531 ABA Journal Bar Exam articles.
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
After three years of hard work, the nation’s newly graduated law students aren’t done with their studies yet. The vast majority are still buried in the books as they put…
Jul 9, 2007 8:27 PM CDT
A would-be lawyer who failed the bar exam has filed suit contending a question about gay marriage violated his First Amendment rights.
Stephen Dunne says the Massachusetts bar question required…
Jul 2, 2007 2:07 PM CDT
Lawyers have subpoenaed Google and EarthLink in an effort to track down the person who posted 41 questions from the Multistate Bar Examination last year, according to the Apr 20, 2007 12:53 PM CDT
A graduate of a non-ABA-accredited Internet correspondence law school in California has lost a court battle to force Connecticut to allow him to take the state bar exam. Derby, Conn.,…
Apr 11, 2007 9:10 PM CDT
General counsels at eight Fortune 250 companies don’t have the special law license required by their states for in-house lawyers who haven’t passed the local bar exam, according to an investigation by Corporate Counsel magazine.
Apr 5, 2007 1:15 PM CDT
Status may end as last state to admit its law school grads without taking bar exam
Apr 1, 2007 12:50 PM CDT
Education Department puts ABA accreditation role on ‘a short leash’
Feb 13, 2007 1:08 AM CST
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