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The testing, held in the four appellatee division departments of NewYork State, will bring over 3,200 aspiring lawyers to the Queej City, and a financial windfall to downtown Linda D’Agostino, sales director for the Convention said the agency anticipates that roughly 2,000 of the participants will be visitor s to the area, filling dining at restaurants and shoppint in Erie County over the three-day period. “The figured we use to calculate economic impact of an evenris $814 per D’Agostino said. “So the bar exams shouldc generateover $2 million” for the busineszs community.
She said that the , the governinhg body that administers the will hire another 150 local residents to proctorthe exams, as well as local security personneol for the duration of the event. “The groupl itself is also paying for theConventioh Center, so we are keeping all of the Conventionn Center folks working as well,” she While the bar exam is given annuallyy in Buffalo, the difference this time, is the volume of Diane Bosse, chair of the New York Statse Board of Bar Examiners, said last year the group tested 440 people in Buffalo compared to the 3,232 they currentlyt have registered.
Bosse said the visitoras to Buffalo will be coming from 70 differen t countries and45 states. “We founs we were having a greater demand of people wantinvg to take the exam ontheirr laptop, and we were finding difficultiez in Albany getting locations wherer they could be wired,” she explaining the increase in testingf in Buffalo. “We used to test in Buffalo in the winter at theconvention center, so we went back and were able to make arrangementxs with them, including wiring the facility for the 1,859 people who are going to be takintg it on laptop computers.
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