N.Y. Law Deans Say 2020 Class Should Be Allowed to Skip Bar Exam

The heads of Columbia, NYU and other New York law schools are proposing that members of this year’s class should be allowed to skip the bar exam because of the coronavirus outbreak.

New York’s highest court on Tuesday delayed the July 2020 exam. A new date is to be set in September.

Deans of New York’s 15 law schools, in a letter to Chief Judge Janet DiFiore, said that delaying admission for the soon-to-be grads will cause “profound harm” and may hobble providers of legal services for the poor, which hire a high proportion of young lawyers.

“We are ...