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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]my niece has failed the bar 3 x... 2x in new york and 1x in massachusetts.  she has been unemployed since law school graduation in 2013.  any advice on what to make of this/what she should do?  should she still even try to practice law?  she went to a bad law school and has huge debt.[/quote]

NY, like CA, is typically one of the harder bar exams because so many people want to practice there, so I wouldn't take failing NY twice as that much of a sign. However, she went to a "bad law school" which might mean that she didn't have the grades to get into a good one. You also don't mention how she did at law school.

The real question is why she did it. Does she really want to be a lawyer? At this point she isn't going to get a BigLaw job, so she needs to be looking at alternatives, anyway.

There are lots of fields out there where the logical thought process taught in law school is useful, and a knowledge of the law would be helpful. She should consider something like that rather than pushing the law career. 
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Any suggestions re those fields? Thanks![/quote]

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