Bloomberg Law
Feb. 1, 2021, 11:30 AM

Cheating Scandal Aside, New Remote Bar Looks a Lot Like Old One

Sam Skolnik
Sam Skolnik
Reporter
Jake Holland
Jake Holland
Reporter

America’s budding lawyers aren’t cheaters. They just need help taking online tests.

At least, that’s the opinion of bar exam authorities in the biggest states and the company that created the remote proctoring software used during the first-ever online bar exams of the pandemic era. Despite thousands of students being initially flagged for possible cheating and then exonerated, bar authorities in California and New York say they don’t plan any major fixes this go around.

“In many ways, we’ve kind of been at the mercy of how the technology is developing,” said Aaron Taylor, executive director of the AccessLex Center ...

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