DailyCaller—A graduate of Harvard Law School is suing New York’s bar examination board, claiming a promising legal career was derailed because she wasn’t given enough special treatment on the bar exam.
Tamara Wyche claims that ever since sustaining a head injury in an ATV accident in 2009, she has suffered from a host of cognitive problems that seem as though they would make it very difficult to be an effective lawyer. Among her alleged disabilities are a panic disorder, a reading disorder, memory problems, difficulty concentrating for extended periods, and a cognitive impairment that makes her struggle with complex abstract problems. Because of her various impairments, along with a major spell of depression, Wyche took five years to complete law school.
Despite her troubles with reading, thinking, and remembering, Wyche says she would have had an excellent legal career if she’d simply received proper accommodations from the New York State Board of Bar Examiners the first two times she sat for the New York bar exam. Wyche said she should have received 50 percent more time on the exam, her own private testing room, and special untimed breaks during the exam itself in order to compensate for her disabilities. Wyche said she received all of these accommodations during her time at Harvard, as well as a special exemption from being cold-called in class (a major component of Harvard’s legal education). MORE
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After getting fired from a law firm, she could then run for Senator of some state…then she could become Secretary of State of the United States of America and then run for President on the United States….AH, that’s all been done before…
I’m not an attorney but I play one on the internet and I have wanted to sue a number of Law Schools for not recognizing and endorsing my credentials!
glad she failed, wouldn’t want her as my lawyer. How the heck would she perform in an actual court room?
Sorry, your honor, I need a special recess for me to deal with my disability.
I am going to sue the lottery commission for denying me the opportunity to be a multi millionaire.
She could have been a fookin genius if she only weren’t damn stoopid!
When she passes the bar – because you know her cause will be taken up until she succeeds – then what will she do when no law firm or even government agency will hire her? Although perhaps she can be a ‘quota hire.’
Don’t you just love watching vampires eat each other?
Her symptoms sound suspiciously like the effects of pot.
Maybe if she put down the bong her life would improve.
So which NY Law firm will take her case to sue the NY State Bar? Does this sound like a wise career move for any NY Law firm?
Did some googling to find out if perhaps this one time the usual assumption, which I confess to having about all stories such as this one, is wrong. Lo, apparently it is not. I denounce myself.
If she can name the 3 drinks atop this bar, I’ll let her pass.
Why am I not surprised. Additionally, why isn’t she suing Harvard? They let her unqualified affirmative action as$ in to the school and lied to her about her legal career prospects.
Another affirmative action bag-o-shite. Go apply for what you are qualified for
; a BLM agitator.
I don’t mean to appear heartless, but I wonder if she was properly liscensed and wearing a helmet at the time of her atv accident.
I thought all attorneys had to being morally deficient and cognitively disconnected.
She passed the bar exam on her third time, she’ll be a shining affirmative action star in some low life law firm.
The Triggly Puff of the affirmative action set.
The really scary thing is, that she will probably WIN her lawsuit and go on to work in the Civil Rights division of the DOJ.
I knew someone in college who claimed to have a “learning disability” and got extra time for exams, term papers, etc. She would wait until the last minute to begin projects(as college students are wont to do) but then would get extra time while we non-“learning disabled” pulled all nighters to get shit done.
Truth be told, she was just a dumb bitch. Once, I was shopping with her and she had to ask the clerk how to spell the name of the store so that she could write the name on the check (you know, when writing checks was still a thing).
I knew then that she was just plain stupid. The store’s name was everywhere: on signs, bags, etc. A clever illiterate person would have just copied it off the bags rather than admit to the clerk that she couldn’t spell it.
Last I heard, it took her about 10 years to get her degree and she became a nurse of all things. I shudder at the thought of an illiterate person dispensing medication.
The accommodations Harvard made for this feces flinging bonobo were ridiculous in the first place. Never should have happened. A law degree granted under such circumstances isn’t worth the paper it is printed on.
Considering the public state of opinion towards most lawyers these days, does she REALLY want to become one?
Why can’t I sue?
Just cuz I never went to law skool or tried to fail the bar shouldn’t be an impediment – should it?
izlamo delenda est …
Love it. The Americans With Disabilities Act coming limping back to bite the lawyers who wrote it on the ass.
Sounds like the same lame admission group that allowed Mooschelle in let this one in.
Is she kidding me? She couldn’t even make it as a petitions clerk in New York City Family Court!
I don’t think she’ll win this one. A Bar exam is to ensure that clients that hire a lawyer is reasonably assured of having competent representation. Harvard failed her in making all the exceptions which she thought should carry on to the bar and most likely in practice. It’s unfortunate she had the injury but if they are real and as debilitating as she seems to say it’s effectively ruled out a career in law.