Seeking Wider Bar Exam Reciprocity for Successful Applicants of October 2020
Full reciprocity of the Uniform Bar Exam would be a small but important measure of relief for those who passed the exam in New Jersey despite the COVID-induced chaos.
July 20, 2022 at 10:00 AM
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Legal EducationThe bar exam is stressful enough without a global pandemic turning life upside-down. Unless you were one of the 1,407 applicants who sat for New Jersey's first-ever remotely administered bar exam in October 2020, it is easy to forget what a mess COVID-19 made of the most consequential test in an attorney's career. The 930 applicants who overcame this formidable challenge received a score with limited portability, by virtue of their lacking the foresight to wrap up law school before a world-historic public health crisis struck. With the July bar exam around the corner (July 26-27), the National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE) should retroactively grant successful October 2020 applicants wider reciprocity.
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