Comments on: FITSNews Exclusive - Bar Exam Flap Engulfs SC Legal Community

By: PO ed at the sc unsupreme court

PO ed at the sc unsupreme court — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 02:43:28 +0000

f the SC bar ass. and the SC Supreme Court. They are all a bunch of croakie searsucker fish belt wearin’ dime a dozen douchebags. Anyone who lives in SC knows that this is indeed a coverup of the truth and that one douchebag will always help and empower more douchebags or douchbagettes. Rise up and vote these cronies out of office and maybe the good ol’ boy system can get replaced with the good new boy system.

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By: Confused Layman

Confused Layman — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 02:51:13 +0000

As a non-lawyer from a non-lawyer family I think the purpose of the Bar exam should be to identify and pass applicants that are knowledgeable enough to practice law and fail those who do not and would pose a danger to future clients. Those responsible for administering the exam have a duty to the public welfare to administer an adequate test and a duty to the applicants to administer a fair test. Do those undertaking that responsibility have those goals in mind and are they capable of achieving those goals?
Whatever happened regarding the Will, Trust and Estate section of the exam – a “scrivener’s error” or corrupt political favoritism - those responsible for administering the test failed to competently perform their duty. Even if the “scrivener’s error” is the truth and the whole truth, the test administrators failed their own test of competency.
As a layman I’m left in doubt of the validity of the testing process. Either applicants who should have passed were initially failed or applicants who should have failed were “illegally” passed. I don’t understand the explanation offered enough to know if the “scrivener’s error” could have passed some who should have failed. Dismissing one bar examiner does not seem an adequate response to having had to throw out a section of the bar exam. One person should not able to make such a serious error that remains uncorrected by the testing procedures.

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Year Of The Monkey (Business) | FITSNews For Now — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 23:35:02 +0000

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By: Dee

Dee — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 13:05:13 +0000

I’m not Gay, I’m a professional pubic tap dancer.

By: Dee

Dee — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 13:00:22 +0000

I have just about had it all - I think the whole exam needs to be reduced to a multiple choice questions. This is simply ridiculous. Here I am about to take the Alabama state bar exam again which is a three day ordeal - graded by 14 different people (AL/MEE/MPT) portion and they have the discretion of using the points sheets or NOT! Twice I have flunked by four points. Makes me go Hmmm too.

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By: Annon

Annon — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:26:06 +0000

Here are the names of the “new” passers per the “consolidated list on the SC Courts Website:

1, Samantha Sarratt Adiar
2, Rachael Anne Akers
3, Evelyn Belicia Ayers
4, Elizabeth Anne Baker
5, Shaheena Ramona Bennett
6. Kendall Renee Burch
7, Sherod Hampton Eadon, III
8, Kristen B. Fehsenfeld
9, Matthew Clilne Halverstadt
10, Samia H. Hanafi
11, Cathrine Salley Harrison
12, Ittris J. Jenkins
13, Renee Sara Kart
14, Cooper Clayton Lynn
15, Rosalind Latrice Sellers
16, Stephen Fulton Shaw
17, Melissa Diane Spivey
18, David Edward Wells
19, Warren Westbrook Wills
20, Courtney Dione Wingate

By: Updated Timeline « Not Very Bright

Updated Timeline « Not Very Bright — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 00:25:41 +0000

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