The COVID Project
Context, not an orderThis record is guidance or an announcement kept for context. It is not counted among the orders in force.
The record
- Jurisdiction
- All U.S. jurisdictions; National Conference of Bar Examiners (inventory of State supreme court and board of bar examiners actions)
- Level
- Sector regulator
- Authority
- Inventory only
- Issued
- 2020-07-28 July 28, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03 to 2020-10 (read as 2020-07-28)
- End
- 2020-10-06 (remote exam) (read as 2020-10-06)
- In force
- July 28, 2020 to Oct. 6, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q4
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Gathering capEvents and venuesCourts and public officesOther
- Addressees
- bar applicants
- law schools
- law firms
- Functions reached
- HR admission of new lawyers delayed nationwide (July 2020 exam cancelled or moved in 50+ jurisdictions)
- GATH exam sittings (gatherings of hundreds to thousands) cancelled
- CS law firm associate start dates and supervised practice
- Character
- context
- Collection
- State trade licensing boards AGY-ST-TRADE-BOARDS
Operative words
Jurisdictions... Remotely Administered Exam... Diploma Privilege Option:... Utah... Washington... Oregon... Louisiana.... 2020 exam canceled: Delaware, Palau.... The Supreme Court of Texas issued an order on July 3 canceling the July exam and determining that the Texas Board of Law Examiners should instead administer the exam on September 9-10 as well as administer an online exam on October 5-6.... On July 22, the Louisiana Supreme Court issued a press release and order permitting certain qualified candidates to be admitted to practice without sitting for the bar exam in 2020.
Enforcement
Each court's order governs admission in its jurisdiction
Notes
Per the table: in-person July 28-29 exams proceeded in about 16 jurisdictions with distancing; 20 jurisdictions administered the remote Oct. 5-6 exam; diploma privilege in UT, WA, OR, LA; DE cancelled 2020 entirely.
Retrieval noteSecondary for every court order it describes; primary orders saved for UT, WA, TX, HI, MT, DC (Ex. 019, 020, 040-041, 059-060, 071, 074-075). the instrument with legal effect is the Administrative Order, standing order or general order it describes (for the Tax Court, the Administrative Orders of 2020-2021; for the Supreme Court, the Court's announcements and orders list). Retrieve and cite the order; keep the release as context).