Bar admission rules may crimp law firm moves into NoVa
Virginia is losing out as a location for Washington-based law firms because of its restrictive rules for lawyer bar admission, according to a business representative and officials in Arlington County....
View ArticleLaw schools jostle for bar-pass rankings
The University of Virginia law school again led the way in its Virginia bar pass rate for the July exam, but only by a slim margin. U.Va.’s overall bar pass rate was 89.8 percent, with William &...
View ArticleBar Exam passers become Virginia’s newest lawyers
Virginia welcomes 1,076 new lawyers after today’s admission ceremony. The number reflects those who successfully completed the July 2012 Virginia Bar Exam and met the licensing requirements needed to...
View ArticleJuly 2012 Virginia Bar Exam Results
Editor’s Note: Below are the names of the successful candidates who sat for the July 2012 Virginia bar examination. Of the 1,533 applicants who took the exam, 1,136 passed, for a pass rate of 74.1...
View ArticleNew rules could boost lawyer applications
State officials are bracing for a flood of new applications if the Supreme Court of Virginia approves relaxed standards for allowing out-of-state lawyers to practice in Virginia. Northern Virginia...
View ArticleWanted: A way to reverse problem with lawyers’ writing
As if bar candidates cramming legal knowledge didn’t have enough to worry about with the looming Virginia bar examination, word is out that bar examiners have been casting a critical eye on candidates’...
View ArticleFormer Soviet country studies Virginia bar exam
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...
View ArticleCourt eases restrictions on waived-in lawyers
After a three-year process marked by protests from waived-in lawyers and several proposed rule rewrites, the Supreme Court of Virginia has dropped most special practice requirements for lawyers...
View Article325 pass February bar exam
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...
View ArticleVirginia lowers a barrier for out-of-state lawyers
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...
View ArticleNew faces in place at VBBE
The Virginia Board of Bar Examiners begins the new year with a new, full-time administrative chief and a change on its board. Such personnel changes are rare at the agency that administers the Virginia...
View ArticleNumbers show decline in bar exam applicants
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...
View ArticleFewer sit for February bar exam
The numbers continue to drop for would-be Virginia lawyers taking the February bar exam. The two-day February exam — a small-scale alternative to the more heavily attended bar examination in July — has...
View ArticlePanel adjusts mental health questions for bar applicants
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...
View ArticleLaw grad sues for extra time on bar exam
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...
View ArticleWanted: A way to reverse problem with lawyers’ writing
As if bar candidates cramming legal knowledge didn’t have enough to worry about with the looming Virginia bar examination, word is out that bar examiners have been casting a critical eye on candidates’...
View ArticleFormer Soviet country studies Virginia bar exam
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...
View ArticleCourt eases restrictions on waived-in lawyers
After a three-year process marked by protests from waived-in lawyers and several proposed rule rewrites, the Supreme Court of Virginia has dropped most special practice requirements for lawyers...
View Article325 pass February bar exam
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...
View ArticleVirginia lowers a barrier for out-of-state lawyers
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...
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