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New York Bar Exam Results Are Out; Congratulations To Everyone Who Passed!

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Well, isn’t this a nice surprise! The results of the July 2012 administration of the New York bar exam have been released — ahead of schedule, as it turns out. And this time it appears to be an intentional rather than accidental release.

The New York State Board of Law Examiners previously stated that it would announce the results tomorrow, Friday, November 2. But NY BOLE went ahead and made results available to applicants tonight, at around 10 p.m. or so.

Keep reading, for a link to the results page and commentary from Above the Law readers….

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Quote of the Day: Bar Takers Are A Jumpy Bunch
(Texas and D.C. are here; New York is coming soon.)

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ny bar exam results tomorrow. collective productivity of 1st-yr associates just dipped into negative numbers

– @dehodges, via Twitter, commenting on the impending news from NY BOLE — which, yes, we will cover.

(A lot of nervous bar takers have turned to Twitter to express their anxiety. Check out a couple of our favorite tweets after the jump. We’ve also got some responses to the Texas and D.C. results, which came out today.)

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Congratulations to All Bar Exam Finishers!
(And more horror stories from across the land.)

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Is the bar exam like a rat race? Well, when there are actual rats in the building....

If you just completed the 2012 bar exam, congratulations. For many of you, the bar exam will be the last test you ever take in your life. How good does that feel?

Special congratulations to those of you who just emerged from three days of bar exam misery, either because you took the bar in a state with a three-day test or because you took the bar in two different states. I took the New York and New Jersey bar exams back to back — and I had to take New York up in Albany, which meant hours of driving with a fried mind — so I feel your pain.

Pain and the bar exam go hand in hand. Earlier this week, we shared with you bar exam horror stories from Virginia and North Carolina.

Today we have many more bar exam dispatches. Read on for stories of horror and heroism, reports of rodents and other creepy critters, and claims of shady behavior….

UPDATE (7/27/2012, 11 AM): Please note the UPDATE appended below regarding the Virginia bar exam.

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Fun Fact of the Day: That’s Supposed to Be a Discount?

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– the total cost for hotel accommodations during the July 2012 New York Bar Exam at the Desmond Hotel and Conference Center in Albany, one of the NY BOLE-approved test sites. Their “special rate” for the bar exam is $209.00 per night. The same room goes for $179.00 per night the following week.

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New York February Bar Exam Results Released Under Cloak Of Darkness

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The results of the February New York bar exam are available for private look-up.

They’ve actually been available for nine hours. If you didn’t know that, it’s because the New York State Board of Law Examiners decided to release this crucial information at midnight last night/this morning.

Who does that? Well, remember that a couple of years ago the NY BOLE accidentally released the results for full public viewing and then pulled it back. This is not an organization that has its act together.

In any event, let’s check out some of the late night reactions to the bar results…

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New York February Bar Results Are Coming Out Today

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That was quick. Last night, we ran a story about the threatening message up on the New York State Board of Law Examiners website. Predictably, that message is now gone (which is why we took a screen shot, yesterday). But it’s been replaced with the kind of relevant information people are actually looking for when they check the NY BOLE website:

That’s what people like to see; results. Some of our tipsters are claiming that they already received their results email.

So, February bar takers, New York State knows whether or not you passed.

Congrats or condolences, respectively.

Earlier: Recent Bar Exam Results: Open Thread
(And: Is the New York Board of Law Examiners Threatening Me?)

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Recent Bar Exam Results: Open Thread
(And: Is the New York Board of Law Examiners Threatening Me?)

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‘Tis the season for bar exam results. If you took the bar in February we’re sorry, your score should be on its way.

Several states have announced since our last open thread, which covered Illinois and Kansas. Last week, scores came out for Florida, Massachusetts, and Virginia. Scores have also been out for a while from Missouri and Idaho (where the names of the February bar passers fit on one page).

Congratulations to those who passed; keep your head up if you failed. Please share your stories of triumph or sadness — and mention other states I might have missed — in the comments.

The New York State February bar results are still not in. But do you remember what happened the last time the New York Board of Law Examiners (BOLE) tried to release the results of the test? The results to last July’s NY Bar Exam were accidentally released online at the exact moment a number of readers happened to be looking for results. BOLE then tried to depublish the results and pretend that the mistake never happened. But they were flummoxed by the “CTRL – Print Screen” skills of myself and others. So the July bar results ended going up live on Above the Law, and NY BOLE eventually had to admit its mistake.

Well, it seems that six months later, NY BOLE is still reluctant to admit that they simply screwed up. Instead they’re trying to act like ninja computer hackers are after their lucky charms or something….

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New York Bar Examiners Admit to Accidental Release of New York Bar Results

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I don’t know how the New York Law Journal managed to get through this entire story without mentioning Above the Law. But we’ll deal with that later. For now, let’s talk about the New York Board of Law Examiners (BOLE) finally admitting that the results for the July 2010 bar exam were in fact accidentally released on Friday afternoon. According to the report, the list of bar passers was accidentally published while they were preparing to allow individual bar exam takers to look up their results using their BOLE IDs.

It’s a point I made in the comments on this post. Once the list was out on Above the Law, there was no reason for NY BOLE to keep it a secret, so they made the full list available for public viewing on Saturday — a good three or four days before they intended to do so.

If New York Law Journal reporter Joel Stashenko and/or his editor actually paid attention to the world around them, they could have had some fun comparing the BOLE statements published on Above the Law on Friday with the ones from BOLE today. Let’s play “spot the horribly mismanaged press policy,” at the expense of NY BOLE….

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The UNOFFICIAL New York Bar Exam Results Accidentally Posted on the Web Briefly Today.

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I cannot confirm ANYTHING that you are about to see. As a journalist, all I can tell you that two people confirm that this following names were cut and pasted from the New York Board of Law Examiners website earlier today when names were accidentally posted to the BOLE website. As we’ve mentioned in prior coverage, NY BOLE denies that they have posted the 2010 July bar results.

I can also say that these lists seem to be the same ones I saw when I clicked on the BOLE page before they were taken down. A friend of mine who was sitting for the bar appeared on the web, and appears in these lists.

So take this with some skepticism, but here’s what was posted earlier today. Click on the links below:

Page 2 = A – B
Page 3 = C – D
Page 4 = E – G
Page 5 = H- J
Page 6 = K – L
Page 7 = M – N
Page 8 = O – R
Page 9 = S
Page 10 = T – V
Page 11 = W – Z

NY Bar Exam Results Up Briefly on NY BOLE Website

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Okay, July New York Bar Exam takers, we don’t know much — but here’s what we know.

For about an hour, the results of the New York Bar Exam appeared on the official site of the New York Board of Law Examiners (NY BOLE). This was a surprise. Results aren’t expected to be released until next week.

And the results appeared legit to me…

UPDATE: We’ve got statements from the New York Board of Law Examiners now, and we have a screen grab…

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