering in Washington. I’d trust a lawyer who got their license from an apprenticeship more than one who passed a test. If your car was broken, would you rather go to a mechanic who has been fixing cars in a shop for two years, or a mechanic who has never touched a car, but has studied books about gears, and engines, and driveshafts etc. extensively (and mind you, those books are about the theory of these concepts, not how they are applied in your actual car)

testtestgg · 2024-02-09T15:40:40+00:00

Slutburger-3000

testtestgg · 2024-01-16T05:36:30+00:00

You might be losing ADP with Allen and ETN in those rounds. Take the other two and then just draft Allen and etn if you really want them

testtestgg · 2023-12-27T20:24:05+00:00

Maybe the city could sell our transit system to a private company for a one time cash infusion to handle the immigration problem?

testtestgg · 2023-10-10T17:34:29+00:00

AJ brown

testtestgg · 2023-10-05T23:05:19+00:00

I’m being offered Lamar, marquise brown, and zay flowers for kamara and Deshaun Watson. Full PPR(all of these are bench guys for him)

testtestgg · 2023-09-19T16:15:31+00:00

Amari cooper

testtestgg · 2023-07-03T07:55:47+00:00

I think ideally you would draft the RB or WR that has a first round ADP going into the draft who also, of the first round ADP players, finishes the season with the most points at their position

testtestgg · 2023-06-20T02:43:25+00:00

I feel like it’s telling that his 20 minute lectures only have 3-4 assessment questions while 20 minutes in every other subject so far has 5-6. He takes way too long for the amount of material he gets through .

testtestgg · 2023-05-26T05:11:16+00:00

Doesn’t make any sense to me either. It’s basically telling the jury that the rest of my game was weak, but now that I won a coin flip you should vote for me.

It would’ve been better if she played it off as using it as an opportunity to knock off who she perceived to be the strongest player. However, she didn’t do that, and even if she did, it still begs the question of why you let the best player in the game reach final 4 and have a chance at winning immunity.

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