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The Oregon Bar pass rate increased to 75% for the February 2007 administration of the test. This is the highest pass rate since before 1999 (online records only go back to 1999).

In February, 2007 First Time Takers had an 83% pass rate; Repeaters had a 66% pass rate.

In February, 2006 First Time Takers had an 74% pass rate; Repeaters had a 58% pass rate, for an overall pass rate of 67%.

Looking back, the February 2005 overall pass rate was only 58%. The year before, in February 2004, the pass rate was 65%.

Congrats to the Oregon success stories.

Jonathan

An anonymous blogger is alleged to be the publisher of 41 questions taken from one of the two 2006 MBE administrations.

Attorneys for the NCBE have issued subpoenas to Google and Earthlink to uncover the identity of the blogger, who put the questions on the Internet within hours of the test.

Maybe PMBR should take note…given the NCBE judgment against them, they must be looking for ‘fresh meat’ for the red and blue books!

Read the story here.

If you’re one of the few attorneys…like me…that didn’t graduate from an ABA school, not to worry…you won’t be able to take the Georgia Bar Exam anytime soon.

Proposed legislation died in Georgia today that would have allowed attorneys from other states who graduated from unaccredited law schools to take the Georgia bar exam without first getting a waiver failed in the House.

Once more that test isn’t whether you have passed a state bar, it’s whether the bars were closed even before you attended the first day of school.

So sad.

Jonathan

Elite grads of the Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord, N.H. may get the privilege now afforded (at least for a while more) in Wisconsin: The Diploma Privilege.

While the Wisconsin’s Bar President is trying to eliminate the same privilege now afforded to that state’s two ABA school grads (see this story), New Hampshire is permitting the best of its best to enjoy entry into the profession with taking the Bar.

More: Click Here.

Jonathan

The State Bar of California’s one-stop page for Bar Exam information (FYLSX and General Bar) is AT THIS LINK.

Jonathan

Steven Levine, the president of the Wisconsin Bar wants to eliminate the “Diploma Privilege” that permits graduates of the state’s two ABA-acredited schools to immediately become lawyers upon graduation. Bar Exam? Not for those grads, unless Levine gets his way.

Read the story here.

Jonathan

California School of Law has a section discussion campus life. That’s interesting since the campus is a space in front of your computer. Get your own beer!

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ATTORNEY: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: Did you check for blood pressure?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: Did you check for breathing?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: How can you be so sure, Doctor?
WITNESS: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
ATTORNEY: But could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless?
WITNESS: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law.

ATTORNEY: Are you qualified to give a urine sample?
WITNESS: Huh?

Q. What do you call an attorney with a 60 IQ?
A. Your Honor.