Good luck to bar takers!

Those of you not in the legal field may think this is just another week coming up, but you would be wrong. It is actually the week that aspiring lawyers (including a few blog readers) will pray their way to convention centers across the country, spend days trying to show bar examiners how much law they were able to cram in their brains, and then settle in for several excruciating months of wondering if their names will appear on the list of bar passers (which, by the way, appear online for the world to see). 

If you know someone who is taking a bar exam this week, send some positive vibes and encouragement their way. But make sure you are as unintrusive as possible and communicate in a way that won't disrupt their concentration - text messages, tweets, and Facebook messages are great, while phone calls and visits should be avoided at all costs (unless the bar taker initiates contact, of course). And if you need a last-minute gift for a bar examinee in your life, check out my previous post on gifts for the exam-taker.

Best of luck to everyone taking a bar this week! Trust your studying, trust yourself, and remember that it will be over soon!