{"id":25390,"date":"2022-10-19T12:12:05","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T16:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/?p=905299"},"modified":"2022-10-19T12:12:05","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T16:12:05","slug":"bar-exam-cheating-tale-almost-too-stupid-to-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/legal-innovation-center\/2022\/10\/19\/bar-exam-cheating-tale-almost-too-stupid-to-believe\/","title":{"rendered":"Bar Exam Cheating Tale Almost Too Stupid To Believe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-543071\" src=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/04\/bar-exam-scantron-multiple-choice-GettyImages-464016171-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"bar exam scantron multiple choice\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>An anonymous Illinois bar applicant took to Reddit <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2022\/10\/step-1-cheat-on-the-bar-exam-step-2-announce-on-reddit-that-you-cheated-on-the-bar-exam\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to confess to cheating on the exam<\/a>. Perhaps &#8220;anonymous&#8221; should be placed in quotes because the author proceeded to provide a ton of identifying details triggering a bar examiner investigation. Also, new data suggests <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2022\/10\/lawyers-should-raise-their-rates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lawyers should raise rates<\/a>, but is that really true? And merger mania is <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2022\/10\/worlds-biggest-law-firm-gobbles-up-indian-firm-gets-even-bigger-in-historic-move\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">back in Biglaw<\/a> with two <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2022\/10\/top-50-biglaw-firm-to-merge-with-prominent-litigation-boutique\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">top-tier mergers<\/a>. All that and a brief aside about Liechtenstein admiralty law.<\/p>\n<iframe border=\"0\" class=\"shortcode_iframe\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" allowtransparency=\"true\" scrolling=\"auto\" src=\"https:\/\/legaltalknetwork.com\/podcasts\/thinking-like-a-lawyer\/2022\/10\/bar-exam-cheating-tale-almost-too-stupid-to-believe\/?embed\" width=\"100%\"height=\"115\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"summary\">Also lawyers don&#8217;t make enough money&#8230; maybe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":543071,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3176],"tags":[409,102,171,459,7,7262],"class_list":["post-25390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcasts","tag-bar-exams","tag-biglaw","tag-law-schools","tag-podcasts","tag-technology","tag-thinking-like-a-lawyer-podcast"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.3 - 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