{"id":158800,"date":"2026-07-29T10:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T18:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/29\/bar-exam-disaster-all-the-details-from-around-the-country\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T10:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T18:40:12","slug":"bar-exam-disaster-all-the-details-from-around-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/29\/bar-exam-disaster-all-the-details-from-around-the-country\/","title":{"rendered":"BAR EXAM DISASTER! All The Details From Around The Country."},"content":{"rendered":"

A \u2018Historic Milestone In Legal Licensure\u2019 That Nobody Got To Take: <\/strong>Washington scrapped its entire NextGen bar exam after six hours of dead wifi \u2014 while the NCBE insisted its platform worked fin<\/a>e.<\/p>\n

The Show Me State Left Wanting<\/strong>: Missouri\u2019s bar exam descended into chaos with late starts and haphazard attempts to salvage the mess. Remember when supporters of the NCBE exam got all smug about California\u2019s problems? Karma!<\/a><\/p>\n

The Luckiest Software Hiccup<\/strong>: Maryland\u2019s hour-long software delay turned out to be one of the least severe tech failures of the NextGen bar exam rollout.<\/a><\/p>\n

Washington\u2019s Bar Exam Broke. Diploma Privilege Is Right There:<\/strong> Two law school deans want the state supreme court to admit this year\u2019s grads without an exam \u2014 it\u2019s been done before.<\/a><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t Be Mad:<\/strong> But we *knew* something like this was going to happen.<\/a><\/p>\n

Did we miss any other stories from the July 2026 bar exam? If you survived or witnessed some horror story in action, let us know. You can\u00a0email it to us<\/a>\u00a0(subject line: \u201cBar Exam Horror Story\u201d) or text us (646-820-8477). Maybe your story will inspire others to persevere.<\/p>\n

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The post BAR EXAM DISASTER! All The Details From Around The Country.<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A \u2018Historic Milestone In Legal Licensure\u2019 That Nobody Got To Take: <\/strong>Washington scrapped its entire NextGen bar exam after six hours of dead wifi \u2014 while the NCBE insisted its platform worked fin<\/a>e.<\/p>\n

The Show Me State Left Wanting<\/strong>: Missouri\u2019s bar exam descended into chaos with late starts and haphazard attempts to salvage the mess. Remember when supporters of the NCBE exam got all smug about California\u2019s problems? Karma!<\/a><\/p>\n

The Luckiest Software Hiccup<\/strong>: Maryland\u2019s hour-long software delay turned out to be one of the least severe tech failures of the NextGen bar exam rollout.<\/a><\/p>\n

Washington\u2019s Bar Exam Broke. Diploma Privilege Is Right There:<\/strong> Two law school deans want the state supreme court to admit this year\u2019s grads without an exam \u2014 it\u2019s been done before.<\/a><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t Be Mad:<\/strong> But we *knew* something like this was going to happen.<\/a><\/p>\n

Did we miss any other stories from the July 2026 bar exam? If you survived or witnessed some horror story in action, let us know. You can\u00a0email it to us<\/a>\u00a0(subject line: \u201cBar Exam Horror Story\u201d) or text us (646-820-8477). Maybe your story will inspire others to persevere.<\/p>\n

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A \u2018Historic Milestone In Legal Licensure\u2019 That Nobody Got To Take: Washington scrapped its entire NextGen bar exam after six hours of dead wifi \u2014 while the NCBE insisted its platform worked fine. The Show Me State Left Wanting: Missouri\u2019s bar exam descended into chaos with late starts and haphazard attempts to salvage the mess. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":158758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/sad-lawyer-bar-exam-help-600x399-9FVjMo.jpg?fit=600%2C399&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}