D.C. Appeals Court to Offer Online Bar Exam in Early October

The District of Columbia’s next bar exam will be a pared-down, online-only test administered October 5 and 6, because both Covid-19 and the “overwhelming demand for seats” made an in-person test increasingly untenable.

This is D.C.'s second bar exam delay. The test had initially been scheduled for late July but then was moved to September for public health reasons.

The lingering and deadly coronavirus has forced states across the country to reconsider their bar exam options. This includes determining when exams will take place, whether they’ll be offered online for the first time, and even, in some states, like in ...