SALT LAKE CITY — For generations of would-be Utah attorneys, a daunting and often costly obstacle has stood between law school graduation and actually practicing law in the Beehive State: the bar exam ...

According to new data released by College Board, Utah students rank fifth in the nation for success on Advanced Placement course exams. Utah’s public school class of 2021 took 39,500 AP exams during ...

(KUTV) — The Utah Supreme Court made an unprecedented decision this week by allowing graduating law students to skip the bar exam because of the coronavirus outbreak. The bar exam is only offered ...

Nov 5 (Reuters) - Utah is forging ahead with a proposal to allow law graduates to become licensed without taking the bar exam, following the lead of a handful of other states that have adopted ...

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The change would make the state the first to embrace an emergency diploma privilege due to COVID-19, and it could prompt other states to follow suit. Gordon Smith, dean of Brigham Young University J.

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Utah students can receive a high school diploma even if they fail to pass all portions of the state’s exit test, but those diplomas will specify that the students haven’t passed the exam. That ...