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Should Bar Exams Test Legal Research Skills?

By Carolyn Elefant

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Should the bar exam test prospective lawyers on their legal research skills? Joe Hodnicki considers the question over at the Law Librarian Blog. He writes that several prominent law school librarians have advocated for inclusion of a legal research component on the bar exam for a long time. But their proposal has been met with pushback from the National Conference of Bar Examiners, which doesn't believe that legal research lends itself to a bar exam format. Hodnicki disagrees, explaining that most skilled legal research instructors would be capable of devising a test that could determine if "exam takers are thinking...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on June 10, 2009 (boomark / email).

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