{"id":158967,"date":"2026-07-30T15:11:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T23:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/30\/washington-bar-exam-chaos-leaves-future-legal-careers-in-limbo\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T15:11:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T23:11:14","slug":"washington-bar-exam-chaos-leaves-future-legal-careers-in-limbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/30\/washington-bar-exam-chaos-leaves-future-legal-careers-in-limbo\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Bar Exam Chaos Leaves Future Legal Careers In Limbo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Who knows when the September retake scores will release. A delay in licensing all the incoming public defense and other public interest attorneys will only serve to harm the citizens of Washington.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014<\/i><\/span> Tyson Weeks, a recent graduate from Notre Dame Law School, in comments given to Bloomberg Law<\/a>, concerning what he plans to do in the wake of Washington\u2019s canceling the administration of the July bar exam<\/a>. Weeks was supposed to begin work as a Washington public defender in October, the week after the July results were supposed to be released. Thanks to the July exam\u2019s cancelation, he\u2019ll remain in North Carolina, where he\u2019ll study and do construction work with his father.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a> is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Bluesky<\/a>, X\/Twitter<\/a>, and Threads<\/a>, or connect with her on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Washington Bar Exam Chaos Leaves Future Legal Careers In Limbo<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Who knows when the September retake scores will release. A delay in licensing all the incoming public defense and other public interest attorneys will only serve to harm the citizens of Washington.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014<\/i><\/span> Tyson Weeks, a recent graduate from Notre Dame Law School, in comments given to Bloomberg Law<\/a>, concerning what he plans to do in the wake of Washington\u2019s canceling the administration of the July bar exam<\/a>. Weeks was supposed to begin work as a Washington public defender in October, the week after the July results were supposed to be released. Thanks to the July exam\u2019s cancelation, he\u2019ll remain in North Carolina, where he\u2019ll study and do construction work with his father.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a> is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Bluesky<\/a>, X\/Twitter<\/a>, and Threads<\/a>, or connect with her on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Washington Bar Exam Chaos Leaves Future Legal Careers In Limbo<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day. Who knows when the September retake scores will release. A delay in licensing all the incoming public defense and other public interest attorneys will only serve to harm the citizens of Washington. \u2014 Tyson Weeks, a recent graduate from Notre Dame Law School, in comments […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":158968,"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-158967","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\/Staci-Zaretsky-bk6fhx.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158967","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=158967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}