July 19, 2022
A New York federal judge dismissed a disability bias suit from a fired Ropes & Gray LLP attorney who sued the state agency that administers the bar exam after failing the test, ruling Tuesday that the agency is subject to sovereign immunity as an arm of the Empire State's government.
February 15, 2022
An attorney fired from Ropes & Gray LLP for failing the bar exam told a New York federal judge Tuesday that sovereign immunity should not stand in the way of her disability suit against the state agency that administers the test.
April 28, 2021
The Second Circuit ruled Wednesday that sovereign immunity blocks a Harvard Law grad's Rehabilitation Act claim that New York's Board of Law Examiners failed to accommodate her anxiety-related disability as she sat for the bar exam, reversing a lower court decision.
October 08, 2020
The Second Circuit struggled Thursday with whether New York's Board of Law Examiners can be held liable as a unit of the state's sprawling Unified Court System in a Harvard Law grad's suit claiming the board failed to accommodate her anxiety-related disability as she sat for the bar exam.
September 26, 2017
A Harvard Law School graduate who lost her job at Ropes & Gray LLP after twice failing the bar exam dropped some of her claims on Tuesday against the New York State Board of Law Examiners, which she says did not accommodate her anxiety-related disability until it was too late.
June 15, 2016
A Harvard Law School graduate who lost her job at Ropes & Gray LLP after twice failing the bar exam has sued the New York State Board of Law Examiners for refusing to accommodate her anxiety-related disabilities until it was too late.