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.”

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