Downtown bars host World Cup Jul 13, 2010
News Posted on July 12, 2010 4:57 AM. By Zach Geiger Collegian Staff Writer. (Daily Collegian, PA)
Walter McLaughlin Jr.; helped others prepare for the bar Jun 27, 2010
Walter H. McLaughlin Jr. s high score on the Massachusetts Bar Examination in 1960 didn t just open the door for him to begin practicing law. The Harvard Law School graduate s performance caught the attention of Boston College Law School professors Jim Smith and Fred Hart, who recruited him to join them in forming Smith McLaughlin Hart Bar Review, a company focused on prepping law graduates for the intimidating test, passage of which is required in the state in which a prospective attorney hopes... (Boston Globe)
Ill. to get nearly 700 new licensed attorneys May 6, 2010
All of the 691 new attorneys have passed the Illinois state bar examination, an ethics examination and have been certified by the committee on character and fitness. The Illinois bar exam is offered on the last consecutive Tuesday and Wednesday in February and July. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
BAR/BRI Plaintiffs Firms Take Fee Request Back to the 9th Circuit Mar 24, 2010
The settlement involved 300,000 class members who claimed to have paid, on average, about $1,000 in overcharges for BAR/BRI's bar examination review course on the ground that its parent company, West Publishing Corp., conspired to monopolize the market in a secret deal with Kaplan Inc., which sells preparatory courses for the Law School Aptitude Test. The appeals challenge Real's Feb. 3 finding that McGuireWoods violated the California Rules of Professional Conduct by failing to inform class... (Law.com)
Former White House Counsel Craig Debriefs on Sotomayor Nomination Mar 4, 2010
On his decision to go to law school: "I thought that by going to law school I could maximize my job opportunities thereafter, and I could be a law professor or a historian or a government official or even maybe a community organizer. But I discovered, to my surprise, that law school prepares you for only one thing, and it's not for taking the bar examination. Law school prepares you to be ready to take the bar review course, and then you take the bar exam.". On what he learned as a federal... (Law.com)
Action Against N.Y. Office Rule for Out-of-State Attorneys to Proceed Feb 11, 2010
A 2005 graduate of the Rutgers University School of Law, Schoenefeld has passed the bar examination and is licensed to practice in New Jersey, New York and California. Her practice focuses on business law, trademark, copyright and appeals. (Law.com)
Tampa the site of Florida Bar exam in 2010 Feb 9, 2010
The Florida Bar examination also will held at the Tampa Convention Center July 27-28. The Florida Board of Bar Examiners is an administrative agency of the that handles bar admission. (Tampa Bay Business Journal, FL)
