The success rate for those taking the Virginia bar exam this summer was the highest since 2011, the Virginia Board of Bar Examiners reported. Of the 637 who sat for the bar exam in Roanoke in July, 479, or 75.20%, ...
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2018 was a tale of two bar exams. While February saw Virginia bar exam takers pass at the lowest rate since 2009, July test-takers passed at the highest rate since 2013. July’s results also show an increase in the state’s ...
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Read More »A recent law school graduate is suing to get extra time to complete the essay test of the Virginia Bar Exam. The 2016 University of Richmond law grad is asking U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson to order the Virginia ...
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Responding quickly to an inquiry from a Virginia lawyer, the Virginia Board of Bar Examiners has revised questions asked of bar applicants about mental health treatment and past conditions. The adjustments came just before the May 10 deadline for applications ...
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Read More »A total of 810 applicants passed the July 2015 Virginia bar examination, according to the Virginia Board of Bar Examiners. The overall pass rate was 71.05 percent, which is up from last year’s drop to 68 percent. There were 1,143 ...
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Read More »The 2015 Virginia bar exam is in the books. As this column noted last week, 1,143 lawyer wannabes took the exam in Roanoke the week of July 27. Here is one of the essay questions from the actual exam. How ...
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Read More »The latest figures from the Virginia Board of Bar Examiners show a 12 percent drop in the number of prospective attorneys taking the February bar exam. The VBBE released the names of Virginia’s newest attorneys earlier this month. Of the ...
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The Supreme Court of Virginia quietly has opened the door a bit wider for out-of-state attorneys seeking to practice in Virginia without taking the bar examination. In a rule change last month, the court now allows lawyers from states that ...
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Read More »Nearly 60 percent of applicants who sat for the February 2014 bar exam have passed, according to the Virginia Board of Bar Examiners. Of the 547 applicants, a total of 325 successfully completed the exam, for an overall pass rate ...
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ROANOKE — As more than 1,600 candidates sat down for the Virginia bar exam in Roanoke this summer, a group of observers from an Eastern European nation were closely watching the testing process. As the now-independent former Soviet republic of ...
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