532 ABA Journal Bar Exam articles.
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
There’s a happy ending to the story of disabled law grad who sued when California bar examiners refused to process her application to take the test because she didn’t fill…
Nov 23, 2009 12:49 PM CST
You begin to suspect that Ross E. Mitchell is a different sort of professional when he mentions his patented JetLag watch, which gradually adjusts to the correct time during flight…
Nov 2, 2009 3:00 AM CST
An expanded iPhone app from BARBRI allows bar review students who have upgraded to a mobile course to view all of the bar study lectures and access other study materials…
Sep 24, 2009 7:11 PM CDT
A little over seven years ago, Tony Jorgensen was getting ready to take the Pennsylvania bar exam after earning his law degree from Temple University in Philadelphia.
But on a…
Aug 31, 2009 6:28 PM CDT
Law students studying for the bar exam can download a free app with sample questions for their iPhones.
The “BARBRI Challenge” consists of a series of sample bar exam questions…
Aug 27, 2009 1:06 PM CDT
The atmosphere may be tense inside a Columbus, Ohio, auditorium filled with 1,300 law graduates taking the bar exam, but the outside parking lot looks a lot more like a…
Jul 31, 2009 2:51 PM CDT
Law grads taking the bar exam this week should stop worrying—but it wouldn’t hurt to appeal to a higher power, according to a blogger who has written five tips for…
Jul 28, 2009 3:02 PM CDT
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