TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Apr 10, 2020

The American Bar Association’s Board of Governors this week approved a resolution urging states to adopt emergency rules authorizing limited practice with lawyer supervision for recent law school graduates if the pandemic causes cancellations of July bar exams. The model practice rule would apply to 2019 and 2020 graduates of ABA-accredited law schools who have not yet taken the bar exam and would require them to take the exam by the end of 2021, the ABA Journal reports. Anticipating additional actions on the issue, the ABA also formed a working group to monitor developments. In a separate article, the ABA Journal looks at the “mixed” reviews the proposal is getting from the legal community, while a story from the Associated Press covers how 3Ls are dealing with the situation.