Sentences with phrase «bar examiners»
"Bar examiners" refers to individuals or a group of people who are responsible for designing, conducting, and assessing the bar exam, which is a test that aspiring lawyers must pass to become licensed to practice law in a specific jurisdiction. Full definition
He is a member of the Board of Bar Examiners of the Washington State Bar Association.
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Law related organizational searches the firm has conducted nationally include the President of The National Judicial College in Reno, Nevada, the President / CEO of the National Conference of Bar Examiners in Madison, Wisconsin, the Executive Director of the American Bar Association in Chicago, as well as the ABA's Managing Director of Accreditation and Legal Education, and the Executive Director of the Uniform Law Commission in Chicago.
Laurel S. Terry, Admitting Foreign - Trained Lawyers, National Conference of Bar Examiners Annual Bar Admissions Conference (Seattle, May 3, 2014)[Session Materials]
He foresees the American Bar Association and state bar examiners coming under pressure to reduce the cost of law school by relaxing rules.
Florida bar examiners will look for evidence of substance abuse in applicants with a history of those problems, and will of course check to see if you would like to overthrow the government.
I suppose it was only a matter of time, but the ABA Journal reports that the «Florida Board of Bar Examiners voted to review applicants» social networking sites on a case - by - case basis».
In the letter, Holt agreed with the Justice Department's decision to bar examiners from stating that a pair of fingerprints «originated from the same source to the absolute exclusion of all» others or expressing a level of certainty that is «absolute or numerically calculated» in an analysis comparing samples collected from crime scenes with those known by authorities to belong to identified sources.
To add insult to injury, the bar scores from July 2014 were the lowest in a decade and the president of the National Conference of Bar Examiners straight - up said that the July 2014 test - takers were «less able» than previous years.
The Board of Bar Examiners also considers how long the military spouse has been practicing law, prior employment and career goals.
The Wisconsin Law Journal reports that the state's Board of Bar Examiners approved 13,000 CLE programs last year.
«The Board of Bar Examiners handles admission; we don't,» she says.
Zeni, whose laptop crashed during the exam and appeared to have erased one of his essays, successfully appealed his failing score after learning about the review process from Eric Turkewitz at New York Personal Injury Lawyer, whose own exam results had been lost by the New York Bar examiners 22 years earlier.
Legal employers, law schools, and even bar examiners are using social networking sites to collect information about law students during hiring and admissions processes.
For instance, the Florida Board of Bar Examiners adopted a policy allowing the investigation of social networking websites on a case - by - case basis for certain bar applicants.
It is a situation, the blog reports, that the executive director of the Wisconsin Board of Bar Examiners plans to investigate.
The problem with this approach is that law schools and bar examiners don't grade based on race — nor should they.
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She has served on the WSBA Board of Bar Examiners since 2003 and was a trustee at the Spokane County Bar Association 2003 — 2005 and 2009 — 2011.
Laurel S. Terry, Admitting Foreign Lawyers, National Conference of Bar Examiners Annual Bar Admissions Conference (Chicago, May 2, 2015) See also Table of Contents of Materials, «Association» Map, and State Implementation of Foreign Lawyer Admission Rules
However, the California State Bar's Committee of Bar Examiners voted 13 - 1 to keep the current pass score claiming that more data is needed including some that are currently underway.
The problem with a casual legal question is that like state bar examiners, lay people believe lawyers know about all areas of the law.
The mediator - in - training must also pass a criminal background check and provide the state's board of bar examiners with character references before practicing professionally as a child custody mediator.
Sitting for the bar can be pricey — bar exam application fees alone range from about $ 200 to $ 1,450, depending on the state, according to the National Conference of Bar Examiners.
The law school's Tarlton Law Library convened the conference, Teaching the Teachers: Effective Instruction in Legal Research, largely in response to the National Conference of Bar Examiners» announcement last year that it would explore an add - on to the bar exam that would test legal - research skills.
The Universal Bar Exam is a new version of the bar exam being offered by the National Conference of Bar Examiners.
First place goes to the decision of the Florida Board of Bar Examiners to screen the Facebook and other social - networking pages of applicants to the bar.
Include this in your rule statement and you'll let the bar examiners know just how prepared you are.
The bar examiners are not a bunch of tricksters, chortling over the ways they can lay traps with the Rule in Shelley's Case.
Do not keep desperately trying to give the bar examiners every suggestion they might conceivably reward.
Judith A. Gundersen, director of test operations at the National Conference of Bar Examiners, has been tapped to serve as the organization's president and chief operating officer.
The Georgia Board of Bar Examiners may have violated the procedural due process rights of a lawyer licensed in Louisiana when it offered no explanation for its denial of her application for bar admission under a waiver program for military spouses, the ABA says in an amicus brief.
The Board of Bar Examiners and the Character and Fitness Committee oversee the process of admission to the Vermont bar.
An interesting job opportunity has been posted by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court: executive director of the Board of Bar Examiners.
The best route for a poor writer (and I'm sorry to have to say this, but an awful lot of lawyers struggle to even write passably — another abject failure of law schools and bar examiners, for passing these poor souls) is to take an introductory composition class that will give one the ability to parse sentences so as to know if they are grammatically correct.
Also check in with the Bar Examiners in your state for the most current rules and procedures and whether the Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam (MPRE) is required.
But their proposal has been met with pushback from the National Conference of Bar Examiners, which doesn't believe that legal research lends itself to a bar exam format.
Explain that one to the bar examiners.
In addition to the current search for the Executive Director of the World Justice Project (see Opportunities page), recent searches include the State Bar of Texas, the National Conference of Bar Examiners, the State Bar of Wisconsin, the New York State Bar Association, The Florida Bar, the Tennessee Bar Association, the National Judicial College, the North Carolina Advocates for Justice and the North Carolina Bar Association.
We also successfully challenged the policy of the National Council of Bar Examiners and state bars to refuse to allow blind prospective attorneys to use screen readers on the bar examination.