It looks like bar exam companies are doing a good job preparing lawyers for future software liability laws advocated by Dan Geer.
Nationallawjournal.com:
Less than a week after a software glitch sent bar-examination takers scrambling to upload their answers, disgruntled law graduates have filed two class actions against the company that provided the testing software.
Phillip Litchfield, a May graduate of Chicago-Kent College of Law, filed his claim against ExamSoft Worldwide Inc. on Aug. 4 in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, seeking more than $5 million on behalf of bar-exam takers.
A day later, Wake Forest University School of Law alumnus Catherine Booher and Gonzaga University School of Law graduate Christopher Davis became name plaintiffs in a class action against ExamSoft in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington. They, too, seek more than $5 million in damages for the class.
“On the long list of things about which exam takers should be worried, wondering whether they will be able to turn in their exams for grading should be at the very bottom,” the Washington state complaint says. “It is hard to imagine anything more basic in an exam than being able to turn it in for grading.” (read full article)
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