With three young children at home and his legal education costs mounting, Adam West, a third-year student at Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, wasn’t looking forward to five unpaid months while he studied for the bar examination and awaited admission to practice after graduation. So when the Arizona Supreme Court approved a pilot program in late 2012 that allowed some students to take the February test one semester before they graduated, West was intrigued.
“My first reaction was, ‘That’s a cool idea.’ But I wasn’t ready to commit to it,” he said. “I didn’t want to add anything extra to my plate.”
