524 ABA Journal Bar Exam articles.
Originally charged a decade ago with attempted murder, Shay Golden pleaded guilty to first-degree assault and was sentenced to three years in prison.
Now the 31-year-old second-year student at
One country, one bar exam? That is far from the situation in the United States right now, and that is not likely to be the reality at any point in…
Sep 15, 2010 9:38 PM CDT
Time Warner’s general counsel has signed a new contract that pays him $1.25 million a year, plus a possible bonus of $2.5 million.
The pay package puts Paul Cappaccio third…
Sep 8, 2010 12:20 PM CDT
A number of law students see their third year as something of a waste of time—and money.
But Roger Gordon, 43, is walking the walk. The third-year student at Georgetown…
Sep 1, 2010 7:51 PM CDT
Back in the day, tailgate parties were synonymous with college football games. But some law schools now host similar events for freshly minted legal eagles facing a grueling bar exam…
Jul 28, 2010 7:59 PM CDT
When Mike Ghaffary decided to take the California bar exam, he did what most other young lawyers do: He enrolled in a bar review course.
May 1, 2010 8:39 AM CDT
Missouri has become the first state to replace its bar exam with a uniform test that could help make lawyers more mobile.
Test-takers won’t see the new exam until February,…
Apr 29, 2010 1:20 PM CDT
Margie Alumbaugh doesn’t have a law license and she isn’t a student at a traditional law school, but she’s already getting experience as a deputy prosecutor.
In February Alumbaugh became…
Apr 5, 2010 4:17 PM CDT
After more than three years of litigation, an out-of-state law graduate has apparently tired of pursing a onetime federal class action over Wisconsin’s so-called diploma privilege, under which graduates of…
Mar 24, 2010 10:46 PM CDT
The most expensive iPhone app costs $999.99, but the high cost may not deter some would-be lawyers.
The app, BarMax CA, is a prep course for the…
Jan 21, 2010 1:42 PM CST
A blind graduate of UCLA law school plans to take the bar exam in February, and she hopes she will be able to use a computer program that reads the…
Jan 6, 2010 6:53 PM CST
In the decades before attending law school became a prerequisite to practicing law, it was relatively common for states to grant “diploma privilege” to those who did graduate—requiring their bar…
Jan 2, 2010 4:30 AM CST
Nine out of New York’s 15 law schools saw a decrease in bar passage rates for this July’s exam, contributing to a drop in the statewide pass rate to 88…
Dec 3, 2009 6:23 PM CST
Valarie Wallin, a graduate of an online law school, has passed the bar in California and Wisconsin. Now she wants the Minnesota Supreme Court to allow her to take the…
Dec 3, 2009 5:51 PM CST
The debate for a uniform bar exam heats up as more jurisdictions consider the adoption of a single exam and scoring system that would be accepted from state to state.
…Nov 23, 2009 7:49 PM CST
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