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bar exam

n. (form of Shortened form bar examination English), an examination that must be passed by persons who wish to practice law in the United States.

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bar exam

n. an examination conducted at regular intervals to determine whether a candidate is qualified to practice law in a given jurisdiction; "applicants may qualify to take the New York bar examination by graduating from an approved law school"; "he passed the bar exam on his third try" [syn: bar examination]

Usage examples of "bar exam".

For the first three months you'll do little but study for the bar exam.

And then when she graduates, and passes the bar exam, she'll know—.

Walter Hazlett took his bar exam and was invited to take it again at a later date.

You stand before the bench, you think, God, how did this ox ever pass the bar exam?

Bill Shaw, too, had passed the bar exam, though he devoted his legal expertise to the safety of society rather than the freedom of criminals.

It went without saying that he could have held a partner's chair in any criminal-law firm in America, but from the day he'd passed the bar exam, Emil Jacobs had dedicated his life to putting criminals in jail.

Jose had introduced me to her the week after I'd taken my first Bar exam in August, 1965.

His firm wanted him to come into the office full-time after his graduation from high school, read law with them, and eventually take the bar exam.

After passing the bar exam, he was all set to take over a country law practice.

We spent a couple of days in Hot Springs with Mother, Jeff, and Roger, then went back to Little Rock for a prep course on the Arkansas Bar exam, which proved helpful enough that both of us passed.

Lying for his bar exam he knew he might get caught sooner or later didn't he?

I've taken the New York bar exam, and I can tell you it's not an IQ_test.

It's not particularly meaningful that he failed the bar exam, if you think about it.

Beginning writers need to remember that anyone with a few hundred dollars to invest can place an ad in Writer's Digest, calling himself or herself a literary agent - it isn't as if you have to pass a bar exam, or anything.

Warren and I stand on equal footing--neither of us has ever passed the bar exam.