531 ABA Journal Bar Exam articles.
A federal court has revived a class action lawsuit over a unique Wisconsin attorney admission rule that admits newly minted graduates of state law schools to practice without requiring them…
Jul 13, 2009 8:56 PM CDT
Robert Bowman managed to pass the New York bar exam after the fourth try, but there is one more obstacle keeping him from getting a license to practice law: about…
Jul 2, 2009 1:00 PM CDT
Stress, says Paulina Bandy, figures prominently in bar exam failures.
She should know. Bandy passed the California bar exam in 2007—on her 14th try.
Jul 2, 2009 3:00 AM CDT
Dissolved firm won’t forgive bar exam loans
Jul 2, 2009 1:10 AM CDT
Amidst all the fingerpointing over the dismal state of the economy, excessive executive bonuses and the billable hour, the obvious hasn’t yet been stated, a well-known Yale law grad writes.
…Apr 9, 2009 9:14 PM CDT
Talk about psyching up for a test. When Whittier Law School grads sit for the bar exam, most of them don T-shirts that read: “Do it once. Do it right. Never…
Apr 2, 2009 2:10 AM CDT
Seeking to pursue a controversial study about the effectiveness of law school affirmative action programs, researchers have sued the State Bar of California for access to 30 years of examination…
Sep 8, 2008 5:10 PM CDT
The ABA’s policy-making House of Delegates this afternoon concurred in Resolution 112B (PDF) of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar that law schools may now…
Aug 11, 2008 8:03 PM CDT
A company that provides bar review courses for the multistate exam will offer state-specific bar review courses in three states.
Kaplan PMBR announced it will offer “full-service bar review” courses…
Aug 6, 2008 6:01 PM CDT
This question wasn’t on the California bar exam. But it was on the mind of many Los Angeles area test-takers yesterday, after a magnitude 5.4 earthquake centered about 30 miles…
Jul 30, 2008 6:31 PM CDT
Last summer’s New York bar exam debacle, in which some test-takers who used laptop computers lost their answers because of a software problem, appears to have had a significant impact…
Jul 29, 2008 11:02 PM CDT
Not law graduates for nothing, a small group of juris doctor degree holders have successfully sought federal class action status over Wisconsin’s policy of allowing only graduates of in-state law…
Jun 18, 2008 6:22 PM CDT
The chairman of McCarter & English is apparently a stickler for good grammar.
Chairman Drew Berry tells the Wall Street Journal Law Blog that every first-year lawyer…
May 30, 2008 4:30 PM CDT
Updated: A lawyer who attended the University of Chicago Law School has been accused in an ethics complaint of lying about his grades when he applied for a summer position…
May 20, 2008 8:30 PM CDT
Most of the big law firms help their lawyers pick up the costs of bar exam fees and bar review courses, according to an informal survey of readers by the…
Apr 28, 2008 5:46 PM CDT
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