Article

• Publication year: 2014
• Pages: 18
• Citation: Vol. 27 No. 1 Pg. 18

ArticleVol. 27 No. 1 Pg. 18Utah Bar JournalFebruary, 2014.

January, 2014

PROFESSIONALISM RE-EXAMINED OR THE UNEXAMINED LIFE MIGHT ACTUALLY BE BETTER

Learned Ham

Have you ever done something you couldn't explain? Like sleepwalking, wearing a yellow necktie, ordering ceviche on purpose, majoring in economics, or watching professional bowling on TV? I just took the Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam ("MPRE"). I don't remember taking it before. I passed the bar exam in Utah in 1984, and I probably took a lot of things back then that I don't remember now. Maybe the MPRE was one of them.

I took it now because for some reason I want a license to practice law in Connecticut. I live in Connecticut now. It's a pretty, great state. If you don't mind Lyme disease. I've been working here as in-house counsel. I have a certificate to prove it. My certificate is valid as long as I remain in good standing with the Utah State Bar, which - and this will come as a mild surprise to some -hasn't been a problem so far. I don't need a Connecticut license. I don't even want one. But I decided it would be a good thing to do to keep my options open. That's the same reason I went to law school, which probably should have made me stop and think. But if you stop and think about everything, nothing ever gets done. Stop and think about that. If we had stopped and thought about it, would Afghanistan be the vibrant pluralist, democratic society that it is today? My point exactly.

So I recently took the MPRE. And...