Bar Exams, Biglaw

Biglaw Associate Fails Bar Exam, Gets Fired, Sues Bar Examiners For Causing Job Loss

If the bar examiners hadn't denied her testing accommodations, perhaps she'd still have a job.

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Once you are in a big, white-shoe law firm and you’re forced to leave, you are out of sync. The likelihood of getting another job at a big firm is slim to none. This has really derailed her career.

— Jo Anne Simon, attorney for Tamara Wyche, commenting on the trials and tribulations her client has suffered ever since being forced out of Ropes & Gray after twice failing the New York bar exam. Wyche, a graduate of Harvard Law, filed suit against the New York Board of Law Examiners in 2016, alleging it was the denial of testing accommodations that she received in law school that caused her to fail the bar exam and lose her job. She has worked in temporary attorney and contract positions since she was fired. Wyche recently found out that she may proceed with parts of her suit against the BOLE to allow for discovery into whether New York’s sovereign immunity bars her claims.

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