Preparing For The Bar Exam
Above The Law
JUNE 8, 2022
The post Preparing For The Bar Exam appeared first on Above the Law. It's that time of year.
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Is the Bar Exam Pushing Away Good Lawyers?
The Crime Report
OCTOBER 4, 2022
You didn’t take the bar exam. That’s probably because you didn’t go to law school. Law school is hard. Your first year is an elaborate hazing ritual in which we law professors pull out your brain and put it back in upside down. The bar exam. Good for you.
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South Dakota’s Pilot Bar Alternative Switches Out Studying Outlines For Community Service
Above The Law
MARCH 3, 2025
What if instead you could get some hands-on lawyering experience and help others along the way? The Public Opinion has coverage: As many as 50 South Dakota law students will be able to bypass the bar exam over the next five years under a set of rules for alternative licensure recently approved by the state Supreme Court.
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It Just Got Easier To Pass The Bar Exam In One State
Above The Law
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
The post It Just Got Easier To Pass The Bar Exam In One State appeared first on Above the Law. The lawyerly rite of passage is just a little less stressful -- for some folks.
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California Bar Exam Managed To Be Even Worse Than Expected
Above The Law
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
We all knew that this administration of the California bar exam would be a disaster. The new test employing Kaplan questions and administered by Meazure Learning suffered setback after setback in the lead up to the test, prompting the bar examiners to preemptively offer refunds and then a free retake.
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Buy One Get One Free Cal Bar Exams!
Above The Law
FEBRUARY 25, 2025
The February administration of the California bar exam is so broken that they’re offering a free July test to everyone who fails. Despite the trouble they’ve faced, California’s effort to reinvent the bar exam was born out of necessity. The post Buy One Get One Free Cal Bar Exams!
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What To Do If You Fail the Bar Exam
LegalTalkNetwork
AUGUST 27, 2024
The bar examination is a rigorous assessment designed to determine whether a law school graduate is adequately prepared and competent to practice law within a specific jurisdiction. However, because of its complexity, many candidates don’t pass on their initial attempt. And I said, ‘No!
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America Needs a ‘Lawyers Justice Corps’: Paper
The Crime Report
JUNE 22, 2021
A Lawyers Justice Corps should replace the bar exam as a certification of competence for new attorneys, argues Touro College Law Prof. Thomas Law Journal. Lawyers are needed to challenge racist practices, design new initiatives, and help communities overcome persistent bias,” the paper asserted.
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Ghana dispatch: local law students fight an expensive, uphill battle to enter a bar protecting its prestige
JURIST
JULY 18, 2023
During my first week in Accra, I had the opportunity to join Ghanaian law students from GIMPA Law School, one of the most prestigious university law faculties in Ghana, for a dinner. As we enjoyed jollof rice and stew, we compared notes on our respective law school experiences.
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Communication Tips You Didn’t Hear In Law School
ALPS
MARCH 29, 2023
Spare Yourself Headaches I n Your Law Practice by Following these Helpful Communication Tips: Hard to believe that around this time 20 years ago I was finishing up law school at Mercer University School of Law and would soon be prepping for the Georgia bar exam.
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What New Bar Exam Means For Law Students And Schools
Law 360
SEPTEMBER 30, 2022
Stephanie Acosta at UWorld discusses how law students and law schools can start preparing now for the new bar exam launching in 2026, which is expected to emphasize real-world lawyering skills-based tasks over rote memorization.
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Can AI Pass the Bar Exam?
InHouseBlog
JANUARY 9, 2023
If AI passes the bar exam, it certainly will not have trouble crafting a 62-page critical client memorandum that finishes with an unequivocal “maybe” Then it may move swiftly to increase 6-minute billing increments to half-hours (have to charge up those batteries and electricity isn’t cheap!), How did it do?
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Morning Docket: 09.23.24
Above The Law
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
* Judge says law firm "defiled the very temple of justice." [ Bloomberg Law News ] * Our national nightmare is over: law firm's Rosie the Ve-LAW-ciraptor mascot returned after being stolen two years ago. Law360 ] * Judge blasts plaintiffs in intellectual property lawsuit over Meta's AI training.
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What Really is the Distinction In between Paralegal and a Litigator?
LDA PRO
SEPTEMBER 13, 2021
So, what’s the distinction between a lawyer and a paralegal? After knowing about paralegals and their job you might want to hire paralegal services Roseville more than a lawyer. The difference between a lawyer and a paralegal . The primary distinction between a paralegal and a lawyer is their role in the courts.
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Baby Bar Steps — See Also
Above The Law
MAY 26, 2021
Kim Still Not A Baby Lawyer : In fairness, it's tough to study when distracted by a husband doing. Sir, This Is A Wendy's : It's not quite that bad, but one law professor bundled all of his law school complaints into an article about the bar exam for some reason.
