{"id":81931,"date":"2022-07-20T10:24:14","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T14:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=81931"},"modified":"2022-07-20T10:24:14","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T14:24:14","slug":"states-look-beyond-bar-exam-to-license-lawyers-perlinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2022\/07\/20\/states-look-beyond-bar-exam-to-license-lawyers-perlinger\/","title":{"rendered":"States Look Beyond Bar Exam to License Lawyers [Perlinger]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iaals.du.edu\/blog\/states-look-beyond-bar-exam-license-lawyers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>States Look Beyond Bar Exam to License Lawyers<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from iaals.du.edu by Jonna\u00a0Perlinger<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The bar exam has been under growing scrutiny, due to the undue financial burden it places on law graduates as well as its long history of disparate racial outcomes. In addition, minimum competence\u2014the very thing the exam purports to assess\u2014has historically lacked a comprehensive, evidence-based definition,\u00a0prompting some to say\u00a0that it\u2019s \u201cineffective in gauging the knowledge and skills new lawyers need to be successful.\u201d IAALS\u2019\u00a0Building a Better Bar\u00a0project provided the first empirically grounded definition of minimum competence and offered recommendations for how \u00a0our process for licensing lawyers must change to better serve the public; our findings indicate that many aspects of the current bar exam, including multiple-choice questions, time constraints, and being closed-book, fail to align with what we know about how to best assess minimum competence to practice law.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Fortunately, however, a growing number of states are now exploring the permanent implementation of alternative licensure approaches that would allow law school graduates to obtain their license through nontraditional avenues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>States Look Beyond Bar Exam to License Lawyers &#8212; from iaals.du.edu by Jonna\u00a0Perlinger Excerpt: The bar exam has been under growing scrutiny, due to the undue financial burden it places on law graduates as well as its long history of disparate racial outcomes. In addition, minimum competence\u2014the very thing the exam purports to assess\u2014has historically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,174,86,825,285,855,321],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assessment","category-career-development","category-change","category-law-schools","category-legislation-legislatures","category-skills","category-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81932,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81931\/revisions\/81932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}