{"id":159556,"date":"2026-08-05T10:39:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T18:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/05\/will-we-never-learn-our-lesson-about-the-bar-exam-2\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T10:39:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T18:39:46","slug":"will-we-never-learn-our-lesson-about-the-bar-exam-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/05\/will-we-never-learn-our-lesson-about-the-bar-exam-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Will We Never Learn Our Lesson About The Bar Exam?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The profession yet again forced law school graduates to take a closed-book doctrinal memory test to earn the right to perform a job where answering questions from memory constitutes malpractice. And, yet again, the ritual came with a series of catastrophes and a fully canceled test. In Maryland<\/a>, the test faced delays. Missouri\u2019s delays were even worse, reminding us that the NCBE doesn\u2019t guarantee a better exam than the much-maligned California experiment<\/a>. And in Washington, they had to cancel the whole test<\/a>. In happier news, summer bonuses came to Biglaw \u2014 or at least some of Biglaw \u2014 with Milbank announcing a special treat<\/a>. Finally, Wachtell\u2019s kissgate scandal spilled over into Gibson Dunn\u2019s lateral hiring coup, and we\u2019re reminded that work-life balance is important<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The profession yet again forced law school graduates to take a closed-book doctrinal memory test to earn the right to perform a job where answering questions from memory constitutes malpractice. And, yet again, the ritual came with a series of catastrophes and a fully canceled test. In Maryland<\/a>, the test faced delays. Missouri\u2019s delays were even worse, reminding us that the NCBE doesn\u2019t guarantee a better exam than the much-maligned California experiment<\/a>. And in Washington, they had to cancel the whole test<\/a>. In happier news, summer bonuses came to Biglaw \u2014 or at least some of Biglaw \u2014 with Milbank announcing a special treat<\/a>. Finally, Wachtell\u2019s kissgate scandal spilled over into Gibson Dunn\u2019s lateral hiring coup, and we\u2019re reminded that work-life balance is important<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The profession yet again forced law school graduates to take a closed-book doctrinal memory test to earn the right to perform a job where answering questions from memory constitutes malpractice. And, yet again, the ritual came with a series of catastrophes and a fully canceled test. In Maryland, the test faced delays. Missouri\u2019s delays were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":159560,"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-159556","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\/08\/bar-exam-scantron-multiple-choice-GettyImages-464016171-620x413-se4VvY.jpg?fit=620%2C413&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159556","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=159556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}