Marsha Griggs
@professorgriggs.bsky.social
Law Professor. Advocate. Bar Reformist. Saint Louis University School of Law. Past President, Association of Academic Support Educators.
I am looking for writing accountability partners (in law) with feedback loops built in. Standard pomodoro timed session, but followed by a window of time to exchange works and offer feedback on the others' argument, draft revisions, etc. I'll call it my ADHD pom.
My Bar Exam Playlist now includes: 🎵 I should have seen this coming 🎤 Being a Bar Examiner Means Never Saying I'm Sorry 🎶 Don't Sleep, Testing Resumes at 6AM 🎼 The night the WiFi Went Out in Yakima 💿 Baby Come Back to Me in September
No, no, no. You may NOT use Whitney's most legendary song in vain.
Submission question for law profs: do you have an abbreviated CV that you use for Journal submissions? If yes, I'd love to see samples. TIA.
Professors Howarth and Merritt are asking the right questions and no court should move forward with the NextGen UBE until we have satisfactory answers. Lest we forget the blunders of 2020 and 2025, "trust us," and "we promise we'll be ready," are simply not enough. www.abajournal.com/web/article/...
NCBE offers scoring range on new bar exam, but some want more information
The ABA Journal is read by half of the nation's 1 million lawyers every month. It covers the trends, people and finances of the legal profession from Wall Street to Main Street to Pennsylvania Avenue.
abajournal.com
Teaching is an honor and a privilege, and a role that comes with a great deal of responsibility and people placing their trust in you. That he somehow thinks that stepping back from "public roles" but doesn't consider teaching as being one of those is absurd.
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.
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’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.
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.
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.”
nypost.com
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.
🚨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.
New York man pleads guilty to posing as lawyer, stealing over $290K from more than 100 clients www.abajournal.com/news/article...
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.
abajournal.com
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.
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.
Some thoughts regarding the June 2026 release of the NextGen UBE Blueprint.
I asked ChatGPT for feedback on my article draft. It said my piece "reads with intellectual heft and narrative immediacy." Take that Reviewer 2!
