The bar exam is stressful enough before throwing in a natural disaster. Yet that’s the reality in Hawai’i, where examinees were evacuated from the test in light of a tsunami risk.
An 8.7 magnitude earthquake off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula — words that made everyone who has ever played Risk audibly proclaim “hey, I actually know where that is” — triggered tsunami warnings across the Pacific. Officials in Hawai’i took the rational step of evacuating vulnerable areas, including the state’s July bar exam site.
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With the most dangerous window coming to a close, Hawai’i has lifted its evacuation orders and the state prepares to return to normal operation today. No word on when the window closes on bar examiners stressing that the safety of examinees is the top priority before they can return to complaining that whiny law grads inconvenienced THE MOST IMPORTANT EXAM EVER™ over a mere “potentially devastating natural disaster.”
We really shouldn’t sleep on the insane callousness of the COVID-era bar examiners. The legal industry allowed those days to fade from memory a bit, but while a deadly global pandemic rolled through the country, the bar examiners expressed open hostility to applicants concerned that packing into a conference hall with thousands of other people might end up, you know, killing them or someone they loved. The NCBE scoffed at the idea of delays, derided the concept of diploma privilege, and threatened critics. Some states made applicants sign waivers in case they died. Law Licensure Lord Farquaads across the nation declared loudly: “Some of you may die, but it’s a sacrifice I am willing to make.” So it’s encouraging to see common sense prevail over the Bar Exam Death Drive.
And at least the examinees have a practical understanding of force majeure.
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