Washington Bar Exam canceled after tech failure, 700 aspiring lawyers in limbo, calls for class-action lawsuit and diploma privilege

YAKIMA — Hundreds of aspiring lawyers who traveled to the Yakima Convention & Event Center for Washington’s first NextGen Uniform Bar Exam instead spent hours battling failed connections, only to learn the entire July administration had been canceled, leaving careers, finances and carefully laid plans in limbo. The National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE), which […]