Utah Supreme Court releases proposed order to allow recent graduates to practice law without passing bar exam
DESERT NEWS — A proposed order from the Utah Supreme Court, however, could mean they get to practice law sooner than they would without the disruption of the COVID-19 outbreak — and without taking the bar exam at all.
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THE INDIANA LAWYER — …the Indiana Supreme Court has issued an order that will allow the law school Class of 2020 to represent clients and do legal work on a limited basis. The court’s Wednesday order enables law school graduates who have not yet sat for the bar exam to serve as graduate legal interns until the…
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THE INDIANA LAWYER — The slump in passing rates for the Indiana bar exam is continuing with February’s preliminary results being the lowest recorded in Indiana in recent years. Comparatively, the final overall pass rates for the 2019 and 2018 February bar exams were 50% and 51%, respectively.
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BLOOMBERG — The heads of Columbia, NYU and other New York law schools are proposing that members of this year’s class should be allowed to skip the bar exam because of the coronavirus outbreak. New York’s highest court on Tuesday delayed the July 2020 exam. A new date is to be set in September.
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ABA JOURNAL — The New York Court of Appeals announced Tuesday that the bar exam will take place shortly before or after the Labor Day holiday. Also on Tuesday, the Hawaii Supreme Court in an order announced that its July bar exam will be rescheduled for some time in the fall.
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THE BOSTON GLOBE — The Massachusetts bar exam for newly minted law school graduates will be postponed from July to the fall amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to the state Supreme Judicial Court and Board of Bar Examiners.
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NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION — Just one day after the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA) Task Force on the New York Bar Examination recommended that the postponed July bar exam be rescheduled for a date close to Labor Day, the Court of Appeals met and decided it agreed. In an announcement late Tuesday, the…
Read More about New York reschedules July bar exam to early SeptemberMichigan removes mental health questions from bar exam
LANSING STATE JOURNAL — The Michigan Supreme Court announced Wednesday it had directed the Board of Law Examiners to remove questions that ask for details about applicants’ mental health histories.
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INSIDER — A high proportion of law students say they do not seek mental health treatment out of fear that it will scupper their career prospects, sparking a debate about how best to support the millions of young people entering the profession every year.
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ABA JOURNAL — The bar passage rate for first-time test-takers has increased by nearly 5 percentage points, according to data released Monday by the ABA’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar. First-time test-takers who graduate from an ABA-accredited law school in 2019 have an aggregate pass rate of 79.64%, compared to 74.83% for 2018…
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