Marsha Griggs

Sitting in the county title office and I overheard this actual conversation:
Stranger 1: Are you here to title a brand new car?
Stranger 2: Yes. I accidentally drove my car into a brick wall.
Stranger 2: Oh my gosh hun! You should buy pre-owned.

I suffer from "reply-all overwhelm syndrome." I will be seeking university accommodations.

Do tell.

Welp, I'm calling it a wrap for this submission cycle. I will withdraw, revise, and resubmit in Spring. I don't know how non-Constitutional scholars survive the fall cycle. Sigh.

We should all question the NextGen exam. www.linkedin.com/posts/antoni...

We’re a “self regulating profession,” and yet it seems like this system does everything in its power to protect against being held accountable by *checks notes* the people in this profession.

Very dark post. Wishing you a full and prompt recovery.

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Law grad goes into cardiac arrest during NY bar exam — and test goes on uninterrupted: reports “That’s a real person who could be dying right in front of us, and we’re still being expected to continue.”

Well, looks like it’s hit the regular news now.

Hey remember that thing about making the profession look good? New York Bar, this isn’t it.

This week: Bar takers in Hawaii were evacuated mid-exam due to weather. The NY Bar Exam was disrupted by a medical crisis. Will examinees whose concentration and performance were affected receive any remedy?
My new article answers this question and explains why. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Adding to my star footnote: All em-dashes are mine.

A night shot of multiple ICE agents masked as always outside a temporary private prison.

🚨One of the most terrifying elements of the Trump budget bill is NOT getting enough attention.

The Bill will make ICE the biggest policing and incarceration agency in the US.

Bigger than the FBI, with more jail space than the Federal Prison Bureau.

It’s a budget for a police state.

Last night, I attended the Mound City Bar Association Scholarship Dinner. This evening not only marked the end of my service as Treasurer for the Association, but it also brought me an unexpected honor: the President's Award for Board service.

Disgusting.

New York man pleads guilty to posing as lawyer, stealing over $290K from more than 100 clients A New York man who posed as a lawyer has admitted to stealing more than $290,000 from more than 100 clients who came to him for legal services.

New York man pleads guilty to posing as lawyer, stealing over $290K from more than 100 clients www.abajournal.com/news/article...

The NCBE's role is not to tell law professors what to teach, according to the NCBE. But adaptations will be required. I really hope a lot of doctrinal professors are paying attention.

Time to start re-thinking law school exam drafting.

This is something every new lawyer will do in practice. Unless they are in civil litigation, no? Good for the DAs and PDs. Not so good for a lot of Big Law folks.

10 jurisdictions will give this test in 2026. A fully computer based exam. Should be easy to do those mini PTs on your laptops, folks. Also, we know reading online poses difficulties for many students.

So the current UBE assesses all of this already, according to the NCBE. But competency 2 is new to NextGen.

Sample tasks for NextGen. See the content scope outline. I don't hate this.

Of course the MPRE won't be replaced. That's a good money maker for the NCBE.

My first EATS Conference. It was fabulous!

Some thoughts regarding the June 2026 release of the NextGen UBE Blueprint.

an older man wearing sunglasses is sitting at a desk in a classroom ALT: an older man wearing sunglasses is sitting at a desk in a classroom

I'm exactly 6 graded MPTs away from summer freedom.

I asked ChatGPT for feedback on my article draft. It said my piece "reads with intellectual heft and narrative immediacy."
Take that Reviewer 2!

#AASE2025 Annual Conference Day 1 Opening Plenary: Getting Unstuck and Becomming Unstoppable.

My writing struggles today make me think that maybe that last draft was *not* actually "two papers instead of one."

Vore dyyrrrrre in every county outside Dallas.

That's the Texas way.