ALBANY – Law school graduates will be allowed to count more credit hours from clinics, field placement courses and externships toward establishing their eligibility to take the New York bar exam under new curriculum requirements issued by the state Court of Appeals on Jan. 12.
The new rules, the first modications to the Court’s eligibility requirements since 1998, are intended “to reflect the realities of current legal education, provide greater flexibility to students in scheduling classes and promote clinical education to better prepare law school graduates for the practice of law,” the State Board of Law Examiners said in a statement.
