The most expensive iPhone app costs $999.99, but the high cost may not deter some would-be lawyers. The app, BarMax CA, is a prep course for the California bar exam, TechCrunch reports in a story reprinted by the Washington Post. “So what do you get for your $1,000 BarMax CA…
A blind graduate of UCLA law school plans to take the bar exam in February, and she hopes she will be able to use a computer program that reads the text aloud. The State Bar of California allows use of the computer assisted reader for its section of the exam,…
In the decades before attending law school became a prerequisite to practicing law, it was relatively common for states to grant “diploma privilege” to those who did graduate—requiring their bar exams only for those who did not.
Nine out of New York’s 15 law schools saw a decrease in bar passage rates for this July’s exam, contributing to a drop in the statewide pass rate to 88 percent from 90 percent in 2008. New York Law School and Hofstra University School of Law saw the biggest drops,…
Valarie Wallin, a graduate of an online law school, has passed the bar in California and Wisconsin. Now she wants the Minnesota Supreme Court to allow her to take the exam there. Wallin is joining with three other petitioners to ask for a change in Minnesota rules that allow only…
The debate for a uniform bar exam heats up as more jurisdictions consider the adoption of a single exam and scoring system that would be accepted from state to state. Missouri bar officials say they could offer the first national exam as early as 2010, USA Today reports. Jurisdictions also…
There’s a happy ending to the story of disabled law grad who sued when California bar examiners refused to process her application to take the test because she didn’t fill in a credit card number. Sara Granda, a graduate of the University of California at Davis School of Law, has…
You begin to suspect that Ross E. Mitchell is a different sort of professional when he mentions his patented JetLag watch, which gradually adjusts to the correct time during flight to lessen the jolt of changing time zones.
An expanded iPhone app from BARBRI allows bar review students who have upgraded to a mobile course to view all of the bar study lectures and access other study materials on their iPhone or iPod Touch. The app is free, but students have to log in with the BARBRI user…
A little over seven years ago, Tony Jorgensen was getting ready to take the Pennsylvania bar exam after earning his law degree from Temple University in Philadelphia. But on a sudden impulse he hustled home to his native Connecticut on the last possible day to apply to take the bar…
Law students studying for the bar exam can download a free app with sample questions for their iPhones. The “BARBRI Challenge” consists of a series of sample bar exam questions that must be answered in 15 minutes or less, according to a press release. Users can compete with others in…
The atmosphere may be tense inside a Columbus, Ohio, auditorium filled with 1,300 law graduates taking the bar exam, but the outside parking lot looks a lot more like a carnival. There, alumni from all but one of the state’s nine law schools have pitched tents where they offer sandwiches,…
Law grads taking the bar exam this week should stop worrying—but it wouldn’t hurt to appeal to a higher power, according to a blogger who has written five tips for test takers. Among the tips, posted at Kevin O’Keefe’s Real Lawyers Have Blogs: • Relax. “Don’t be one the nervous…
The California bar exam starts tomorrow, and the last word from officials was that Sara Granda wouldn’t be allowed to take it. The quadriplegic woman, who is indigent and receiving disability benefits, paid the more than $600 fee with a state-issued check, and hence the bar exam form she filed…
A federal court has revived a class action lawsuit over a unique Wisconsin attorney admission rule that admits newly minted graduates of state law schools to practice without requiring them to take the bar exam. Those who graduated from law schools in other states but wish to practice in Wisconsin…