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The Intersection Of Resilience And Failure
Above The Law
AUGUST 6, 2021
I was recently asked how I was able (finally) to pass the Texas Bar Exam while also struggling with cocaine addiction and alcohol use disorder (alcoholism). Here is my answer.
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Your Law Firm’s Employees Cost Too Much to Lose
The Estrin Report
MARCH 2, 2023
Most of the lawyers I know feel like their employees fall into one of two categories. The latter ones suck up lawyers’ time, need help, and don’t do their job all that well. There was always a new paralegal that could be hired or another lawyer graduating from law school. She was top of her class and law review.
Caila A Coleman: 5 Things You Need To Become A Top Lawyer In Your Field
The Estrin Report
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
Have people to bounce ideas off of: those people can be other lawyers, but also make sure you are talking to people who are NOT lawyers as well. Lawyers are often smart, ambitious, and highly educated. That being said, what does it take to stand out and become a “Top Lawyer” in your specific field of law?
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Sitting Shiva For DEI And Junior Lawyers
Above The Law
JANUARY 30, 2025
If two absolutely equally qualified lawyers interview for the one vacant position, who gets it? Women lawyers have not been as successful as men in the rainmaking aspect of the profession. Since NFL football is the quintessential old boys club, will Roger Goodell and the league get a pass? What about law schools?
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How to Become an Immigration Lawyer
LegalTalkNetwork
AUGUST 7, 2024
In January 1972, immigration attorney Leon Wildes received a call from an old law school friend asking for his help with a deportation case involving a musician and his wife. Here’s how you can follow in Wildes’ footsteps and change lives as an immigration lawyer.
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Essential Books for Lawyers at Every Stage of Their Career
LegalTalkNetwork
AUGUST 16, 2024
If you’re reading this blog, it’s likely because you’re either a legal professional with an empty bookshelf or you’re trying to come up with a gift idea for the lawyer in your life who’s impossible to buy for. Clarke School of Law, often finds law students in his office, teary-eyed and frustrated.
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40 Wellness Tips For Lawyers
InHouseBlog
APRIL 27, 2022
Wellness tips for lawyers are in great demand for a profession that has struggled with the health and wellbeing of its members. Fortunately, the ABA Journal has gathered some experts and put together a fantastic set of tips that are worth a look by all lawyers – corporate counsel and law firm lawyers alike.
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Sivonnia DeBarros: How to Be a Top Lawyer in Your Field
Attorney at Work
MARCH 23, 2022
What does it take to become a successful lawyer in your particular niche or practice area? In a series of in-depth interviews for the Estrin Report , Chere Estrin profiles top lawyers from all types of practices. SL DeBarros Law Firm. Five Things You Need to Become a Top Lawyer. Sivonnia DeBarros. Woodstock, IL.
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Supreme Court flunks alternative-to-bar-exam pathway
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.
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Guest Post: How Santa Clara Law Graduates Students with a ‘Tech Edge’
LawSites
JULY 9, 2021
In this guest post, Laura Lee Norris , director of the program, and Mark Michels , lecturer in law, describe the program and how it prepares students for careers as tech lawyers in Silicon Valley. Santa Clara University School of Law graduated its first Tech Edge JD cohort in May 2021.
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Bar examiners recommend changes for future exams
JURIST
JANUARY 5, 2021
.” The recommendations are the result of a three-year, “comprehensive, empirical study to ensure that the bar examination continues to assess the minimum competencies required of newly licensed lawyers in an evolving legal profession, and to determine how those competencies should be assessed.”
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Congratulations On Passing The Bar
Above The Law
OCTOBER 12, 2021
Why do lawyers love to ruin joy?
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Top 15 LawNext Podcast Episodes of 2023 and of All Time
LawSites
DECEMBER 29, 2023
Most popular this year: My interview with Daniel Martin Katz and Michael Bommarito just after their first try at having GPT take the bar exam. Can GPT Pass the Bar Exam? Casetext’s Three Top Execs On CoCounsel, GPT-4 and ‘A New Age in the Practice of Law’. Top 15 of 2023 1. We Find Out.
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BOGO And A DOJ No-Go
Above The Law
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
However, I cant resist writing about the California State Bars latest snafu: the February bar exam held this week. The California State Bar has its very own BOGO now. The bar is falling all over itself in apologies, as well it should mea culpas from an institution not known to readily take responsibility for screwups.
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A Path to eDiscovery Certification
Paralegal Bootcamp
MAY 11, 2023
Meet Our Guest Expert Mike Quartararo is the President of the Association of Certified E-Discovery Specialists (ACEDS), the world’s leading organization for training and certification in e-discovery. He also operates a successful consulting practice that provides guidance to corporate legal departments and law firms.
