California Bar approves temporary law licenses in place of bar exam for new law school graduates
BLOOMBERG LAW — The California State Bar’s Board of Trustees approved a plan that would grant temporary licenses to recent law school grads for less than two years.
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SAN FRANSISCO CHRONICLE — Samuel Humy graduated from Cornell Law School this year and moved to California. With a job lined up with the Santa Clara County Public Defender Office, he planned to take the California State Bar exam over the summer and start work in early August as a lawyer.
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REUTERS — The State Bar of California and the National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE) pushed back this week against claims that the state is discriminating against disabled aspiring lawyers in its upcoming bar exam, which is set to take place mostly online next month.
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ORLANDO SENTINEL — After Ivonne Antonian graduated from Florida A&M University’s law school in Orlando, she lined up a job at the Orange-Osceola Public Defender’s Office and was eager to begin her career as an attorney.
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ABA JOURNAL — State board of law examiners are requiring that people who wish to sit for the October online bar exam take and submit mock exams. However, these mock exams are causing computer problems for some, and software provider ExamSoft is providing little if any assistance, according to people planning to take the exam.
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BLOOMBERG LAW — The District of Columbia has become the fifth jurisdiction to grant certain U.S. law school graduates to be licensed to practice law without taking the bar exam.
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LOS ANGELES TIMES — The nation’s largest public university system will continue with primarily online instruction for the remainder of the academic year amid the state’s ongoing coronavirus crisis, California State University Chancellor Timothy P. White announced Thursday in a letter to students, faculty and staff.
Read More about California State University system continue online instruction into spring semesterUniversity of Wyoming Law pauses in-person classes due to rise in COVID-19 cases on campus
LARAMIE BOOMERANG — A COVID-19 outbreak at the University of Wyoming College of Law has led to a brief isolation, UW President Ed Seidel told Laramie City Council Tuesday night.
Read More about University of Wyoming Law pauses in-person classes due to rise in COVID-19 cases on campusTexas hosts in-person September bar exam at hotels around the state
ABA JOURNAL — Among the many worries for people taking recent in-person bar exams during the COVID-19 pandemic, some were logistical: How could they maintain social distancing during the test? Would public restrooms be germ magnets? Could they safely eat with others?
Read More about Texas hosts in-person September bar exam at hotels around the stateUniversity officials concerned about political interference with CDC COVID-19 recommendations
INSIDE HIGHER ED — Colleges rely on guidance from a federal health agency that is operating, as one public health expert put it, “with two hands tied behind its back.”
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