Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 290: Q&A About Retaking the Bar Exam
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 477: The History and Future of the Bar Exam (w/Dean Jackie Gardina)
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 285: Reflections from a California Bar Exam Grader – Part 2 (w/Jennifer Barry)
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 284: Reflections from a California Bar Grader – Part 1 (w/Jennifer Barry)
Bar Exam Toolbox Episode Update 1: The "California Bar Exam Experiment"
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 279: Quick Tips -- Retaking the Bar Exam After Failing
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 277: California Is Outsourcing the Bar Exam to Kaplan?!?
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In partnership with the Minnesota State Bar Association – Civil Litigation Section, Winthrop recently hosted a lively and educational Roundtable event featuring a distinguished panel of nine members of the Hennepin County...more
Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! It's the season for bar results, and we've been talking with bar takers who didn't pass this time. Today, we've compiled a list of common questions we get about score reports,...more
Having recently set our clocks back at the end of this year’s Daylight Saving Time, we here at New York Commercial Division Practice wanted to alert our readers to an upcoming, decidedly forward-looking NY bar event....more
Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast! Today, we're thrilled to have with us Dean Jackie Gardina of The Colleges of Law in Santa Barbara and Ventura here to talk about the history, current state, and future changes...more
In response to compliance officer personal liability concerns and increasing SEC regulations, Commissioner Peirce proposed the creation of a compliance advisory committee, which would bring together SEC regulators and...more
Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! Today we're sharing Part 2 of our conversation with Jennifer Barry -- a tutor on the Bar Exam Toolbox team who's a former California bar exam grader. This time, we're focusing on...more
I love the “Lawyers Behaving Badly” podcast. The show’s premise is the hosts’ love of professional messes. They excel at finding true stories about dumb lawyers. Each episode has me shaking my head, thinking to myself, “How...more
Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! Have you ever wondered what it's like to be a California bar exam grader? Today we have Jennifer Barry -- a member of the Bar Exam Toolbox team and a former California bar grader...more
Social media’s influence on American society carries major implications for the public’s perception of current events. With headlines reaching millions of consumers within minutes, public outrage over racially charged crimes,...more
Yesterday, I took note of a new law that requires active members of the California State Bar to disclose annually whether they have provided pro bono legal services and certain other information through the licensee’s My...more
Many lawyers today are wrestling with the question of whether they should inform clients that artificial intelligence technologies are being used on their case matters. Ethical advice from state bar regulators has been slowly...more
I am a lawyer at a well-known criminal defense firm. I often write articles in legal journals and am quoted as an expert in criminal law in various notable news publications. Recently, while moderating a CLE program about the...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a “sweep” targeting AI-related conduct this week. The cases provide insight into how the agency may approach AI-related issues going forward and illustrate differences among the...more
Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! Today we are sharing some updates that have recently come from the California Bar, as we're watching how the new bar exam will be launched in February 2025, in partnership with...more
Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! Today, we're discussing how to approach preparing to retake the bar after failing the first time, or even multiple times. We talk about some common reasons why people fail the bar...more
Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! Today, we’re talking about California's surprising recent decision to outsource the development of part of the next bar exam to Kaplan. In this episode, we discuss: >Recap of...more
As summer winds down, ComDiv practitioners no doubt will soon be gearing up for the upcoming fall and winter months. Time again to trade in your flip-flops for legal pads. The year-end push will soon be upon us....more
Following in the footsteps of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the state bars of California, Florida, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania, the American Bar Association has weighed in on attorneys' ethical use of...more
It was great to read MSBA Leads the Way in Advocating for Judicial and Attorney Security | Maryland State Bar Association (July 30, 2024), written by the MSBA President, Raphael J. Santini....more
This blog post is the third in a series on common ethical challenges that arise while preparing for and conducting depositions. Insurers and large corporate legal departments are sophisticated consumers of legal services, but...more
On July 1, 2024, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania joined twenty-three other states in adopting Uniform Commercial Code Article 12 and the accompanying amendments to the Pennsylvania Uniform Commercial Code....more
All lawyers understand that they have an ethical obligation to protect client confidential information from prying eyes, whether in a locked file cabinet, on a cloud storage device, or passing through the networks of...more
The New York State Bar Association Tax Section (the “NYSBA”) has asked the government to provide guidance on the procedure for filing a protective return in respect of withholding tax in response to YA Global Investments, LP...more
The number of bar associations that have issued AI ethics guidance continues to grow, with NJ being the most recent. In its May 2024 report (Report), the NJ Task Force on Artificial Intelligence and the Law made a number of...more
One interesting aspect of the New York State Bar Association’s recent review of the ethical and legal issues raised by artificial intelligence in the practice of law was its suggestion that now might not be the best time to...more