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California releases bar exam results, and like many jurisdictions sees increase in pass rates   Image from Shutterstock.com. Out of the 9,301 people who sat for California’s online bar exam in October, the pass rate was 60.7%, according to a Jan. 8 news release from the State Bar of California. Comparatively, the pre-pandemic in-person July 2019 California bar had 7,764 people complete it, and the pass rate was 50.1%. Because of COVID-19, California was one of 20 jurisdictions to replace the traditional in-person July bar exam with an October online test designed by the National Conference...

Afternoon Briefs: Riot review won’t exclude Trump; sanctions bid against election lawyers targets 'paranoia'   US attorney doesn’t rule out Trump charges Acting U.S. Attorney Michael Sherwin of Washington, D.C., on Thursday promised a criminal review of “all actors” in the assault on the U.S. Capitol. Asked if the review will include President Donald Trump and his statements to supporters before the riot, Sherwin replied, “We are looking at all actors here, and anyone that had a role, if the evidence fits the element of a crime, they’re going to be charged.” Trump had urged sup...

Second BigLaw partner on Trump's Georgia phone call leaves his law firm   Image from Shutterstock.com. Fox Rothschild partner Alex Kaufman has left his law firm after being present during President Donald Trump’s Jan. 2 phone call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. Fox Rothschild announced Thursday that Kaufman and his father, partner Robert Kaufman, had left the law firm as a result of “a mutual agreement,” report the Legal Intelligencer and Above the Law. During the phone call, Trump had asked Raffensperger to “find” the votes needed to make him win in Georgia. A s...

Will paper bar exams become a thing of the past?   Image from Shutterstock.com. While there’s significant disagreement on how the bar exam should change, many believe it will, and there’s a wide range of ideas about what should happen. So far, suggestions for change include breaking the test into smaller segments and administering part of it in law school; replacing essay questions with performance tests; and doing away with the licensing exam entirely. The question of how the bar exam could improve was discussed before the COVID-19 pandemic, but safety concerns around in-person testing ...

Ethics attorneys hopeful COVID-19 will prompt changes in remote working rules   Image from Shutterstock.com. The continued spread of COVID-19 has resulted in lawyers across the country working remotely for months on end, including in jurisdictions where they are not licensed to practice law. While this trend prioritizes public health and provides workers with increased flexibility, it could also raise ethical issues for some attorneys. That’s because many states have adopted rules of professional conduct making it the unauthorized practice of law for a duly licensed lawyer to practice remo...