Kentucky Office of Bar Admissions scoring error affects 15 applicants who were initially informed they passed the bar exam
CNN — A Kentucky lawmaker is outraged after a scoring error led to 15 people being incorrectly told they had passed the state bar exam. Three who had been told they did not pass were told they actually passed. Officials said the mistake was not discovered prior to the release of the results.
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MICHIGAN LAWYERS WEEKLY — Michigan’s February bar exam will be conducted remotely, according to a Michigan Supreme Court announcement. What’s not changing is the traditional two-day format: the Board of Law Examiners, or BLE, will administer the online test Feb. 23-24, 2021.
Read More about Michigan to conduct February bar exam remotelyUpdated ABA bar pass standard to consider pandemic challenges and students practicing under diploma privilege
ABA JOURNAL — Law schools now must report the number of recent graduates admitted by diploma privilege in their annual questionnaires in addition to those who took and passed a bar exam. In a remote meeting Friday, the council of the ABA’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar adopted the revision as proposed.
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THE RECORDER/LAW.COM — A state bar committee on Friday endorsed a path to full licensure for certain recent law school graduates who have taken but not passed California’s bar exam. The Provisional Licensure Working Group adopted two sets of supervised practice requirements.
Read More about California Bar working group endorses supervised practice requirementsFlorida releases October online bar exam results
CBS 12 — The bar exam was delayed twice as a result of COVID-19, preventing students from getting the opportunity to begin their careers. The test was administered online and students were only tested for Florida-specific laws and not federal laws like previous tests. There was a 72 percent pass rate statewide.
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BLOOMBERG LAW — Florida in February will again hold its bar exam remotely to avoid exposing test-takers to the coronavirus, the state’s Supreme Court announced Wednesday as cases spiked in the state. The court didn’t want to risk canceling an in-person test as it did in July amid a worrisome increase in Covid-19 cases.
Read More about Florida to hold February bar exam remotely due to rising COIVD-19 casesSoftware contractor for Georgia bar exam heads to federal court over negligence claims
BLOOMBERG LAW — ILG Technologies LLC convinced a federal judge that only negligent misrepresentation claims can proceed in a case brought by a group of Georgia bar applicants after a software glitch caused them to be wrongly told they failed the exam.
Read More about Software contractor for Georgia bar exam heads to federal court over negligence claimsIndiana to hold February bar exam remotely
WIBC — The Indiana Supreme Court has unanimously ordered adjustments to future bar exams. They are making the adjustments due to concerns about the coronavirus and after reviewing a report called the “Study Commission on the Future of the Indiana Bar Examination.”
Read More about Indiana to hold February bar exam remotelyNorth Carolina to hold February bar exam remotely due to rising COIVD-19 cases
LAW360 — The North Carolina Board of Law Examiners announced Monday it would hold the February 2021 bar exam remotely after refusing to adopt such an option for the July 2020 exam, citing the availability of new options from the National Council of Bar Examiners and the state’s rising COVID-19 cases.
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ACCESSLEX — The 2020 Legal Education Data Deck utilizes datasets made publicly available by third parties to offer a snapshot of certain data and trends organized around the three guiding principles of AccessLex Institute’s research agenda: access, affordability and value in legal education. This is a living document that is updated periodically.
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