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Carolina grads tops in bar exam performance

The N.C. Board of Law Examiners has released its statistical breakdown of how graduates of the state’s seven law schools fared on the July 2010 exam. The University of North Carolina (my alma mater) came out on top with more than 90 percent of its alums making the grade – besting rival Duke University by [...]

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Bar exam posts an attrition rate of two

Whew. They’re done. The summer 2010 bar exam is over, and the numbers are in: This year 1,048 law school graduates took the exam, down from last year’s 1,136. Whoops. Let me make a slight correction on this year’s number: On July 27, the first day of the two-day session, 1,048 took the test. The [...]

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Herd of bar examinees hits the fairgrounds for ‘judging’

By 7 a.m. Tuesday, the sun was already beginning to beat down as the parking lots filled up at the fairgrounds in Raleigh. No one wanted to be late. No one wanted to miss out because they couldn’t get a parking spot. It was bar exam time. Chris Mickler of Pickens, S.C., was one of [...]

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