BarWrite® Blog

Plagiarism Keeps Student Out of Bar

Plagiarism is the kind of misconduct that can keep a law student from ever getting admitted to the bar. Hat tip for

New BarWrite® Boot Camp for All States' Bar Exam Essays

BarWrite® and BarWrite Press president Dr. Mary Campbell Gallagher will teach bar candidates how to overcome common essay hurdles and boost their bar exam essay scores in an intensive live One-Day All-States

Justice Clarence Thomas Analyzes the Bar Examination

Jake Lybberty reports Justice Clarence Thomas's saying in My Grandfather's Son that "like every other black law student, I was uncomfortably aware that blacks failed to pass the bar exams at a much higher rate than whites . . . ." At first Justice Thomas assumed that racial discrimination must be to

West Virginia University College of Law

Chuck Newton has posted a nice pitch for West Virginia University College of Law, a reasonably-priced public law school in scenic Morgantown, West Virginia. I was struck by his saying, as something important about the law school, that it prepares graduates well for a difficult bar exam.

People who believe that we can dispense with the analytic bar examination

Massive New Study of Affirmative Action Under Way

Discriminations.us has reported that Professor Richard Sander of UCLA and collaborators are undertaking a

New York Bar Examiners Get New Software, Liability Waiver

According to a story from the New York Law Journal on today's Law.com, the New York Board of Law Examiners has chosen a new software provider for bar candidates who use a laptop to take the February 2008 bar exam. The BOLE will also require bar candidates to sign a waiver of liability. Neither move is surprising in