Arkansas Supreme Court keeps in-person bar exam in July
4029 NEWS — Arkansas State Supreme Court ruled this week that the state in-person bar exam would go forward. It has been set since before the COVID-19 pandemic began for July 28 & 29.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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MISSOULIAN — Graduates from the University of Montana’s law school filed a petition Thursday with the Montana Supreme Court requesting a special exemption from the Montana Bar Exam.
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NEW JERSEY GLOBE — A group of recent law school graduates urged the New Jersey Supreme Court to let them practice law without taking the bar exam over concerns that in-person tests slated for September could expose the graduates to the novel coronavirus. The unsigned letter, sent to Chief Justice Stuart Rabner on Saturday, urged to…
Read More about New Jersey law graduates petition state supreme court to waive bar exam and grant diploma privilege amid pandemicNew York lawmakers propose legislation providing law graduates with path to law practice without bar exam
SPECTRUM NEWS — New York law students should be granted a form of diploma privilege to become practicing attorneys after the state bar examination scheduled for September was canceled. Sen. Brad Hoylman and Assemblywoman Jo Ann Simon backed the legislation that would apply to law school graduates for the duration of the declared state of emergency for the coronavirus…
Read More about New York lawmakers propose legislation providing law graduates with path to law practice without bar examOklahoma law students seek alternatives to in-person bar exam to enter profession
KOCO ABC NEWS — Some law students are signing an open letter to Oklahoma Supreme Court Chief Justice Noma Gurich, asking the court to put some kind of alternative in place for the bar exam as concerns about the test being a super-spreader event for COVID-19 grow.
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THE ROANOKE TIMES — Citing concerns over potential COVID-19 infection, a group of law school graduates who are registered to take the Virginia bar exam in Roanoke at the end of this month have proposed an unconventional solution: waive that notoriously difficult requirement.
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10 CBC KWTX — Baylor University Monday canceled an in-person ceremony next month honoring May and August graduates. The university earlier announced it would host the in-person ceremony on Aug. 14 and Aug. 15, but said Monday it will instead provide a virtual ceremony on Aug. 15 on Facebook Live to honor May and August graduates…
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