{"id":158843,"date":"2026-07-29T15:45:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T23:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/29\/the-bar-exam-that-went-so-horribly-wrong-the-whole-thing-got-canceled-see-also\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T15:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T23:45:12","slug":"the-bar-exam-that-went-so-horribly-wrong-the-whole-thing-got-canceled-see-also","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/29\/the-bar-exam-that-went-so-horribly-wrong-the-whole-thing-got-canceled-see-also\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bar Exam That Went So Horribly Wrong The Whole Thing Got Canceled \u2014 See Also"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The NCBE Called It A \u2018Historic Milestone.\u2019 Washington Canceled It.<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/07\/washington-just-called-off-its-entire-bar-exam\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The state pulled the plug on the entire exam rather than trust the tech again.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What About Diploma Privilege?<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/07\/theres-an-obvious-fix-for-washingtons-bar-exam-debacle\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The question answers itself after Washington torched an entire bar exam \u2014 and it\u2019s the same fix the state has used in the past. <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Hubris Of The Gods<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/07\/the-california-bar-exam-was-a-disaster-ncbe-and-missouri-hold-my-beer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The NCBE\u2019s supporters mercilessly attacked California for trying its own exam. What happened with the NCBE exam in Missouri brings us full circle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A Mini Disaster<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/07\/maryland-thought-it-had-a-bar-exam-disaster-then-other-states-happened\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maryland bar examinees only had to freak out for an hour. Not so bad, comparatively.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Park Bench Smooch Turns Costly<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/07\/gibson-dunn-snags-wachtell-partners-but-one-planned-lateral-got-literally-figuratively-benched\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apparently the partner in the infamous viral video was about to bolt for a payday at Gibson Dunn, but he got left behind<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sullivan &amp; Cromwell\u2019s Civil War Just Got A Signature On It: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/07\/scs-bob-giuffra-put-his-name-on-the-trump-scotus-petition-he-was-going-to-stay-away-from\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bob Giuffra\u2019s name is on the Supreme Court petition in the one case he told partners the firm would not touch.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/07\/the-bar-exam-that-went-so-horribly-wrong-the-whole-thing-got-canceled-see-also\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Bar Exam That Went So Horribly Wrong The Whole Thing Got Canceled \u2014 See Also<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The NCBE Called It A \u2018Historic Milestone.\u2019 Washington Canceled It.<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/07\/washington-just-called-off-its-entire-bar-exam\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The state pulled the plug on the entire exam rather than trust the tech again.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What About Diploma Privilege?<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/07\/theres-an-obvious-fix-for-washingtons-bar-exam-debacle\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The question answers itself after Washington torched an entire bar exam \u2014 and it\u2019s the same fix the state has used in the past. <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Hubris Of The Gods<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/07\/the-california-bar-exam-was-a-disaster-ncbe-and-missouri-hold-my-beer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The NCBE\u2019s supporters mercilessly attacked California for trying its own exam. What happened with the NCBE exam in Missouri brings us full circle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A Mini Disaster<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/07\/maryland-thought-it-had-a-bar-exam-disaster-then-other-states-happened\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maryland bar examinees only had to freak out for an hour. Not so bad, comparatively.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Park Bench Smooch Turns Costly<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/07\/gibson-dunn-snags-wachtell-partners-but-one-planned-lateral-got-literally-figuratively-benched\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apparently the partner in the infamous viral video was about to bolt for a payday at Gibson Dunn, but he got left behind<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sullivan &amp; Cromwell\u2019s Civil War Just Got A Signature On It: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/07\/scs-bob-giuffra-put-his-name-on-the-trump-scotus-petition-he-was-going-to-stay-away-from\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bob Giuffra\u2019s name is on the Supreme Court petition in the one case he told partners the firm would not touch.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/07\/the-bar-exam-that-went-so-horribly-wrong-the-whole-thing-got-canceled-see-also\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Bar Exam That Went So Horribly Wrong The Whole Thing Got Canceled \u2014 See Also<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NCBE Called It A \u2018Historic Milestone.\u2019 Washington Canceled It. The state pulled the plug on the entire exam rather than trust the tech again. What About Diploma Privilege? The question answers itself after Washington torched an entire bar exam \u2014 and it\u2019s the same fix the state has used in the past. The Hubris [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":158844,"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-158843","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\/Thumbs-Down-6DQwO6.jpg?fit=724%2C483&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158843","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=158843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}