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Cash-strapped California bar weighs cutting ties with NCBE, teaming with Kaplan on test-writing

Driven by money problems, the State Bar of California will decide this week if it will shift test-writing duties from the National Conference of Bar Examiners to Kaplan Test Prep for a Multistate Bar Exam replacement starting in February 2025.

May 15, 2024 5:00 PM CDT

Bar exam alternatives on docket of ABA Legal Ed council

With some states already moving toward alternative attorney licensing, the council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar will consider a draft policy statement urging jurisdictions to consider a host of methods to licensure when it meets Friday.

May 13, 2024 4:35 PM CDT

Viral video shows former Rikers Island inmate as she learns she passed bar exam on first try

A woman who served six months in prison at Rikers Island in New York as a teenager passed the bar exam on the first try, a moment captured in a viral video posted to TikTok.

May 9, 2024 1:55 PM CDT

Lowered bar pass cut scores mean better bar pass rates in 4 states

Of the five states that lowered the minimum score required for passing the bar last year, four of them had increases in their February 2024 bar passage rates, according to the latest data compiled by the National Conference of Bar Examiners.

May 7, 2024 10:23 AM CDT

Law schools examine pedagogy as NextGen bar exam looms

Updated: With the dawn of the NextGen bar exam approaching, some law schools are adjusting curricula to better prepare students for the test’s specific demands.

Apr 16, 2024 2:10 PM CDT

ABA proposal to accredit online law schools faces opposition from law deans

A proposal to accredit fully online law schools has met pushback from 26 law school deans, saying more information is needed regarding bar pass and employment rates of online law school graduates.

Apr 3, 2024 12:25 PM CDT

Number of February MBE test-takers has rebounded from pre-pandemic era, but how are national mean scores?

The number of aspiring attorneys taking the Multistate Bar Examination in February increased 1.4% over a year earlier as numbers inch past pre-pandemic levels.

Apr 2, 2024 12:02 PM CDT

This state is creating a way to skip the bar exam and making it easier to pass for those who take it

The Washington Supreme Court has adopted alternative pathways to a law license, becoming the second state to do so in a little more than four months.

Mar 18, 2024 10:58 AM CDT

New bar passage stats show several law schools below ABA cutoff

Western Michigan University’s Thomas M. Cooley Law School had the lowest two-year bar passage rate for 2021 graduates among ABA-accredited law schools, according to data released Monday by the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar.

Mar 11, 2024 5:45 PM CDT

Newer law school in Florida gets provisional accreditation from the ABA

A law school that opened in Jacksonville, Florida, in August 2022 has obtained provisional accreditation from the ABA, paving the way for its graduates to take the bar exam.

Mar 5, 2024 11:12 AM CST

Some taking California bar exam say Cow Palace venue was so cold it may have affected their test results

The State Bar of California’s decision to consolidate some bar exam locations at the Cow Palace in Daly City, California, didn’t work out well for test-takers who say the place was so cold Tuesday that it affected their ability to function.

Feb 29, 2024 10:02 AM CST

As ABA gathers more information on JD-Next, law schools still have to obtain variances to use test

Law schools that want to use the JD-Next exam in admissions will have to continue to seek a variance, the council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar determined at its Feb. 22 meeting.

Feb 26, 2024 11:43 AM CST

ABA law school accreditation not necessarily needed to take Indiana bar exam, top state court decides

The Indiana Supreme Court has broadened the pool of would-be lawyers eligible to take the bar exam.

Feb 21, 2024 9:10 AM CST

Revised bar exam won’t use software that caused tech problems for some test-takers

The revised NextGen bar exam rolling out in some states in July 2026 won’t be using the ExamSoft software that led to complaints of crashes, frozen screens and faulty facial recognition by some test-takers.

Feb 1, 2024 3:13 PM CST

Legal Ed council calls for comments regarding fully online law schools

Two proposals regarding the accreditation of fully online law schools were posted for comment by the council of the ABA’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar this week.

Jan 25, 2024 2:25 PM CST

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