ProfessorTommy.Tips

I can’t run a blog called ProfessorTommy.tips with the tagline, “Serious About Success, Fun About the Process," and not talk about one of the most visible bar examinees on the planet. So, yes, I'm going there: Kim Kardashian did not pass the July 2025 California bar exam . And I'm going to treat that not as supermarket tabloid fodder, but as a case study. In her Instagram post (as quoted in the People ), she writes: “Six years into this law journey and I’m still all in until

College basketball tips off today, and that includes the University of Dayton's men's team hosting Canisius University at 7 p.m. in the Epicenter of College Basketball, UD Arena . Source: https://daytonflyers.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster The start of college basketball season also means the annual conversation about " one-and-done " stars is back. Think Carmelo Anthony, Anthony Davis, Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, Kevin Love, and Zion Williamson—players who spent a single

I went to my first Indiana Pacers game of the season last night. After five straight losses to open the season, the Pacers, who came up just short of winning the NBA Finals last season, finally got a win —and not a soft one. It came against the 4-and-2 Golden State Warriors in a game where the Pacers were a heavy 12-point underdog. All signs before tipoff pointed to a sixth straight loss: the injuries, the record, the matchup, the momentum, the odds. And then, for one night,

The National Conference of Bar Examiners' news release yesterday frames the Jan. 8-10, 2026 “Beta Test” of the upcoming NextGen Uniform Bar Exam as the ultimate readiness test—a capstone proving that the July 2026 exam is good to go. For clarity, a beta test, according to Merriam-Webster , is “a field test of the beta version of a product (such as software) especially by testers outside the company developing it that is conducted prior to commercial release.” Software daevel

If you’ve heard Generation Alpha chanting “six–seven,” which Dictionary.com recently named its 2025 Word of the Year , then congratulations: You’re now holding the perfect icebreaker for explaining bar‑exam scoring to anyone. On the written portion of the Uniform Bar Exam (the six Multistate Essay Exam essays and the two Multistate Performance Test questions), jurisdictions don’t all use the same raw scale. Although a majority of UBE jurisdictions grade your answers on six