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Opinion: California should look at the necessity of the bar exam amid pandemic

July 23, 2020

LOS ANGELES TIMES — The state Supreme Court, the State Bar of California and about 9,000 recent law school graduates find themselves in a jam. It is almost the traditional time for the July bar exam, the annual hazing ritual that determines whether students have wasted three years of their lives or, instead, will be licensed…

California schedules remote bar exam in October and lowers bar pass score permanently

July 23, 2020

THE SACRAMENTO BEE — California is refusing to cancel its bar exam despite complications created by the COVID-19 pandemic — but is offering would-be lawyers the option of taking an online test or accepting a “provisional” license that’s good for up to two years.

California to allow temporary practice for some law graduates amid bar exam delays

July 23, 2020

BLOOMBERG LAW — California’s highest court is delaying the state’s online bar exam until October and will allow some law school graduates to practice temporarily before passing the test, moves made in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Colorado Supreme Court updates protocols for the upcoming bar exams due to COVID-19

July 23, 2020

CPR NEWS — The Colorado Supreme Court announced updated protocols to the upcoming bar exam in response to a group of law students advocating to cancel the test due to the coronavirus pandemic. Under the new guidelines, law students will be able to transfer their applications for the July exam to the February test date and apply…

Colorado’s law graduates push for additional changes to bar licensing amid pandemic

July 23, 2020

DAILY CAMERA — Law school graduates who don’t want to take Colorado’s in-person bar exam this month over COVID-19 fears can switch to the February test and, in the meantime, begin work as lawyers in limited and supervised capacities, the state Supreme Court has ordered.

University of Idaho Law faculty ask state supreme court to grant diploma privilege for recent graduates

July 23, 2020

EAST IDAHO NEWS.COM — Twenty-one professors at the University of Idaho College of Law signed a letter to the Idaho Supreme Court asking them to grant “diploma privilege,” which would allow graduating students meeting certain requirements to forgo to the bar exam this year and receive their license to practice law.

Kentucky Supreme Court cancels in-person bar exam and will offer remote exam in October

July 23, 2020

NORTHERN KENTUCKY TRIBUNE — The Supreme Court of Kentucky has entered amended order 2020-50 canceling the July 28-29 and Sept. 30-Oct. 1 bar examinations due to ongoing concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic. To protect the health and safety of bar applicants, employees and volunteers, the Kentucky Office of Bar Admissions will administer a remote bar examination…

Louisiana Supreme Court cancels July bar exam

July 23, 2020

LOUISIANA SUPREME COURT — After consultation, evaluation and advice from the Louisiana Supreme Court Committee on Bar Admissions and the Deans of the Louisiana Law Schools, it has been determined that administering the Louisiana State Bar Examination on July 27 would be imprudent for health and safety reasons related to the COVID-19 virus.

Mississippi bar exam test takers must sign liability waiver for July bar exam

July 23, 2020

CLARION LEDGER — An estimated 160 perspective lawyers scheduled to take the July bar exam in person to become licensed attorneys in Mississippi are being required to sign a form that won’t hold the Board of Bar Admissions liable if they contract COVID-19 while taking the exam.

Missouri Supreme Court to keep in-person July bar exam

July 23, 2020

MISSOURI LAWYERS MEDIA — The Missouri Supreme Court said July 9 that Missouri’s in-person bar exam will take place as scheduled this month, despite calls from students and the deans of all four of Missouri’s law schools to cancel it as COVID-19 cases rise.