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Following angry reactions prompted by examination of the rules for “waived in” lawyers, the Supreme Court of Virginia is proposing to drop its full-time practice requirement. The change would affect lawyers who were licensed in other states and then admitted to the bar in Virginia by reciprocity, without taking the Virginia bar exam. Many of [...]

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The Virginia Board of Bar Examiners has released the names of the 1,136 applicants who passed the July 2012  bar exam. The list includes a section for exam-takers who passed but are not being licensed at this time due to outstanding requirements. Below are the July 2012 pass rates for all applicants and for law [...]

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The Virginia Board of Bar Examiners has released the names of the 294 applicants who passed the February 2012  exam. The list includes a section for exam-takers who passed but are not being licensed at this time due to outstanding requirements. Below are the February 2012 pass rates for all applicants and for law schools [...]

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“What part of no don’t you understand,” runs the refrain of a country-western song. That chorus may have echoed in Scott Street’s mind as he tried for the fourth time to explain to bar applicant Jonathan Bolls that he failed the Virginia bar examination in 2008. Bolls was in federal court earlier this month with [...]

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Security was tight and tension was in the air at the Roanoke Civic Center this week as 1,513 applicants sat for the Virginia Bar Exam. Scott Street, secretary-treasurer of the Virginia Board of Bar Examiners, said the number of test takers is down by only two from last year. Both a police officer and a [...]

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Almost all the states in the nation, including Virginia, are turning out more lawyers than they need, according to a new study. The New York Times reports that there were nearly twice as many lawyers who passed the bar than there were job openings, according to a nationwide study conducted by Economic Modeling Specialists Inc. [...]

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Liberty University’s law school moves to the head of the class with a 100 percent pass rate for the February Virginia bar exam. The five LU students who sat for the test all passed, reports the Virginia Board of Bar Examiners. Washington & Lee and George Mason law students also scored well in the February [...]

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The Virginia Board of Bar Examiners has posted the results for the July 2010 Bar Exam. Of the candidates who sat for the exam this past summer in Roanoke, 1,139 received a passing score, for a pass rate of 75.2%. The VBBE website also provides pass rates for each Virginia law school. Bar passers will [...]

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The National Law Journal has a very detailed article about the prospects for a national bar exam, noting that as many as 32 states are giving serious consideration to standardizing lawyer credentials nationwide. Noticeably absent from the article is Virginia. W. Scott Street III, secretary to the Virginia Board of Bar Examiners, says the board [...]

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As if law students didn’t obsess enough about law school and bar exams, BARBRI is making a game of them. The company, the largest provider of bar review courses, has put the BARBRI Challenge on the App Store for the iPhone and iPod touch. The free download at www.itunes.com/appstore/ provides a series of multiple-choice questions [...]

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