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6 ¦ JULY 27, 2020 NEWS

Connecticut Reschedules Bar Exam Again—
Now Online Only

By Robert Storace, Michael Marciano

The University of Connecticut School of Law in Hartford. Photo: Peter Morenus/UConn

Following a four-hour Zoom meeting Thursday, school graduates has asked the Rules Committee of
the Connecticut Bar Examining Committee an- the Superior Court to grant “diploma privilege,” and
nounced it would once again reschedule the 2020 do away with the upcoming bar exam.
bar exam. Diploma privileges, which have been adopted in
The committee announced during the meeting, Utah, Oregon, Washington and Louisiana, allow for
with about 85 people attending, that the bar ex- law school graduates to be licensed without having
amination slated for Sept. 30 and Oct. 1 in Hartford to take the exam, and are a response to COVID-19
would be pushed back to an online-only format on health concerns.
Oct. 5-6. University of Connecticut School of Law 2020
The controversial move followed similar decisions graduate Wyatt Bosworth, one of five organizers of
in other states, including New Jersey, Pennsylvania, a petition for the diploma privilege, told the Con-
Maryland and Massachusetts, which have decided necticut Law Tribune that CBEC did not adequately
to hold exams on the same two days. notice the meeting. He said the meeting was post-
Thursday’s attendees complained that the meet- ed on the CBEC website, but not on its homepage,
ing wasn’t properly posted, and that the decision which would have been easier to locate. He added
was made without their input. A group of recent law that graduates were never notified via email. Some

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