bar exam


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Noun1.bar exam - an examination conducted at regular intervals to determine whether a candidate is qualified to practice law in a given jurisdictionbar exam - an examination conducted at regular intervals to determine whether a candidate is qualified to practice law in a given jurisdiction; "applicants may qualify to take the New York bar examination by graduating from an approved law school"; "he passed the bar exam on his third try"
exam, examination, test - a set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge; "when the test was stolen the professor had to make a new set of questions"
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Having gone through the process and having seen many of the exams and the examinees over the years, the problem that I see is not in the Bar exam itself but in the preparation or the lack of it, that precedes the exam.
Both the 2019 and 2020 Bar Exam Committee chairpersons have promised a 'very reasonable examination.'
twitter.com/kuB3knLgiA Supreme Court PIO (@SCPh_PIO) June 13, 2019 Ateneo Law School graduate Sean James Borja topped the 2018 Bar exam with 89.3060%.
Bar exam results are in, and for the first time in several years, the majority of candidates who sat for the North Carolina bar exam in February can start making plans to get sworn into the practice of law.
Nationwide, nearly 90% of 2016 law school graduates who sat for the bar exam within two years of graduation have passed, according to figures released by the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar.
July 2018 Michigan bar exam statistics show the number of passers is down from a year ago, with two law schools facing double-digit percentage drops.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court is proposing a rule change meant to improve the structure of the process thatbar applicants with disabilities go through to request special accommodations when they take the state's bar exam.
2018 was a tale of two bar exams. While February saw Virginia bar exam takers pass at the lowest rate since 2009, July test-takers passed at the highest rate since 2013.
Ambrose Nmah told journalists Wednesday, 13 June at the Temple of Justice that about 76 lawyers have applied for the Supreme Court Bar exam this year, but over 20 of the applicants have requested the Court for exemption from the exam.
Sixty-one people have begun studying at the Judicial Research and Training Institute (JRTI), where only those who passed the now-abolished state-administered bar exam undergo two years of training before becoming judges, prosecutors or lawyers, the organization said Friday.
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Suspended lawyers who must retake the bar exam before reinstatement should be required to do that before they file their reinstatement petition, according to the Bar's Disciplinary Procedure Committee.