New York Bar Exam
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Bar Exams, Law Schools
Law School Blames Lazy Graduates With Low GPAs For Abysmal Performance On Bar Exam
This law school's bar exam passage rates continue to sink lower and lower. -
Bar Exams
New York Bar Exam Results Reveal Higher Passage Rates Thanks To The UBE
What a pleasant surprise. Congratulations to those who passed! - Sponsored
Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
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Bar Exams
New York Bar Exam Results Are Here! Wait, No They're Not...
HOLY CRAP. Wait a second... what's that in your email? Ugh, never mind.
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Bar Exams
Things Aren't Going Well For These Poor Souls Taking The Bar Exam
I'm so glad I never have to take the bar exam again. -
Bar Exams
New York's February Bar Exam Results Reveal Worst Pass Rates In More Than A Decade
Ugh. Just how terrible are the results this time? -
Bar Exams, Sponsored Content
Ask The Professor: Retaking The New York Bar Exam This Summer? 5 Things You Need To Know About The New Uniform Bar Exam
New York has adopted the Uniform Bar Exam (UBE) and it will be administered for the first time starting in July 2016. Will the test this July will look entirely different than the one you took last time? -
Bar Exams, Law Schools
Stats Of The Week: New York State Bar Exam Results By School
A school-by-school look at the latest grim New York State bar passage rates. -
Bar Exams, Law Schools
Law School Reveals How Poorly Graduates With Low GPAs Fared On July 2015 Bar Exam
Which law school released information on these disappointing results, and how does it plan to help struggling students? - Sponsored
Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
If 2023 introduced legal professionals to generative AI, then 2024 will be when law firms start adapting to utilize it. Things are moving fast, so… -
Bar Exams, Sponsored Content
Ask The Professor: I Am Not Privileged Enough To Be Tutored For The Bar Exam
Tutoring is not just for the privileged. It is for all of us. Look into it. You will find it can make a huge difference. -
Bar Exams
New York Bar Exam Results Reveal Worst Pass Rates In More Than A Decade
This is terrible. How bad is the damage? -
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 07.21.15
* There’s a “small but organized minority of law professors” trying to keep students from getting paid. Go tell the ABA not to listen to them. [Professor Bainbridge]
* Taking the bar exam in New York? Want a pre-ordered lunch? These folks have your back. They’re extending their deadline for ordering. [Custom Gourmet NY]
* Line up to buy your “.law” address! [Adjunct Law Prof Blog]
* Estimating the cost of eDiscovery. In monetary terms, not in the souls of contract attorneys. [Logikcull]
* Kansas Governor Sam Brownback needs money, and he’s apparently not above asking officials with business before his office for cash. [Topeka Capital-Journal]
* Questions not to ask in an interview. Forgot to include, “Does this look infected?” [JD Supra]
* When you want to close a sale, be present in the moment. [Law and More]
* Want to join a college faculty? Here’s where to work. Spread that anti-law-school hate to the next generation. [TaxProf Blog]
* David Lat joins Sam Glover to discuss the future of Biglaw and SmallLaw. [Lawyerist]
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Bar Exams, Law Schools, Sponsored Content
Ask The Professor: Why Do We Need the Bar Exam Anyway?
Why have a bar exam if it is going to be more of what law school is supposed to test and does not test something important to the state giving the test?
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Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
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Bar Exams
OMG, The New York Bar Exam Results Are Out!
Woohoo, the results of the July 2014 New York bar exam have been released! -
Bar Exams, Screw-Ups, Technology, Weirdness
Congrats, February Bar Passers!(And how one New Yorker got early results.)
How did one New York bar exam candidate get early word? -
Bar Exams, California, Law Schools
New York Bar Exam Results By Law School: Open Thread (2013)
The school-by-school breakdown of the New York bar exam results is out. Let's take a look! -
Bar Exams, Biglaw, D.C. Circuit, Email Scandals, Law Firm Mergers, Law Schools, Morning Docket, Politics, SCOTUS, Stephen Breyer, Supreme Court
Morning Docket: 11.25.13
* In November, Supreme Court justices engaged in the “totally unnecessary” practice of releasing 41 pages of nondecision opinions. In all fairness, we can’t really blame them for enjoying hearing themselves speak. [National Law Journal]
* These D.C. Circuit judges of differing political viewpoints “disagreed less than 3 percent of the time” over the course of two decades. Please, keep arguing about the court’s “ideological balance.” You’re accomplishing lots. [New York Times]
* With more tie-ups than ever before and another record broken, 2013 is officially the year of full-blown law firm merger mania. Query how many more we’ll be able to add to the already huge list of 78 by the end of December. [Am Law Daily]
* Speaking of which, Baker Hostetler is merging with Woodcock Washburn, an intellectual property firm with a name that sounds like the aftercare instructions for a painful sex toy injury. [Philadelphia Inquirer]
* Of course a fired ADA’s scandalous emails landed on BuzzFeed. This is one more embarrassing chapter in the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year. [New York Times]
* It’s amazing how things can change in a year. In 2012, New York bar pass rates for in-state schools fell. In 2013, they’re up — except for one school, which is way down. Which one? [New York Law Journal]
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Attorney Misconduct, Bar Exams, Law Professors, Legal Ethics, Securities and Exchange Commission
Law School Professor Busted Lying To Federal Judge, Goes Back to Teaching Ethics
The scandal may not bring down this professor, but failing as a professor just might. -
Bar Exams
The New York Bar Exam Results Are Out!
OMG, the results of the July 2013 New York bar exam have been released! -
9th Circuit, Banking Law, Bar Exams, Biglaw, Books, Federal Government, Federal Judges, Law Schools, Money, Morning Docket, Racism, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, SCOTUS, Sentencing Law, Sports, Student Loans, Supreme Court, United Kingdom / Great Britain, Video games
Morning Docket: 08.01.13
Ed. note: We are having an Above the Law retreat this afternoon, so we may be less prolific than usual today. We will return to our regularly scheduled programming tomorrow.
* “I think I am now the hardest-working justice. I wasn’t until David Souter left us.” Justice Ginsburg celebrates her twentieth year on the high bench in true diva style. [USA Today]
* Sorry, EA, the Ninth Circuit thought your First Amendment free expression defense to allegedly stealing college sports players’ likenesses was a load of hooey. [Wall Street Journal]
* “It’s a decision that clearly favors the merchants.” A federal judge gave the Fed a spanking in a ruling on its cap for debit card fees earned by banks after consumer swipes. [DealBook / New York Times]
* “What makes this discriminatory? I don’t think there’s anything in Title 7 that says an employer has to be consistent.” Ropes & Gray’s “token black associate” had his day in court. [National Law Journal]
* The firm that outed J.K. Rowling as author of “The Cuckoo’s Calling” will make a charitable donation as an apology — getting the book to the bestseller’s list wasn’t charitable enough. [New York Times]
* As the bar exam draws to a close today, here’s something to consider: 12,250 people signed up to take the test in New York alone. Are there jobs out there for them? Best of luck! [New York Law Journal]
* The feds want to make a better return on their investment on law student loans. Perhaps it’s time for those good old gainful employment regulations. [Student Loan Ranger / U.S. News & World Report]
* Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro is expected to speak at his sentencing hearing today, where a judge will decide if a term of life in prison plus 1,000 years is appropriate punishment for him. [CBS News]