Sean Silverman: Silverman Bar Exam & LSAT Tutoring

I tutor both the bar exam and the LSAT. Reach out for info!

Bar Exam Tutoring ⚖️:
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LSAT Tutoring 🧠:
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[Sean Silverman: Silverman Bar Exam & LSAT Tutoring @BarExamTutor]

I've gotten some nice testimonials over the years, but this one is especially nice. Beth has such a sharp legal mind; it was interesting to work with her.

[Sean Silverman: Silverman Bar Exam & LSAT Tutoring @BarExamTutor]

@IridiumShift Grate that on some spaghetti 🍝

[Sean Silverman: Silverman Bar Exam & LSAT Tutoring @BarExamTutor]

I’ll train AI on future interests, the battle of the forms, trespass to chattels, and other such bar exam things.

And then the AI will teleport itself back to whatever dimension it existed in before manifesting in our reality.

[Raad @R44D]

i'm hiring ~1,000 lawyers in the next 90 days to help train frontier AI models.

$100–120/hr. 20–40 hrs/week. remote.

like reviewing a first year's memo, except the first-year is an agent.

interested? reply with your practice area and i'll dm you

[Sean Silverman: Silverman Bar Exam & LSAT Tutoring @BarExamTutor]

@CBSNews @Dan_Farah

[Sean Silverman: Silverman Bar Exam & LSAT Tutoring @BarExamTutor]

@CBSNews @Dan_Farah

[Sean Silverman: Silverman Bar Exam & LSAT Tutoring @BarExamTutor]

@overclassifiedx They'll need to put on some clothes. We live in a society!

[Sean Silverman: Silverman Bar Exam & LSAT Tutoring @BarExamTutor]

@Lawmom I remember I took it in Albany and it was kind of quaint, ha. It gets very busy in Manhattan.

[Sean Silverman: Silverman Bar Exam & LSAT Tutoring @BarExamTutor]

Of the 44 states that have publicly released bar exam results, only 8 of them (~18%) scored higher in 2026 than in 2025. I don't have data on this, but that seems to me to be the lowest in memory when comparing to the previous year.

More is @ https://t.co/1bQWKs3v86

#barexam

[Sean Silverman: Silverman Bar Exam & LSAT Tutoring @BarExamTutor]

Though I will say, she *didn’t hold back on her critiques of originalism, with an originalist interviewer who clerked for Alito. 👀

[Sean Silverman: Silverman Bar Exam & LSAT Tutoring @BarExamTutor]

There was some talk on here about this Kagan interview at Catholic University. Watching it, it doesn't seem as biting as some were saying.

The full interview is @ https://t.co/3f2VgE20G7

[Sean Silverman: Silverman Bar Exam & LSAT Tutoring @BarExamTutor]

Of those 8, 3 administered the NextGen exam for the first time this July.

[Sean Silverman: Silverman Bar Exam & LSAT Tutoring @BarExamTutor]

There was some talk on here about this Kagan interview at Catholic University. Watching it, it doesn't seem as biting as some were saying.

The full interview is @ https://t.co/3f2VgE20G7

[Sean Silverman: Silverman Bar Exam & LSAT Tutoring @BarExamTutor]

@grok @DoveLocke7kj3 @AswathDamodaran what would you predict its market value to be in that same year?

[Sean Silverman: Silverman Bar Exam & LSAT Tutoring @BarExamTutor]

@SouthernOrbs @elonmusk The aliens in the orbs are nude!!

[Sean Silverman: Silverman Bar Exam & LSAT Tutoring @BarExamTutor]

@DietCoke_Esq lol, perfect response.

[L @Lillipad102]

I passed the NYS Bar with enough to go to other Jx, if I wanted. I'm thankful to God for walking me through this looooong path. #startedat40 #almost50 #barexam

At some point, I'll share my story. All the trials, the prior failure. At the moment, I'm basking in being done. DONE.

[Sean Silverman: Silverman Bar Exam & LSAT Tutoring @BarExamTutor]

@UTDealAttorney That was more my characterization about how some might perceive this practice from law firms. What I’ve gathered is that some firms are more “shady” than others when doing this. Not a shocker.

[Sean Silverman: Silverman Bar Exam & LSAT Tutoring @BarExamTutor]

My one question, and it's that, a question, not a dispute to what Dallin is saying here as I assume he knows more about this than I do. But my question is whether clients don't take the time to distinguish between these different levels of parternship. The crux of the argument is that the title adds credibility, but that's only true if clients aren't in on the game.

To use an analogy, which is far more extreme than the one we have here, Starbucks, at some point in its history, decided to call baristas "partners."

"You're now a partner, go make coffee for $18/hour." And, of course, nobody is really going to think of these employees as true partners of the company.

As I said, quite an extreme analogy. The original post says that non-equity partners can make a million dollars per year. They aren't baristas barely making minimum wage.

One thing I'd guess, though: if clients actually did distinguish these different levels of partnerships as I've questioned here, then it's probably far less likely that this would be the common practice that it is.

A bait and switch is only successful if the bait is attractive.

[Dallin Drescher @UTDealAttorney]

It’s interesting to me how much hate the non-equity partner structure gets. Commonly touted as a bait-and-switch by firms. But I think it’s pretty dang fair and lawyers generally prefer it to the alternative.

If you’ve got a big enough book, you can leverage equity partnership. If not at your current firm then at another. But if you don’t, and NEP isn’t offered by your firm, you’re stuck being a 10th-year associate or special counsel or whatever title they want to come up with that is very clearly not a Partner.

Guess what? It’s harder to win clients, specially big ones, when you don’t have the partner title. So many lawyers prefer the NEP track just for the implicit credibility that comes with being called a Partner.

Sure, it’s not true partnership. But you weren’t getting that anyways. In many ways it offers a more natural stepping stone.

FWIW, my firm does not offer non-equity partnership, and it is frequently requested to be considered as an option by lawyers who don’t have a large enough book for equity partnership. I can see the arguments for both sides, but I don’t think NEP is inherently unfair or misleading.

[Sean Silverman: Silverman Bar Exam & LSAT Tutoring @BarExamTutor]

@fan_cornell Though, to your point, New York has *many test takers.

[Sean Silverman: Silverman Bar Exam & LSAT Tutoring @BarExamTutor]

*Bar Exam Results*

New York (barely saving itself from turtle status 🐢)

July '26 Pass Percentage: 67%
July '25 Pass Percentage: 70%
# of test takers: 9,936

#barexam

[Sean Silverman: Silverman Bar Exam & LSAT Tutoring @BarExamTutor]

@fan_cornell I'd agree (I got mine in November, I think) but one difference: it's now the UBE, and back then it was the New York Bar Exam Beast. It's one of the last states to send out grades for the UBE, the same exam taken in many other states!

[Sean Silverman: Silverman Bar Exam & LSAT Tutoring @BarExamTutor]

@1dgrn We'd first have to determine how common the practice of your firm is at other firms. I've heard that many other firms limit the voting rights and such.

Partner only by name. Your firm might be far more above-board than others.