Sixty-Five-Year-Old Man Takes Bar Exam A few weeks ago I wrote that I was concerned about having to write out the Multistate Performance Test (MPT), rather than being able to use my computer. Last week I gave that issue more thought. The letter to applicants I received, which addressed the use of computers on the […]
Sixty-Five-Year Old Man Takes Bar Exam
Sixty-Five-Year-Old Man Takes Bar Exam One of the defining hallmarks of a profession is that its members subscribe to norms of behavior, often set out as a code. For physicians in the U.S., the major such code is the American Medical Association’s Code of Ethics. Librarians have their own ethic codes, promulgated by the American […]
Sixty-Five-Year-Old Man Takes Bar Exam I spent a good deal of my time outside of work in early October reviewing North Carolina’s rules for becoming a lawyer, or “being admitted to the bar.” After all, I am not new to this rodeo. I attended law school immediately after graduating from college, and I had taken […]
Last week’s headline in Above The Law turned out to have somewhat exaggerated the lasting effects of an as-of-yet not fully explained technical glitch in software used in several states to adminster the bar exam. The software, a product called SoftTest, created and marketed by ExamSoft, is designed to let students type exam answers on […]