Bar Exam
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* If Senator Whitehouse thinks John Roberts will take action after Sam Alito straight up admitted to breaching ethics rules, then he doesn’t know John Roberts! [Law360]
* Oregon Supreme Court voting on whether to become the first state in the modern era to offer a full apprenticeship path to the bar. [Reuters]
* GPT-4 wins a lawyering contest featuring various AI options, but still isn’t as good as humans. Kinda supercharges why states might want to find licensing pathways that don’t involve an algorithm gaming a test, huh? [New Scientist]
* Nationwide says it is not on your side if you’re accused of aiding in an abduction. [Law.com]
* John Eastman has failed to get out of his disciplinary proceeding on Fifth Amendment grounds. That was the obvious outcome, but if John Eastman accepted the obvious dictates of the law he wouldn’t be in this mess in the first place. [Bloomberg Law News]
* An interview with super agent Leigh Steinberg. [ABA Journal]
* CiteRight and Jurisage to merge as Canadian legal tech providers eye expansion. [Law.com International]
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Elon Musk Is Having A Very Litigious Week
Between threatening Facebook and suing Wachtell, the Chief Twit is pretty active. We also talk about the end of the Supreme Court Term and the struggles in bar prep.
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Kim Kardashian Considered Wearing Diapers For The Bar Exam And We Need To Talk About It
This dilemma is all too real.
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Online Bar Exams Rely On Facial Recognition Tech And Guess What? It’s Still Racist!
It seems like someone in a position of authority might want to look into this.
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Two Days Before The Deadline, Bar Exam Declares Desktop Computers Forbidden
And it doesn’t look like New York is alone — it seems to be a last-minute ExamSoft change.
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MacBooks May Be Able To Cheat The Online Bar Exam
But even if they’re not, this highlights the lack of trust out there.
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ExamSoft Compensated Key Customers, Raising Specter Of Conflicted Law Schools, Bar Exams
Innovative marketing strategy, deceptive trade practice, or potential conflict? All of the above? Some of the above?
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Say What You Will About The Florida Bar Exam, But The Software Beats Apple At One Thing
Let’s celebrate the small victories!
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Florida Bar Exam Will Go Next Week… Maybe? Hopefully? Oh God.
Florida seems awfully confident despite remarkably little to back that up.
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Florida Cancels Test Of Online Bar Exam Because, You Know, ‘Issues’
This online bar exam is looking less and less likely.
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Testing Software Provider Drops Out Of Online Bar Exams Citing Feasibility
Handwriting is appearing on walls.
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ExamSoft Hoped To Scrub Web Of Article Suggesting It Was A Hacking Risk TWO MONTHS AGO
Maybe a little premature.
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Massachusetts Proves You Can Still Have A Portable Online Bar Exam Score
Have other folks considered just… asking for help?
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Online Bar Exam Software Still Not Working On Friday, Test On Tuesday
Online exams are a huge undertaking and maybe we weren’t ready for it.