The bar exam is a gatekeeper. It is designed to test a person’s ability to see relevant facts, identify and analyze legal issues and apply legal standards to those facts. That is the practice of ...

Additionally, short-answer questions are included to test the practical application of legal ... Professional Responsibility will be added to the NextGen Bar Exam, reflecting its importance in legal ...

For decades, there has been debate about whether the current bar exam – which relies heavily on memorization – actually measures competency for legal practice, says Marsha Griggs, associate ...

However, private state bar associations regulate the right to practice law in a few states ... and the Multistate Performance Test (MPT), an examination that tests analytical and problem-solving ...

The July 2024 test was the last to use the Multistate Bar Exam multiple choice section as California's bar transitions to a ...

UB law school graduates know how to rally, and results from July’s New York State Bar Exam confirm it: 87.41% of first-time UB Law test-takers passed the rigorous exam — an increase of 1.93% from July ...

Armenian Organized Crime figure Edgar Sargysan, who ran a bogus law firm on Rodeo Drive connected to a slew of politicians, ...

Kaplan offers bar exam test prep programs, which state bar officials have said make the company qualified to draft questions for the new bar exam. Kaplan has agreed to stop providing test prep in ...

Syracuse University College of Law to provide all its graduating students with free test prep for the bar exam through a new ...

Utah is forging ahead with a proposal to allow law graduates to become licensed without taking the bar exam, following the lead of a handful of other states that have adopted alternative licensing ...

The exam "disproportionately and unnecessarily blocks marginalized groups from entering the practice of law" and is "at best ...