523 ABA Journal Bar Exam articles.
Responding to what it describes as “understandable concerns” about the unusual manner in which some who took the South Carolina bar exam in July 2007 belatedly learned that they had…
Nov 20, 2007 7:34 PM CST
The South Carolina Bar’s board of governors is asking the state supreme court to explain more fully why it changed the bar exam results for 20 test-takers, including the daughters…
Nov 16, 2007 6:33 PM CST
When answers to the New York bar exam written on laptop computers this past summer turned up missing, officials said they expected to be able to get the answers from…
Nov 15, 2007 3:45 PM CST
Updated: The South Carolina Supreme Court’s decision to change the bar exam results for 20 test-takers was a surprise to the man who oversees the state Board of Law Examiners.
…Nov 13, 2007 7:30 PM CST
A trial judge’s daughter is among 20 law grads who flunked and then passed the state bar exam, due to a grading change by the South Carolina Supreme Court.
The…
Nov 9, 2007 4:25 PM CST
A federal court battle over a bar exam question on gay marriage has ended with the plaintiff agreeing to dismiss the case.
A Massachusetts federal judge granted the plaintiff’s motion…
Oct 11, 2007 11:37 AM CDT
A UCLA law professor seeking more information about bar passage rates for minority law students is planning his next move after the State Bar of California turned down his request…
Sep 19, 2007 12:31 PM CDT
Would-be lawyers who had trouble uploading their essays for the New York bar exam may be facing a new problem: incomplete essay answers.
About 400 essays appear to be incomplete,…
Aug 31, 2007 2:01 PM CDT
A backup system preserved the essays of those who ran into software glitches when they tried to upload answers to the New York bar exam.
Douglas M. Winneg, president of…
Aug 3, 2007 12:00 PM CDT
Does a general counsel of a corporation have to be a licensed lawyer? To many, the answer to that question would seem to be a no-brainer: Yes.
But a small…
Aug 2, 2007 6:41 PM CDT
Days before Cassandra E. Hooks was to sit for the California bar exam, her 4-year-old son was hospitalized with a bacterial infection.
Aug 1, 2007 8:30 AM CDT
BAR/BRI is facing another lawsuit claiming law students paid too much for the bar review course.
The $48 million class-action suit claims the company’s advertising materials fraudulently induced New York…
Jul 30, 2007 12:34 PM CDT
In a rare sanction of a law firm that names no individual partner names, the New Jersey Supreme Court has reprimanded Newark-based Sills Cummis Epstein & Gross for allowing an…
Jul 27, 2007 12:03 AM CDT
It’s hard enough just studying for the bar exam. But six California law graduates decided to up the ante even further by doing so in the public eye. Responding to…
Jul 26, 2007 6:24 PM CDT
Bar examiners in New York suspect a software glitch caused test takers to experience problems this week saving and uploading their essays.
Diane Bosse, chairwoman of the Board of Law…
Jul 26, 2007 1:06 PM CDT
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