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531 ABA Journal Bar Exam articles.
Katten Muchin partly restores pay
Katten Muchin Rosenman has trimmed pay cuts announced in April. The firm had cut pay by up to 20% for lawyers and business professionals…
Aug 6, 2020 4:56 PM CDT
A resolution urging state courts of last resort to defer in-person bar exams during the COVID-19 pandemic and develop alternate plans to license candidates was adopted Tuesday by the ABA.
Aug 4, 2020 3:45 PM CDT
A resolution urging state courts of last resort to cancel in-person bar exams during the COVID-19 pandemic, and develop alternate plans to license candidates, will be considered by the ABA House of Delegates assembly.
Aug 3, 2020 10:25 AM CDT
A technical issue with the July Law School Admission Test, which was administered remotely, has led to a “small number” of candidates’ test answers being lost.
Jul 30, 2020 3:12 PM CDT
Following “repeated and unforeseen technical complications,” the Indiana Supreme Court released an
order Wednesday stating that its online bar exam has been rescheduled for Aug. 4, and it will now be an open-book test with questions and answers exchanged by email.
Jul 29, 2020 2:37 PM CDT
A testing delay with Michigan’s online bar exam was caused by the outside provider experiencing a distributed denial of service attack, the state supreme court's communications director announced Tuesday evening.
Jul 29, 2020 9:39 AM CDT
Some test-takers of the online Michigan bar exam had a brief password glitch on Tuesday, the state supreme court announced in a late morning
tweet.
Jul 28, 2020 2:05 PM CDT
This past spring, when few people realized that most July bar exams would ultimately be canceled, Molly Coleman decided to forgo the test, for the time being, despite her lawyer father’s objections.
Jul 27, 2020 2:21 PM CDT
Nevada and Indiana have pushed back the dates for their online bar exams after users taking practice tests encountered technology problems.
Jul 27, 2020 1:56 PM CDT
Most judges say systemic racism exists in criminal justice system
Sixty-five percent of 634 judges responding to a survey said they think systemic racism exists in the criminal justice system.…
Jul 23, 2020 4:40 PM CDT
There are many things the National Conference of Bar Examiners thinks test-takers should not bring to a bar exam in the interest of test security—but tampons and sanitary napkins are not on the list, says Judith Gundersen, the NCBE’s president and CEO.
Jul 23, 2020 12:47 PM CDT
In light of public health concerns, Illinois and New York have joined the growing list of states that canceled in-person bar exams, with plans for an October remote test offered by the National Conference of Bar Examiners.
Jul 23, 2020 12:02 PM CDT
On Monday, Georgia canceled its in-person September bar exam because of public health concerns stemming from the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Jul 21, 2020 10:15 AM CDT
California will have an online multiple-choice question bar exam in October, the state supreme court announced Thursday.
Jul 17, 2020 11:00 AM CDT
New York’s September bar exam has been canceled, the state court of appeals announced on its website Thursday.
“Unfortunately, the global pandemic presents a persisting threat in a growing number…
Jul 16, 2020 6:00 PM CDT
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