As if a second year of navigating the COVID-19 pandemic wasn’t enough, 2021 kicked off with a U.S. News & World Report rankings kerfuffle and the announcement of a significant overhaul of the bar exam, before moving on to several law school scandals and a remote bar exam disaster, and finally ending with a reality star passing the “baby bar” and the ABA blessing the use of the GRE in law school admissions.