Gregory M Stein

AVOID THIS LAW SCHOOL! I graduated from the University of Tennessee College of Law at Knoxville. I graduated with perfect attendance and with a 2.70 / 4.00 grade point average. After graduating law school, I took the Tennessee Bar Examination seven times. I never passed the bar exam, and I never became an attorney. Instead, I became the laughing stock of my family and friends and synagogue. I blame my law professors for my inability to pass the bar exam. My law professors were incompetent teachers. They may have been distinguished lawyers and authors, but they were terrible teachers. I relied on my law professors to teach me to become an attorney, and they failed me. They did not prepare me to pass the Tennessee Bar Examination. They instead taught me material that had little or no relevance to the bar exam. My law professors had no talent, no passion, no personality, and worst of all, no accountability. They issue worthless law degrees that the bar examiners do not respect. A law degree is worthless without an accompanying law license. In fact, it's worse than worthless, it's a curse. It haunts you for the rest of your life. Everyone considers you a failure. There is no escaping the stigma. The law professors at U.T. are State of Tennessee government employees, that is, civil servants. They get paid the same whether their students pass the bar exam or fail the bar exam. The law professors' primary goal is to retire and collect their lucrative Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System benefits. Their students' success is secondary. The law professors suffer no consequences if their students fail the bar exam. They are government employees. They can't be fired. The law professors are never held accountable for their incompetency. Only the students suffer for their professors' incompetency. It's ironic that the law professors teach the fundamental legal principles of accountability and liability and responsibility, yet they practice none of them. Blatant hypocrites. I would give my soul to the Devil if I could travel back in time and attend a different law school, even an unaccredited law school. Don't make the same mistake I made. Avoid this law school. Choose any law school but this one. Sincerely, Bradley Alan Kaufman, Alumnus, The University of Tennessee College of Law at Knoxville, Class of 1992.