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My 40 Most-Read Blog Posts This Year Tell A Story Of A Legal Industry Consumed With Generative AI
LawSites
DECEMBER 27, 2023
Two popular stories were about GPT taking the bar exam: one in March when GPT passed the bar exam, and the second in November when it passed the legal ethics exam. Circuit Court Considers Rule Requiring Lawyers to Certify they Did Not Rely on AI to Create Filings (Nov. In First for A U.S.
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Paralegal vs. Lawyer: Key Differences and Career Paths
Paralegal-Edu.Org
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
While the spotlight often shines on lawyers, paralegals also have an enormous impact on legal cases. Both paralegals and lawyers contribute significantly to the legal process. Sometimes folks jump straight into paralegal work, while others aim directly for law school. Where Lawyers Step In Now, consider lawyers.
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Five Questions to Ask a New Client
Attorney at Work
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
Good lawyer-client relations are less about you knowing the answers and much more about knowing the right questions to ask. It’s one of the fundamentals they drummed into you in law school: It is your job to know the answers. Lawyer-Client Relations: Socrates Was On to Something. Well, yes and no.
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Path To Well-Being In Law: Episode 14 – Kyle McEntee
ALPS
MAY 19, 2021
The National Taskforce on Lawyer Wellbeing, we had such a success with a report. Today, let’s delve a little bit more into another, I think, area of the wellbeing discussion that is a really important one, and that’s the intersection of wellbeing and the role of law schools. It is such an exciting time.
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Chief Justice Roberts, In Year-End Report, Says AI Won’t Make Judges Obsolete, But Will Transform their Work
LawSites
JANUARY 2, 2024
“For those who cannot afford a lawyer, AI can help. “The paper world familiar to lawyers for centuries had largely given way to today’s electronic regime.” ” He notes that AI can earn Bs on law school exams and even pass the bar exam, and he says that legal research “may soon be unimaginable without it.”
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The Federal Judiciary: The Most Dangerous White-Collar Workplace In America
Above The Law
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
Not exactly the overwhelmingly positive , lifelong mentor/mentee relationships that law school clerkship programming and social media ram down our throats. Our surveys, which anyone who clerked can submit , and anyone applying can access for a small fee , suggest that 75% to 80% of clerkship experiences are positive.
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Women of Legal Tech: Amanda Brown
LawTechnologyToday
FEBRUARY 22, 2021
Every Monday and Wednesday, we will be featuring a woman from our class of 2021. Amanda Brown is the Executive Director of the Lagniappe Law Lab. Young lawyer turned legal tech geek. In August 2017, I went all-in as a class member of the ABA Center for Innovation’s inaugural NextGen Fellowship.
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What IS a paralegal, exactly?
LexBlog
JULY 26, 2019
I think a shorter list is what one is not, but in summary, paralegals provide day to day support by assisting attorneys, law offices, or other various agencies conducting research, drafting legal documents, and handling cases. What is the difference between a lawyer and a paralegal? Paralegals are an attorney’s right-hand person.
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Yet another conference with no straight grants
At the Lectern
MAY 4, 2023
Bar admission denial. The court denied a would-be lawyer’s petition for review in Camper on Admission. The Committee’s response was that a degree is a prerequisite to sitting for the bar exam and the issue whether the school improperly withheld Camper’s degree was not properly before the court.
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Former Supreme Court attorney, and champion of Nepal’s children, dies
At the Lectern
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
After growing up in New York and graduating from Columbia University and then the law school at George Washington University, Murray moved to California and passed the Bar exam in 1954. Born into an ethnic Hungarian family in Transylvania, Romania, Murray immigrated to the United States at age 6.
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Q&A With Heather Stevenson: A Less Traditional Path
Attorney at Work
MARCH 30, 2022
Attorney at Work’s new “Women in Law” series honors Women’s History Month with a focus on successful women lawyers who have carved a path for themselves in the legal industry and beyond. Columbia University School of Law. Plus, I was starting to miss thinking like a lawyer. Inspiring Stories From Women in Law.
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For Busy Law Firms, “Do It For You” Services Are a Smart Play
Rocket Matter
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
Let's face it: you didn't go to law school to become a web developer. So, what's a busy law firm to do? On your quest for the right payment processor, look for features that streamline and support the way law firms operate. Get free guide How to Master Your Law Firm’s Time and Billing Lawyers have a heavy workload.
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Next-Gen Bar Exam That Truly Tests Daily Practice Skills Must Include Technology
LawTechnologyToday
APRIL 18, 2023
In today’s legal profession, lawyers must be technologically competent. Law schools have a duty to maintain a rigorous program of legal education and enable students to develop their professional identity. Examinees will be required to perform the activities typically required of a newly licensed lawyer.
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