re: Louisiana Supreme Court waives bar exam for 2020 applicants

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Let’s assume an 80% pass rate, which is on the high end. 500 new lawyers means a legit 100 would not have passed. They just admitted 100 people who are not competent to practice law.

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And you have now set a precedent. What other "cataclysmic harships" will arise mandating simply just the grating of a license? This will be like the NCAA's hardship waiver program. Every bozo is going to try to come up with some "hardship" that mandates he/she not have to take the exam. And if you are going to grant the "waiver" over this overblown bullshite, then why not for people who might actually have a hardship?

As Crain pointed out, many applicants who took the July 2005 exam had to essentially take it (or parts of it) TWICE because of Katrina (you remember, that event that destroyed the homes of 1000's in the NOLA region. Here, the Supreme Court just said a "threat" that had less of a chance of killing/harming the applicants than the applicants' actual drive to the testing site was enough to forgo a requirement that has applied to generations of lawyers.

Sadly, this is going to negatively affect many young (now) lawyers who in all likelihood would have passed the bar anyway. Some, maybe many, potential employers aren't going to hire 2020 graduates because they can't be sure the new lawyers are actually competent to practice.