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Aoife Moore Kavanagh

Irish Woman Among Youngest Ever to Pass New York Bar

By Adam Farley, Deputy Editor
December / January 2018

December 1, 2017 by 2 Comments

When the results of the July New York Bar Exam were posted this fall, Aoife Moore Kavanagh (right), a law graduate of Dublin City University from County Louth, became one of the youngest people ever to pass the grueling test, at age 22. “A lot of my fellow classmates and people I met while in New York didn’t know that it was even an option to sit the Bar Exam without going to … [Read more...] about Irish Woman Among Youngest Ever to Pass New York Bar

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