Bar Exam Taker Removed From Room Due to Suspected COVID-19
The live, in-person bar exam unsurprisingly had some unfortunate consequences for test takers. One such incident occurred when Alaina Arroyo arrived to take Day 2 of the Nebraska Bar Exam. According to Arroyo, she arrived on Tuesday, February 22, 2022, around 7:15 a.m. to take the test. Part of the jurisdiction’s COVID-19 safety plan for […]
Read More >Virginia to Allow Law Students to Take the Bar Exam After Only 5 Semesters
The Virginia House of Delegates has now passed a bill allowing students at approved law schools to take the bar exam after completing only five (5) semesters of full-time legal study. Only one House lawmaker voted against the bill, which has yet to get a Senate vote. The bill would give students “a head start […]
Read More >South Dakota Rejects Alternatives to A Bar Exam
Future attorneys from the state of South Dakota will not get to use their diplomas to bypass taking the state bar exam that helps determine whether a person becomes licensed to practice law. The House State Affairs Committee made the decision Wednesday, voting 8-4 to reject an attempt to restore “diploma privilege” to South Dakota. The […]
Read More >“New” Bar Exam Still On Track For 2026
A 5-year overhaul of the bar exam is gaining momentum, with officials now close to detailing the legal knowledge and skills that the new attorney licensing test will assess. The National Conference of Bar Examiners said it plans to develop prototype questions by the end of this year and begin pilot testing what it has […]
Read More >Bar Exam COVID Rules Seem To Depend on What Zip Code You Are In
Law school graduates taking the February 2022 Bar Exam will encounter very different Covid-19 precautions depending on where they are taking the test. States that adopted differing patchworks to battle the Covid-19 pandemic are extending the variation to law graduates taking the biggest test of their lives. “For many, an already stressful experience will be […]
Read More >NY State bar seeks change to “discriminatory” bar admission question
The New York State Bar Association (NYSBA) is recommending a revision to the bar admission application, targeting the legality of a question about juvenile delinquency and criminal records. According to the report compiled by the NYSBA House of Delegates, question number 26 of the application fails to comply with the New York State Human Rights […]
Read More >Amid Omicron Surge, States Consider Alternatives to February Bar Exam
As we noted last week, Nevada became the first state to officially move the bar exam to an online format for the February Bar Exam, citing the spread of the Omicron variant of COVID-19. Now other states are trying to determine the best course of action for their exams as well. One of the increasingly […]
Read More >Nevada Becomes 1st State to Move Bar Exam Back Online For February
Nevada is now the first state to officially move its February Bar Exam back online as COVID-19 cases spike across the country. Instead of a two (2) day, in person bar exam on February 22 and 23, bar examinees will now take a stripped down, remote 2 day test that does not include the 200-question […]
Read More >Is The February Bar Exam Still Being Held In Person?
While we know that almost every state intends to hold the February 2022 Bar Exam in-person, most of these jurisdictions still do not have plans in place for how exactly the exam is to be administered. In June, the National Conference of Bar Examiners indicated that it would only make materials available for an in-person […]
Read More >Graduating from Law School as a Teenager?
Haley Taylor Schlitz is a rarity. She started college at 13, entered law school at 16 and will be only 19 when she gets her J.D., placing her among the small group of very young law students who actually graduate as teenagers. She is not alone. Famed journalist Ronan Farrow entered Yale Law School at […]
Read More >New York Bar Exam Is Tough, Even for Japanese Royalty
Japanese media has closely tracked the legal career of Kei Komuro since he became engaged to Princess Mako, the niece of Emperor Naruhito, in 2017, and moved to New York to attend Fordham University Law School. Komuro took the New York Bar Exam in July and the couple was just married on October 26th. Unfortunately, however, […]
Read More >California Adjusts Scores of Some July 2021 Bar Exam Takers
Following in the footsteps of a few other state bars, the State Bar of California has made the decision to adjust the scores of 2,429 test takers who encountered technical problems during the remote July 2021 Bar Exam. Additionally, the State is giving nearly 1,300 unsuccessful bar candidates another try at no extra cost. California […]
Read More >Arizona Law Grad Who Failed Bar Exam Asks to be Admitted Due To Technical Problems He Encountered
A former law student in Arizona who failed the remote online bar exam is asking the State Supreme Court to license him anyway, claiming software flaws kept him from passing the test. The petition was filed by Jordan Evan Greenman, who claims his computer screen went blank and his mouse and keyboard became disabled during […]
Read More >The Ups and Downs of the Just-Released NY Bar Exam Results
New York has just released the results of its July 2021 bar exam, leaving California as one of the last major jurisdictions to still be holding off on releasing results. California is not expected to report results until at least November 12th. For those keeping score, New York’s results were a bit of a mixed bag. […]
Read More >New York July 2021 Bar Exam Results are Now Posted
Check out the New York July 2021 bar exam results here To all of those who passed, congratulations! If you were not successful, contact us for a free score report evaluation and be sure to check out the Marino Retaker Program and Marino Tutoring options. Marino Bar Review is known for its success in helping retaker students pass the bar […]
Read More >New York Bar Exam Results Being Released!
The New York Bar Exam Results are Being Released! To all of those who passed, congratulations! If you were not successful, contact us for a free score report evaluation and be sure to check out the Marino Retaker Program and Marino Tutoring options. Marino Bar Review is known for its success in helping retaker students pass the bar exam […]
Read More >ExamSoft Responds To Claims It Ruined The Last Bar Exam
Senior executives for ExamSoft, whose software resulted in widespread technical problems on the July 2021 Bar Exam, have now told California Bar leaders that they have fixed the glitches that affected thousands of test-takers during the last bar exam. Company officials also said they “significantly increased their staff” to address complaints that some applicants waited hours to […]
Read More >California Releases Findings From its Investigation of Bar Exam Software Problems
Continuing to update you, several states are actively investigating the software issues that plagued bar exam takers during this past July’s bar exam. Results from a California investigation have determined that out of more than 7,000 exam takers for the July 2021 California Bar Exam, about 31% experienced software issues. However, the State Bar of […]
Read More >Bar Exam Results Delayed in Some States
While the bar exam results of some states have already been released, other states are likely to be delayed amid an ongoing probe into technical issues that some test-takers experienced. Both California and Illinois, for example, have now issued statements in which they have acknowledged that the results will not be released when expected. The […]
Read More >Results from the July Bar Exam are Being Released!
It is still early, but states are now beginning to release the results from the July 2021 bar exam. Pass rates fell in all but 2 of the 19 jurisdictions that have reported results thus far. Maine has notched the largest drop— its pass rate fell 27 percentage points to 59% compared to last year. […]
Read More >St. Mary’s Becomes 1st ABA-Accredited Law School Fully Online
St. Mary’s University School of Law in San Antonio, Texas, recently received approval from the American Bar Association to offer the nation’s first online-only ABA-accredited law degree program. Stephen Burnett, a law school adviser at the education consulting firm All Campus LLC, explained the importance of the approval – “with this online program, St. Mary’s […]
Read More >Will there be an investigation into the technical glitches in the last bar exam?
You may have heard about the reports of technical issues that many bar exam takers faced this past July. Now California State Bar Officials have announced they will open an investigation into complaints about the problems that occurred during the remote bar exam, with other state bars likely to follow. Applicants around the country reported […]
Read More >Will Legal Technology Skills Be Added To The Bar Exam?
There has been much discussion recently about possible changes to the bar exam. One suggestion proposed is to add legal technology as a new area tested on the exam. Bloomberg legal analyst Robert Brown recently wrote an article making the case for adding this subject. Brown notes that most law schools now offer some form […]
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