State bar examiners thought they had everything under control when they drew up their little “waivers.” Never mind that experts generally agree that these waivers are just gibberish — what matters is that it looks official. No one is really going to sue the state bar examiners for running a superspreader event!
Now a new group founded by some Georgetown Law grads aims to use the legal process to keep examiners honest.
Law Graduates for Sensible Bar Admission brings together law school graduates with claims related to the upcoming bar exam and interested in pursuing lawsuits on either a nationwide or state-by-state bases against state law examiners and the National Conference of Bar Examiners.
We are interested in pursuing any and all claims that bar applicants may have against these organizations and their respective directors and officers. We are especially interested in obtaining 1) declaratory judgment that bar examiners’ waivers of liability for in-person exams are void, 2) injunctive relief prohibiting the administration of unsafe and inequitable in-person exams, 3) injunctive relief prohibiting untested and inequitable online exams, 4) injunctive relief requiring states to institute emergency diploma privilege – as this is currently the only reasonable and humane path to legal licensure, and/or 5) obtaining any monetary damages possible
If you want to join the initiative they’d love to hear from you. Even more useful to the effort would be licensed attorneys interested in taking on these cases. They already have people lined up in 15 jurisdictions so the odds are pretty good that they’re going to need lawyers everywhere before too long.
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