Julianne Hill
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 48
- Latest publication
- Sep 30, 2026
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- Jul 7, 2026
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Scammers impersonate criminal defense lawyer in scheme to defraud families of jailed people (opens the original)
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“We do not solicit clients by calling families; that’s a red flag. Attorneys and public defenders will never cold call you or your family,” Kyle Ehlers, a lawyer who practices in the Puget Law Group’s Seattle office, told KMVU. “It’s disappointing to see our name used to exploit families during one of the hardest moments of their lives.” (Photo from Shutterstock) Scammers are impersonating a partner and a criminal defense trial attorney at a Washington law firm in a scheme targeting families and
Pass rate for inaugural NextGen UBE administration hits 72.7%, NCBE says (opens the original)
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Despite disruptions in two states, the NextGen Uniform Bar Exam’s pass rate for the inaugural 2026 administration hit 72.7%, within 4.3 percentage points of every July national pass rate from 2021 through 2025, according to the National Conference of Bar Examiners. In July, the new skills-based exam, issued on computer rather than the traditional pencil-and-paper test, was administered in 10 jurisdictions. According to the NCBE, 2,630 examinees earned an official UBE score, the national mean sco
Law school grades are related to bar passage, new study finds (opens the original)
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Grades in law school do matter, at least as they relate to first-time bar passage, according to a new study. (Image from Shutterstock) Grades in law school do matter, at least as they relate to first-time bar passage, according to a new study. Released Tuesday by the AccessLex Institute, the study, What Matters for Bar Success: Doctrinal Performance, Coursework Exposure, and First-Time Bar Passage, shows that doctrinal grade-point averages and first-year grade-point averages are more closely lin
Education Department committee declines to make recommendation on ABA Legal Ed council status as accreditor (opens the original)
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Updated: The U.S. Department of Education’s National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity voted Thursday not to make a recommendation regarding the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar’s status as the sole national accreditor of law schools, a role it has held since 1952. The move came one day after the committee was unable to come to a decision after more than six hours of debate and three failed votes in the Washington, D.C., meeting held by the biparti
California bar candidates win $1.35M after troubled 2025 exam (opens the original)
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Bar candidates who took the flopped launch of the February 2025 California bar exam have agreed to a $1.35 million settlement with ProctorU Inc., the company operating as Meazure Learning that administered the troubled remote and hybrid test. (Image from Shutterstock) Bar candidates who took the flopped launch of the February 2025 California bar exam have agreed to a $1.35 million settlement with ProctorU Inc., the company operating as Meazure Learning that administered the troubled remote and h
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