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> some of these students may need the accommodation specifically because of the pressure of the final exam.

Success as a lawyer often requires the ability to handle a certain amount of pressure. Timed exams are one way of screening for that ability. But it's by no means a sure-fire predictor of success: Legendary trial lawyer Joe Jamail [0] flunked his first-year Torts class at UT Austin [1], yet went on to become a billionnaire.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Jamail

[1] https://abovethelaw.com/2015/12/r-i-p-to-a-billionaire-lawye...

>>dctoed+(OP)
One can only hope these accommodations are not being granted to medical students.

>>dctoed+(OP)
You are praising billionaires while complaining about people gaming the system?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

>>gverri+Wn
It wasn't praise — just an observation about how grades and class standing aren't always a good predictor of success.

(I never met Joe Jamail, but by reputation there was a lot about him that I didn't especially admire.)

>>dctoed+qo
The problem is your identifying success with becoming a billionaire. To me, in the contrary, it's the telltale of a profoundly broken society.

>>gverri+tr
I don't disagree that the existence of billionnaires is problematic (especially given the Supreme Court's abominable decision in Citizens United).

But it's beyond rational dispute that Joe Jamail was one of the most successful trial lawyers of our era.