A Lawyer Walks Into a Bar

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

A Lawyer Walks Into a Bar...

Director: Eric Chaikin
Alarmed by the grim spectre of an ever- increasing volume of lawyers in this state, there are some who might wish that prospective practitioners would engage themselves in Crossing the Bar (after Tennyson) instead of passing it.  Whatever your sentiments on this subject, A LAWYER WALKS INTO A BAR... is both an arch and sympathetic, as well as a very funny, examination of the trials and fortunes of four recent, and one not-so-recent, law school graduates as they seek to pass the California State Bar Exam, the most difficult in the United States.  These particular tales are told against the general setting of our current society, a nation of laws with a culture ever more litigious, which has been known, on rare occasions, to view members of the profession as mendacious and meretricious scum. (2007, 92 min.)
Showing: May 17, 8pm, Abalone Room