PRINTER'S NO. 1998
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE RESOLUTION
No.
367
Session of
2020
INTRODUCED BY FARNESE, TARTAGLIONE, PHILLIPS-HILL, MUTH AND
SCAVELLO, SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
REFERRED TO JUDICIARY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
A RESOLUTION
Encouraging the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and the Board of
Law Examiners to extend the right to practice law in this
Commonwealth to the entirety of the graduating class of 2019-
2020 if the graduate otherwise meets all criteria for fitness
to practice law.
WHEREAS, The graduates of Pennsylvania law schools' class of
2019-2020 have faced an unprecedented challenge in the COVID-19
pandemic; and
WHEREAS, The bar examination, which is currently required of
all attorneys, has been postponed twice as a result of the
pandemic; and
WHEREAS, The bar examination is now scheduled for October but
may be postponed again; and
WHEREAS, The bar examination is being offered exclusively
online, with more rules, unproven software, on an extremely
abbreviated timeline and with fewer questions yet being scored
the same as in prior years; and
WHEREAS, Students have already faced nearly a year's delay
and an interrupted study schedule; and
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