The new deans of South Carolina’s two law schools say that the Uniform Bar Exam the state administered on July 28 and 29 amid the COVID-19 pandemic went about as well as could be hoped for considering all of the ...

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The South Carolina Supreme Court said this week that the space dedicated for the bar exam will be “expanded significantly” in Columbia when bar applicants take the test at the end of the month. In announcing COVID-19 mitigation measures, the ...

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  South Carolina’s bar exam administrators had a lot of good news to announce when they published the results of this year’s July exam. More than 300 applicants passed this year’s exam, the highest number since 2015, and pass rates ...

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  2018 was a tale of two bar exams. While February saw South Carolina test-takers pass at an alarmingly low rate, July’s test-takers rebounded to pass at the much more respectable rate of 63.91 percent. Of the 399 test takers ...

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The University of South Carolina and Charleston law schools combined for a 37.3 percent pass rate on the most recent bar exam, each continuing its recent February slide. Forty-three USC grads sat for the exam; 18 passed. The 41.86 percent ...

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After a frightful February showing on South Carolina’s first administration of the Uniform Bar Exam, most University of South Carolina graduates who sat for July’s edition received a little good news heading into the month of Thanksgiving. USC had been ...

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Fans of “Southern Charm” reality TV star Craig Conover, a Charleston School of Law grad, can finally relax — he passed the bar exam. Conover, who mingles among a cast of popped-collar slick-haired Charleston socialites on the Bravo show, was ...

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The one thing every attorney has in common is that each has his or her own personal version of a bar exam horror story. Talk to a lawyer long enough, and you’re likely to hear tales of crowded auditoriums, incessant ...

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Each morning when attorney Nick Luft walks through the doors of the downtown Pittsburgh law firm where he works, he is thankful. Because of his hair, no one notices the inches-long L-shaped scar left behind after neurosurgeons opened up his ...

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Law students taking the bar exam have it tough: Three years hitting the books. Hundreds of thousands of dollars in tuition. And all of it, potentially wasted with a few failed attempts at the dreaded state-administered test.

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