Syracuse Law to offer AccessLex Institute Helix Bar Review to students at no charge
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW — In a national first, Syracuse University College of Law has partnered with legal education nonprofit AccessLex Institute to offer AccessLex’s interactive Helix Bar Review prep course free of charge to all Syracuse Law students.
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UNIVERSITY OF CINNINATI –When Joel Chanvisanuruk, JD ’06, was hired as director of Academic Success and Bar Programs at Cincinnati Law in 2009, conventional wisdom pointed to incoming student credentials—notably, LSAT scores and undergraduate GPAs—as the best indicators of bar passage. Now, thanks to a collaboration with Amy Farley and Christopher Swoboda, both of who are…
Read More about University of Cincinnati researchers release report on the factors behind student bar exam successTest software company apologizes for glitches that crashed bar exam
BLOOMBERG LAW — ExamSoft is apologizing for malfunctions of software it provided for last month’s remote bar exams, faulting the process for coordinating and controlling computer memory.“We strive to make the exam process seamless for exam-takers and the certifying bodies,” company spokeswoman Nici Sandberg said in a statement. “Unfortunately, for some July 2021 bar exam-takers, this…
Read More about Test software company apologizes for glitches that crashed bar examStates evaluate bar exams and law licensing amid pandemic
AP NEWS — For three intense years, law students like Chase Wilde can’t escape the thought that the bar exam is waiting for them once they finish. He said the test maintains a powerful presence over students, always there in the back of their minds and often dictating which classes they take.
Read More about States evaluate bar exams and law licensing amid pandemicOregon lawyers respond to state’s alternative law licensing proposals
EAST OREGONIAN — The Oregon State Bar is considering doing something that no other state has done before: making the Unified Bar Exam optional.
Read More about Oregon lawyers respond to state’s alternative law licensing proposalsLaw class of 2020 bar passage and employment rates held steady amid pandemic
NATIONAL JURIST — The Class of 2020 had better first-time bar exam results than the previous, non-pandemic class. It passed at an 82.83% clip, compared to the 79.64% passing rate notched by the Class of 2019, according to American Bar Association statistics.
Read More about Law class of 2020 bar passage and employment rates held steady amid pandemicBar examiners plan return to in-person exams after July administration
REUTERS – The National Conference of Bar Examiners last month announced it does not plan to give jurisdictions the option to give the two-day attorney licensing test online again, and will return to only providing an in-person exam starting with the next test in February 2022.
Read More about Bar examiners plan return to in-person exams after July administrationOpinion: William and Mary Law dean A. Benjamin Spencer encourages bar exam reforms, not elimination
BLOOMBERG LAW — Calls for eliminating bar exams to improve fairness and diversity in the legal profession are increasing, but A. Benjamin Spencer, dean of William & Mary Law School, argues that eliminating them is not the answer. They should be transformed into a more effective gauge of professional readiness, which, he contends, can be achieved…
Read More about Opinion: William and Mary Law dean A. Benjamin Spencer encourages bar exam reforms, not eliminationOregon moves closer to alternative licensing pathways for lawyers
REUTERS — Currently, Oregon participates in the Uniform Bar Exam (UBE) as its primary approach to licensure. The addition of the experiential learning and the supervised practice pathway would offer two more methods with all three ensuring specific competencies are met to practice law in the state.
Read More about Oregon moves closer to alternative licensing pathways for lawyersOpinion: New York should keep the Uniform Bar Exam
BLOOMBERG LAW — Two members of the ABA’s Young Lawyer Division say a recent article by members of the New York State Bar Association Task Force on the Bar Examination that called for abandoning the Uniform Bar Exam was off the mark.
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