JURIST
JANUARY 18, 2021
The petition challenges the Bar Council of India’s authority to prescribe a post-enrollment qualification for practising law. It also seeks a stay on the Bar Council’s December 21, 2020 notification which announces that the AIBE will be conducted twice, first on 24 January and then on 21 March 2021.
Above The Law
MAY 13, 2025
Now that the Bar walked back to the NCBE with their tail between their legs, test goers should only have to deal with the usual problems of the California bar, like its abnormally high score requirement to pass or being denied accommodations so you can take the damned thing.
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ABA Journal
APRIL 23, 2021
Despite the coronavirus chaos around July 2020 bar exams—including health fears for in-person bars, software problems with remote tests and jurisdictions making last-minute…
At the Lectern
OCTOBER 20, 2021
The Supreme Court today issued an administrative order stating that the 2-day bar exam at the end of February “will be administered in-person. ” By another order today, the court denied without prejudice a request to allow students in a law offices studies program (see Bus. & & Prof.
At the Lectern
FEBRUARY 26, 2021
Saying that the COVID-19 pandemic “continue[s] to severely limit the State Bar’s ability to administer” the bar exam as usual, the Supreme Court today issued an order requiring the July 27 and 28 test to be “administered online as a mostly remotely delivered exam.”
At the Lectern
OCTOBER 10, 2024
The Supreme Court today rejected a proposal that would have allowed prospective lawyers to bypass the traditional bar exam as a way to become licensed attorneys. The court has apparently not yet ruled on a State Bar proposal — resubmitted six days ago — to proceed with a new bar exam written by Kaplan Exam Services.
At the Lectern
JANUARY 13, 2021
Saying that the Supreme Court “chose to duly play its part in a system designed to exclude,” Shandyn Pierce, a member of the UC Hastings College of Law class of 2020, writes a scathing column in The Recorder criticizing the court’s handling of the latest bar exam, which he passed.
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