Legal Opinion
LLM Bar Exam, LLC v. Barbri, Inc.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided September 25, 2017No. 16 Civ. 3770 (KPF)PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
KATHERINE POLK FAILLA, District Judge:
This is a dispute between two companies that prepare law school graduates for a time-honored (and seemingly Sisyphean) rite of legal passage: the bar examination. Each year, thousands of foreign attorneys obtain Master of Laws (“LL.M.”) degrees from American law schools. Since 2009, Plaintiff LLM Bar Exam, LLG (“LBE”) has sought to train many of these foreign LL.M. graduates to take and pass the New York and California bars. But LBE claims that it has been thwarted in its efforts by Defendant Barbri, Inc. (“Barbri”) — a far older, and far…
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