CUNY’s former dean, Mary Lu Bilek and Marsha Griggs, Professor of Law at Saint Louis University write jointly for Bloomberg News that our profession should not allow the technical failures that arose in the administration of the NextGen Bar Exam in Washington State and elsewhere to distract us from the many ways this new exam is a first step in improving upon previous efforts to test aspiring lawyers. They offer many sound points on key steps to continuing needed reform in the age of AI. Key among them is to move away from rote memorization. You can read their column here.



