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Ask A Lawyer – Breakfast Club and Black Panthers


hi everybody it’s John Hastings I’m
wearing a different shirt Jessica
Solomon still rocking the lawyer browser
know what that means it’s time to ask a
lawyer let’s do it let’s do it ask
questions of a low we teased we teased
on our last show that we were going to
find out about the bar exam what exactly
is the bar exam and why is it called the
bar exam go well each province has its
own bar exam in the US every state has
its own bar exam good times i am from
Quebec but i did my bar exam in ontario
because i chickened out and didn’t want
to do it in french and it’s a little
easier in ontario it’s the bargain and
controls how many lawyers sort of
depending on how hard they make it
that’s how they sort of control the
number of lawyers that become lawyers if
you get one year could be like draw a
picture of a house and tell us how to
sue someone for the faulty bricklaying
work another one could be like
referencing scoops vs johnson regarding
the butterfly trials of the 1920s how
would you react to the court’s decision
to make it legal on Wednesdays to not
eat oranges in a bathtub like either the
saying that the questions can be that
much skewed on a bar exam I don’t know
that’s what I’ve understood that some
years are a little bit more difficult
than others and I think the explanation
not to not to that extent but New York
for example notoriously has a very
difficult bar exam cuz name is a lawyer
in New York visited yes and also I think
because it’s an open bar exam so I don’t
even think you have to go to law which
means open bar means that you must I was
like my kind of exam I guess get me
again give me some jurisdiction Scotch
rocks no I see none on me it’s an open
bar is in heaven by which i think which
means basically that you don’t have to
go to law school you can just write the
bar exam i could be wrong about what
that i really hope you’re wrong about
that because I they have to make it
really hard imagine the worst people in
like just one guy who’s just an idiot
savant and figures out how to do it and
like he’s a lawyer shingle yeah he’s
just like I guess what I know enough
about tort reforms that I have a I have
a I have passed the bar in New York
things you go to legal a law school know
how much a community college in rent bag
New Jersey now I’m going to go back to
my parents basement and start being an
ambulance chaser can I sue my parents
for having me can I sue my parents for
having me Jessica Solomon you’re a
lawyer answer the question no you can’t
do that but I like the question how do I
get a prenup without my fiance knowing
about it ultimately she has to know
about it but do you think there should
be like a built-in thing now in the
marriage contract that’s sort of on the
back like you’re like do you take this
person yes I do and in the event of a
divorce will you leave him with nothing
some stuff just the couch does he get to
keep the dog do you think that that
would be a good idea the more normalized
it is the easier it makes it obviously
for the person that wants the prenup
have you ever been held in contempt of
court I haven’t but at the tribe you
know where I did work the woman who
worked as the spokeswoman for the chief
prosecutor for a couple of years was
called before the court in contempt
because she published a book and in the
book she included some information from
confidential decisions of the appeals
chamber and so she got hauled before the
war crimes tribunal on contempt charges
and I think it’s going on appeal right
now it’s a trial and they basically find
her like seven that was in Euros though
we are to be like a former employee of a
war crimes tribunal and you know in her
case I think it was probably deserved
but I don’t think there was an appeals
process because I remember reading about
one of the heads of the Black Panthers
is still in jail for contempt of court
because they brought him in front of the
the court and like they were like are
you like do you plead guilty or not
guilty and he was like you judge and
he’s like three days contempt of court
and they brought him back after three
days and he said it again and they’re
like one week contempt of court and did
that like five times and like 10 years
contempt of court BAM it’s like The
Breakfast Club
Dixon one another detention he is the
Judd Nelson yeah exactly abba legal
system
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