Florida law deans urge Florida Supreme Court to address concerns with upcoming bar exam
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW — The deans of Florida’s 12 law schools asked the justices of the Florida Supreme Court today to address the issues surrounding the upcoming Florida Bar Exam in light of the COVID-19 pandemic with regard to the licensing of new attorneys in the state.
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ABA JOURNAL — On Friday, the NCBE announced that it will have materials for more administrations in July and September. In addition to the July 28 to 29 exam, the fall test dates are scheduled for Sept. 9 to 10 and Sept. 30 to Oct. 1, according to an NCBE email.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — The American Bar Association’s Board of Governors passed a policy resolution this week urging state licensing authorities to allow 2019 and 2020 law graduates who can’t take the July bar exam to practice law in a limited capacity. Some jurisdictions already have canceled the July administration of the test due to COVID-19.
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ABA JOURNAL — Under the resolution, limited practice rules would apply to graduates of ABA-accredited law schools who graduated between 2019 and 2020 and have not yet taken the bar exam. Limited authorization would end if someone takes and fails a bar exam, and people who previously failed a bar exam would not be eligible under…
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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…
Read More about Indiana Supreme Court issues order allowing 2020 law graduates to practice law as ‘graduate legal interns’Less than half of test-takers pass Indiana Bar Exam in February
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.
Read More about Less than half of test-takers pass Indiana Bar Exam in FebruaryNew York law school deans urge state to allow graduates to practice law amid bar exam delays
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.
Read More about New York law school deans urge state to allow graduates to practice law amid bar exam delaysHawaii reschedules July bar exam to fall
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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