Take steps to ease the character and fitness review process. If you are an applicant for admission to practice law in Washington, you should take steps to ease the character and fitness review process. The consequences if you fail to do so can be severe: from delay in admission to denial of permission to take […]
Read More…Taking the bar exam in February? Here are five tips to prepare for the MBE. The National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE) provides four online practice examinations (OPE) that can be purchased on the NCBE website. Each includes 100 questions that have appeared on a recent multistate bar exam (MBE), along with a detailed explanation […]
Read More…Dan Orphadt offers advice to the 727 candidates who passed the July bar exam: be proud and celebrate. We’ve all had about two weeks to digest that little word “pass” next to our UBE score. To some over-worriers, it may have come as a surprise — a surprise we double-checked on the public list on […]
Read More…A look at the new bar exam format and how six bar exam prep companies will prepare students. Disclaimer: The WSBA does not endorse any one bar exam preparation company over another, and this article is not meant to tout the features of one company as being superior. It is simply to give practicing lawyers, […]
Read More…Autumn is always a special time of year in the Admissions department at the WSBA. Around this time, we release results and the pass list from the summer bar exam, and open up applications for the winter exam. We get a barrage of questions about every step of the admissions process, from applying to sit for […]
Read More…Congratulations to the 575 new lawyers who passed the July 2012 bar exam! Ah, the bar exam. Three grueling days of testing, followed by three long months of anxious waiting. It is a rite of passage for lawyers; the culmination of years of hard work and dedication. Four years ago, after what seemed like an […]
Read More…The results of the July 2012 Bar Exam are in! 575 candidates passed the exam. Of the 878 candidates who took the exam, 65.5% passed. If you passed the bar exam, read up on the next steps that you need to complete before practicing in Washington State. Read the pass list.
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