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
light of the fact that 47 candidates for the July 2007 bar lost part or all of an essay answer owing to software malfunctions. Read the story here.
Mary Campbell Gallagher, J.D., Ph.D.
President, BarWrite®
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