549 ABA Journal Bar Exam articles.
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
Rattled by a pass rate on the California bar exam among its graduates in July 2007 that dipped to 82 percent, one of the state’s most prestigious law schools is…
Apr 25, 2008 4:44 PM CDT
A law grad who filed a lawsuit because he flunked the Massachusetts bar exam is apologizing to gays for being “an instrument of bigotry and prejudice.”
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Those taking the New York bar exam on their laptops this February will be required to sign a new, detailed waiver protecting the state Board of Law Examiners from liability…
Jan 3, 2008 12:27 PM CST
A “fail” may not be the final answer for some individuals who took the New York bar exam in July.
If they were among those who failed the exam because…
Dec 14, 2007 8:45 PM CST
A New York federal judge has ruled that advertising claims by BAR/BRI were mere puffery that cannot be the basis for a lawsuit.
The suit had claimed BAR/BRI engaged in…
Dec 13, 2007 3:08 PM CST
The Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law has nudged out higher-ranked Cornell for third place in a ranking of New York bar exam pass rates.
The top law school was…
Dec 3, 2007 3:06 PM CST
Bar exam snafus aside, there’s some good news for students at CUNY School of Law.
The Flushing school has posted the program’s highest-ever first-try pass rate on the state bar:…
Nov 27, 2007 6:05 PM CST
The quandary over how to handle a scoring error on the South Carolina bar exam is similar to a problem that surfaced with the Multistate Bar Exam in 2003. But…
Nov 26, 2007 7:35 PM CST
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
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