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Lawyer History
An lawyer is someone who is trained and legally allowed to practice in court to prosecute or defend a claim. As of 2012, there were approximately 1.2M attorneys in the U.S. but the profession does not have the attraction to fame and wealth that it did for the previous generation so numbers have started to decline. Lawyers have been around for some time. Beginning in 1763 with the first bar exam in the state of Delaware the profession has progressed and now some states have an exam that can take 3 days to administer. Don't get too worried, it is still a multiple choice exam for most, with only a few states requiring an essay portion. A graduate must be 'of good moral' to be eligible for exam and once completed, is typically admitted into the state bar association.Best Schools
Today, most lawyers value their degree on the prestige of the institution, which is by all accounts directly proportional to the tuition that poor students pay that are not in the golden network. By this measure, the best institutions are as follows (total cost):1. NYU: $261,548
2. Columbia: $261,212
3. Chicago: $261,190
4. UConn: $257,572
5. Harvard: $256,208
Depending how you count the cost, if you look at out of state cost the list looks like this per year:
1. University of California, Davis $54,622
2. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor $49,740
3. Seton Hall University $46,840
4. Georgetown University $46,865
5. University of Chicago $47,502
6. New York Law School $47,800
7. Fordham University $47,986
8. Yeshiva University (Cardozo) $48,370
9. Brooklyn Law School $48,416
10. Harvard University $48,786
11. New York University $48,950
12. Stanford University $49,179
13. Duke University $49,617
14. University of California, Berkeley $54,370
15. University of Southern California (Gould) $50,591
16. University of Pennsylvania $50,718
17. Northwestern University $51,920
18. Yale University $52,525
19. Columbia University $52,902
20. Cornell University $53,150
Best States
The Pass/Fail rate for Bar exam by state is as follows. One way of looking at this is that the highest pass rate has the most qualified people on average, or the lowest pass rate could be viewed as having the most successful exam. It is up to you to decide if someone from Oklahoma is a better lawyer than Mississippi. No matter how you slice it, 1 in 3 law students will fail the bar in California.Top 5
1. Oklahoma 86.9 percent
2. Iowa 86.57 percent
3. Missouri 86.30 percent
4. New Mexico 85.71 percent
5. New York 83.92 percent
Bottom 5
46. Maryland 66.70 percent
47. California 66.19 percent
48. North Carolina 65.22 percent
49. Arizona 63.99 percent
50. Mississippi 63.95 percent
Types of Cases
CriminalActions against the law, these are represented by the state against a person.
Civil
Are between people and businesses and generally fall into one of the following categories.
* Tort claims: Wrongful act (not breach of contract) like personal injury, battery, negligence, defamation, medical malpractice, and fraud.
* Breach of contract claims: typically from failure to comply to a contract either oral or written. typically incomplete work, late work, missing goods.
* Equitable claims: is asking the court to order someone to do or not do something. like a restraining order, transfer of land, destruction of property.
* Landlord/tenant issues: evictions, rentals, security deposits of damages.
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