A TRIAL in a California federal courtroom next year could mean thousands of Georgia lawyers will share with their counterparts around the country an estimated $300 million award for being charged inflated bar exam prep fees-less, of course, attorney fees and related expenses.
The suit for a class of about 300,000 lawyers claims West Publishing, the corporate owner of BAR/BRI, the national bar review program, colluded with Kaplan Inc., one of the country’s largest prep companies for the Legal Scholastic Aptitude Test LSAT, to scuttle a 1997 deal in which Kaplan would have entered the bar review business.
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