A ‘Historic Milestone In Legal Licensure’ That Nobody Got To Take: Washington scrapped its entire NextGen bar exam after six hours of dead wifi — while the NCBE insisted its platform worked fine.
The Show Me State Left Wanting: Missouri’s bar exam descended into chaos with late starts and haphazard attempts to salvage the mess. Remember when supporters of the NCBE exam got all smug about California’s problems? Karma!
The Luckiest Software Hiccup: Maryland’s hour-long software delay turned out to be one of the least severe tech failures of the NextGen bar exam rollout.
Washington’s Bar Exam Broke. Diploma Privilege Is Right There: Two law school deans want the state supreme court to admit this year’s grads without an exam — it’s been done before.
Don’t Be Mad: But we *knew* something like this was going to happen.
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