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July 30, 2024

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Discrimination top misconduct claim by US judiciary employees, report says

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Allegations of discrimination within the federal judiciary involving employees’ race, gender or other characteristics rank as the top issue in 161 complaints of wrongful conduct in the workplace from 2020 to 2022, according to a report by the non-partisan Government Accountability Office.

Unlike other federal workers, the judiciary’s 30,000 employees are not covered by federal anti-discrimination laws. Instead, claims of workplace misconduct are routed through the courts’ internal employment dispute resolution systems. The process is opaque, and complaints are not public.

According to the report, race was the No. 1 focus of discrimination and harassment complaints, followed by claims of wrongful conduct based on gender, disability and age. The study did not say how the cases were resolved.

The GAO’s report was the second issued this month detailing how federal courts address complaints of sexual harassment, discrimination and other misconduct, and follows the resignation of a judge in Alaska after an inquiry found he created a hostile work environment for his law clerks and fostered an inappropriate sexualized relationship with one. Read more.

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Bar exam officials offer law grads $1,500 to beta test revised exam

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Law school graduates typically pay upwards of $1,000 to take the bar exam. But this fall, there’s a way they can actually profit from their hours of study to prepare for the dreaded attorney licensing test.

The National Conference of Bar Examiners is offering law grads $1,500 to test-drive the first full-length prototype of its NextGen Bar exam — the revamped version of the bar exam that’s set to debut in July 2026.

The organization is seeking about 2,200 of the 46,000 people who are taking the 2024 bar exam this week to participate in a trial run of the new exam in October. Read more.

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