My July 9 announcement of likely decreased blogging has expired, so to speak. The big exam was today. My parent left the nursing home Monday. Life is sorta kinda back to normal.
It’s amazing how much there is to master even when one is focusing a law practice — not trying to be a “general practitioner.” It’s very unlikely that I got 100% on this test. It included one question that hardly even seemed to belong there (a question about the application of FMLA, the Family and Medical Leave Act, to the desired leave of a 49-employee company’s sole manager to help his wife care for a foster child. What!? This is Elder Law?!) and asked for discussion of a term I have never encountered “in the wild.” The term is abbreviated IADL. I have encountered it only in preparatory materials for this exam. Never in 15 years of focused practice has a client asked or a professional proffered information about IADLs. But my exam review allowed me to say a few not-totally-irrelevant things about ADLs, IADLs, and Executive function. Then I dreamed up a few more that were logical because it was an essay question.
I’m not accustomed to feeling lost as frequently as I did on this exam. 90+% is my comfort zone. But when a test includes five primary areas of law and eight secondary areas, and when one’s concentration is not on a single area of practice but is a sort of general practice for a particular client type, it’s likely that one will not personally be knowledgeable in all areas. So the exam required only 70% as a passing grade and gives partial credit for knowing the right issue even if you don’t know the right answer. That mirrors real life and is why we have terabytes of data on Lexis-Nexis, at the ready (and a few books on the shelves); but you must know the issue to find the answer.
Anyhoo, I’m a bit out of the blogging habit. We’ll see how it goes from here. I never committed to blogging at particular intervals.
I’ve been thinking a lot about Islam, its enemies, and fear as a motivator (as well as a judgment-distorter). I may have a few pointed comments about that if I’m willing (within the limited range of my internet voice) to stir up a hornet’s nest.
Tipsy Teetotaler ن 