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Education

Nov. 23, 2005

Striving to Climb Your Own Personal Mount Everest

THE NEW LAWYER - COMING FULL CIRCLE - By Paul Pfau - The north face of storied Mount Everest as seen from the base camp of the 1995 American Mount Everest Expedition, which commemorated the members of the 1924 British expedition. As one of the great wild places, Everest is at once beautiful and terrible, a mountain that rarely spares even an innocent error in judgment.

By Paul Pfau         
        Passing the State Bar Exam is not unlike climbing Mount Everest. Both involve the pursuit of an extraordinary standard of excellence that will produce the skills necessary for success.
        For either of these goals, working to bring closure - to come "full circle" - is often at...

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