Thanks everyone for your posts. To answer a few of the questions the bar exam takes 12 hours in Maryland it's two days of hell and 6 hours each day. The first day is all written essays, the second day is all multiple choice. The multiple choice sounds like it would be easy but the people who make the test seem to create situations that would never happen, and purposely try and trick you in to selecting what the right answer should based on what is the most "fair" answer but isn't because of some obscure law or fine point.

As far as I know every state in the US requires a person who wants to take the bar exam to graduate from an ABA approved Law School, except for the State of California. Years ago the Law School part was not required (I'm guessing around 1950's ish).

The Job offer is for the government itself with America's Favorite Agency.... The IRS (at least I know they'll be around for a while since I don't see taxes going away anytime soon, and the way taxes seem to be going I have a feeling the agency will be growing).