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More than 20 years ago, Marilyn Bartlett won her lawsuit to compel the New York State Board of Bar Examiners to accommodate her dyslexia by providing her extended testing time on the state bar examination. Although postsecondary institutions were already providing extended testing time for students with documented learning disabilities, high‐stakes testing agencies initially resisted comparable accommodations. Prodded by the threat of lawsuits — and in the case of the Law School Admission Council, a 2014 consent decree resolving a lawsuit brought by law school applicants, California, and the Department of Justice — admissions testing agencies reduced test accommodation barriers, but students and graduates with learning disabilities still faced obstacles to test accommodations from professional licensing bodies. A recent federal appeals court decision in Ramsay v. National Board of Medical Examiners reiterates that licensing bodies also must comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act by providing students and graduates appropriate extended time on multiple‐choice and written licensing exams. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article highlights three positive stories of individuals making a difference in their communities. The Beaubien Bell at the Basilica of Sainte Anne de Detroit, which had been silent for 25 years, is now ringing again after a $30 million restoration project. In McAlester, Oklahoma, an 11-year-old boy named Reed Marcum started a toy giveaway for families in need, which has grown to distribute over 54,000 toys with the help of volunteers. Additionally, a 17-year-old named Peter Park became the youngest person in California's history to pass the bar exam, after studying for it since the age of 13. These stories showcase the positive impact individuals can have on their communities. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses potential reforms to the State Bar of California in 2017 in the aftermath of various scandals, and it mentions the California Legislature's failure to pass a legislative bill to authorize the bar association to collect dues in 2017, as well as the possibility that the State Bar of California could be split into two entities. The U.S. Supreme Court and antitrust litigation in America are examined, along with potential lawsuits from people who failed the California bar exam.

According to a press release from the State Bar of California, the overall pass rate for the February 2020 bar exam was a mere 26.8 percent. Disaggregating the data further, the pass rate for first-time takers was 38 percent, but the pass rate for retakers was an astonishingly low 22 percent. The current results mark the second-lowest pass rate since the February 1982 exam and the second time since 1986 that the overall pass rate has fallen below 30 percent. [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on San Diego, California-based bar exam preparation company BarMD, founded by lawyer David G. Greco and law school instructor Maureen D. MacManus. According to Greco, he established the company to help address the significant disconnect between law students and bar preparation companies and law schools by offering personalized bar exam preparation. The difficulty of the California Bar Exam is noted, along with the cost of bar exam tutors.

The article offers information on the legal education in California. It says that California is the place of over 200 law schools in the U.S. in which law education is an increasing business. It also mentions that the education code in the state requires the law schools to have an asset of 50,000 dollars and should be a corporation. However, 32 law schools which have 4,350 students are operating their business without an accreditation from the American Bar Association wherein consultant John Gorfinkle reveals that 17 of those schools are working for profit. Moreover, graduates from the unaccredited law schools are not gaining because 60% of them fails the California bar exam and Van Norman University which welcomes anyone with two years in college had only seven bar passer since 1968.

The article reports that the examinees of California bar exam in February 1975 failed in the ethics section. Examiners are surprised as it is considered a simple test, as stated in the article. It also emphasizes that those who failed in the ethics section will have a retake, even though they passed the entire exam. Meanwhile, Minnesota just began their refresher course program, as mandated by the state bar's board of governors.

The article focuses on the support of the California Supreme Court on Terence Hallinan from becoming a practicing lawyer. The court reminds that the Committee of Bar Examiners that admission to the bar turns on whether an applicant has committed acts of moral turpitude. It emphasizes that bar examiners failed to see Hallinan's good moral character during his arrests for civil disobedience. It also refuses to believe civil disobedience sacrifices the right to enter a licensed profession.

The article profiles Laurel Edgeworth, a lawyer, who has launched Law Clerk Connection LLC (LCC), an online business. Edgeworth graduated from the University of the Pacific's McGeorge School of Law in California in December 2008. Within four months of graduating from law school, she passed the California bar exam and now practices at the law firm Timothy M. Cary & Associates in Cameron Park, California. Edgeworth believes LCC will make time more productive for her clients through its competitive bidding model and its secure platform for document transfer. LCC offers legal research tools and hosts discussion forums for students and attorneys. As mentioned, the long-term goal of Edgeworth is to develop a self-operating program so she can focus on her practice representing public agencies.

The article looks at a study conducted by "Emotion," a journal for the American Psychological Association, on the psychology of the law school graduates waiting for California bar exam results, and founds that the students are not worried about it.

Reports on developments concerning the practice of law in the United States as of June 1993. National Organization for Men's distribution of a 'consensual sex contract' on college campuses; Bar examination in California.

The article deals with the efforts of Mexican-born and U.S. immigrant Sergio Garcia to become a lawyer in California. Garcia went to the U.S. illegally in 1993 but the decision of the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama to overhaul the system has legalized his citizenship in the country. He studied to become a paralegal and passed the bar exam in the state on the first try.

The article reports that California law school graduates record lowest passing rate in the California's bar exams in precious years, which is one of the two toughest bar exams in the U.S. It discusses the related facts of passing bar exams which informs that the Southern California Institute of Law (SCIL),California, is at bottom among accredited California law schools. It presents various statements from George A. Shohet, an attorney in Venice, and Robert Anderson, an associate law professor.

In this article, the author focuses on his career development. He states that he completed his graduation from the California Northern School of Law and then he became California State bar analyst in the year 2009. He further states that he became licensed California attorney in the year 2010 because he was supported by the Committee of Bar Examiners.

The article offers information on the student support programs undertaken by the Whittier Law School in Los Angeles, California. In 2005, the law school faced a possible loss of the American Bar Association (ABA) accreditation because of a low bar-passage rate. So it undertook a revision of its student support programs and added a summer program to help better prepare graduates for the California bar examination. Whittier now offers a variety of substantive and legal writing support programs to help graduates get through the eight-week post-graduation runup to the examination.

Deals with the efforts of James Liontas, a law school dean in California, to abolish the baby bar examination system in the state. Purpose of the baby bar examination; Move of the California legislature to pass a resolution for the abolition of the system.

Profiles Benjamin Roll, who passed the California Bar exam at the age of 75. Reasons why he attended law school; Why it took him 20 years to complete school and pass the exam; Comments.

Reports on the protest of San Francisco paralegal Kathleen McCasey on a question in the California's bar examinations. Background on the question; Issues on the offending language used in the question.

Reports on the State Bar of California's consideration of the possibility of dropping the essay portion of the state bar exam. Reasons for the proposal; Components of the state bar exam; Fees for the restructured test.