Law Grads Get the Green Light for the September NY Bar Exam

The application process for the September bar exam is now complete.  All candidates who successfully completed an application to sit for the bar exam will be assigned seats, explains the New York State Board of Law Examiners, provided their proof of eligibility is timely submitted and demonstrates compliance with the requirements of Court of Appeals. The deadline to submit such proof has been extended until July 15, 2020. 

This come as a great new for the thousands of graduates from schools outside New York who were left wondering about their exam prospects when the board announced in late April that it likely would not be able to accommodate everyone and would give priority to graduates of in-state schools.

The final plan for the Bar Exam has not been released yet. Many candidates wonder how the current situation would affect the tenure of the exam and it has occupied the mind of the Chief Judge DiFiore, who has repeatedly stated that every effort would be made to seat as many candidates as possible. 

But as the country sees a surge of new coronavirus cases, New York State announced that people coming in from eight other states seeing COVID-19 surges must quarantine for 14 days. (New Jersey and Connecticut adopted similar mandatory quarantines.)

The quarantine states are: Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Utah & Washington.