By Cheryl Miller | August 10, 2020
An administrative order accompanying the letter to the bar reiterates the court's decision to hold an online bar exam on Oct. 5 and 6 and to permanently lower the cut score to 139 starting with that test.
By Vanessa Blum | Zack Needles | July 24, 2020
From cancelled bar exams to deferred start dates, new and aspiring attorneys are being forced to regroup amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
By Cheryl Miller | July 24, 2020
Nineteen deans submitted a letter to the high court Thursday night asking that the "cut" score of 139, lowered by the Supreme Court from 144 last week, extend to graduates who sat for the February 2020 exam.
By Cheryl Miller | July 20, 2020
"We know that the lagging growth of diversity in the legal profession limits progress to eradicate inequities in the justice system," the bar's interim executive director, Donna Hershkowitz, said in a statement.
By Tony Mauro | July 13, 2020
More than 2,000 men and women have served as U.S. Supreme Court law clerks since Justice Horace Gray hired the first one in 1882. Within that group, there's "an ever more exclusive club," as one scholar put it: the handful of former law clerks whose children have gone on to clerk at the court.
By Cheryl Miller | July 2, 2020
The deans said the justices gave no indication of which exam option they may favor. State Bar officials, however, appeared early in the meeting to be leaning in favor of an online exam in October, they said.
By Cheryl Miller | July 1, 2020
"The information we learn from you will be provided to members of the court for their consideration in making a final decision," the message said. "No decision will be made at the meeting itself."
By Cheryl Miller | June 19, 2020
"These data make clear that the California bar exam, like similar standardized tests, has a racially discriminatory impact on all people of color, but particularly on Black test takers," the lawmakers' letter said.
By Peter Darling | June 16, 2020
Conversation is one of the most basic, seemingly easy human activities. It's easy to do, but not always easy to do well. If you can get better at it, the rewards are essentially unlimited.
By Cheryl Miller | June 12, 2020
The schools' pass rates were released as the state bar scrambles to figure out how to administer the fall bar exam.
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