Harvard Law Grad Suing NY State Board After Failing Bar Exam
Wait until you read the basis for her suit below. Wow.
Law Newz reports.
Harvard Law Grad Sues After She Failed Bar Exam and Lost $160k Per Year Job
A Harvard Law grad is suing the New York State Board of Law Examiners, claiming its refusal to provide her requested testing accommodations caused her to twice fail the bar exam. Furthermore, the lawsuit claims that “the stigma attaching to bar exam failures” caused her to lose the opportunity to work at a top-tier East Coast based law firm.
According to the complaint, Tamara Wyche claims the New York State Board of Law Examiners violated the Americans With Disabilities Act when they refused to provide special accommodations to her when she sat for the bar exam. Wyche claims to suffer from depression and anxiety disorder, in addition to cognitive difficulties, including memory loss, as the result of a 2009 ATV accident.
When she first applied to take the bar exam, Wyche alleges that she requested to be given 50% extra-time, stop-clock breaks and a private testing room. She also alleges that she attached letters from doctors confirming her diagnoses and a letter from Harvard that confirmed she received similar accommodations from the law school.
After initially denying the requests, the Board revised its decision and granted her stop-clock breaks and allowed her to take the exam in a smaller room with others that requested similar accommodations. Wyche claims she had a panic attack during the exam and she ultimately failed. She took the exam again the following year and was allowed 50% more time, but she was still seated in a smaller room with others. She claims to have suffered panic attacks during the exam and she failed, again.
Harvard Law Grad Sues After She Failed Bar Exam and Lost $160k Per Year Job (Law Newz)
Comments
Would I want Wyche working as an associate attorney on my case at $500 per hour?
What is she going to do when she’s part of a firm? What firm is going to pay her $160k a year when she’s an emotional cripple?!
“cognitive difficulties, including memory loss,”
How does she expect to practice law?
There is always Baltimore
Holey crap, she is from Baltimore.
http://www.bates.edu/news/2008/05/23/tamara-wyche/