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South Dakota’s Pilot Bar Alternative Switches Out Studying Outlines For Community Service

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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. The program will be open to up to 10 USD law students a year over a period of five years.

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California Bar Grading Screw-Up Resulted In Several False Failures

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Some things happen with such regularity that you can set a clock to them: roosters crowing at dawn, Kant’s ghost strolling through Knigsberg in the afternoon, and new news of the California Bar screwing up the bar exam. What would happen if some of the test takers got false passes? Louis School of Law.

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California Bar Thinks Provisional Licensing Could Soak Up Some Of The Mess From Their Rushed Test

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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. Louis School of Law.

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Best Books for Lawyers

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While law school teaches students the intricacies of the law and how to pass the bar exam, it often fails to provide practical knowledge. Important skills such as client relationship building, workload management, and handling high-pressure situations are not given enough focus.

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A Perpetuities Problem Strikes In Wisconsin

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The rule against perpetuities was created for two reasons: (1) to torture bar exam applicants and (2) to establish that the long dead ought not have the right to intervene in the affairs of the living. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s.

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