Mississippi to require additional education for law graduates after third time failing bar exam
ABA JOURNAL — If you fail the Mississippi bar exam three times, you’ll need to go back to school if you want to make a fourth go at it.
Read More about Mississippi to require additional education for law graduates after third time failing bar examLaw school deans detail plan to meet new bar passage standard
ABA JOURNAL — Before the council of the ABA’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar implemented a tighter bar passage standard May 17, it posted a memo, naming law schools that would likely fail the revision. With the new version of the standard, law schools now have two years, rather than five, to reach a….
Read More about Law school deans detail plan to meet new bar passage standardResults from California’s February bar exam
LAW.COM — Only 31.4% of would-be attorneys passed California’s February 2019 bar exam, marking the second-lowest pass rate on the notoriously difficult test in 35 years, according to figures released by the state bar
Read More about Results from California’s February bar examABA legal education section passes tougher bar pass standard for law schools
ABA JOURNAL — Following multiple years of discussion, and two rejections from the American Bar Association’s House of Delegates, the council of the ABA’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar adopted a proposed revision to tighten an accreditation standard regarding bar passage
Read More about ABA legal education section passes tougher bar pass standard for law schoolsHow law graduates who fail the bar exam rebound
LAW.COM — In the latest report in a series on the high rate of bar exam failures, Law.com takes a close look at two law graduates who endured the shocking disappointment of flunking the test and how they embarked on a course to rebound.
Read More about How law graduates who fail the bar exam reboundResults from February Connecticut Bar Exam
LAW.COM — For the second consecutive year, the percentage of law students passing the February Connecticut bar exam fell to less than 50%, the latest sign of a downward trend both statewide and nationally.
Read More about Results from February Connecticut Bar ExamNew York Bar Exam scores from February 2019
LAW.COM — Some 72% of graduates of American Bar Association accredited law schools who took the exam in New York in February for the first time passed, an increase of 3 percentage points and the highest for the group in five years, the New York State Board of Law Examiners announced this morning.
Read More about New York Bar Exam scores from February 2019A look at law school efforts to improve bar pass rates
LAW.COM — How to reverse sliding bar exam pass rates is a puzzle that law deans across the country are trying to solve. The national average score on the Multistate Bar Exam—the multiple choice portion of the exam—hit a 34-year low last July
Read More about A look at law school efforts to improve bar pass ratesData snapshot of bar pass rates for law graduates
LAW.COM — The fact that bar exam pass rates have been in decline is not news to the legal industry. But the scale and reach of the trend—as well as its impact on graduating law students and the profession overall—is more challenging to measure.
Read More about Data snapshot of bar pass rates for law graduatesAn analysis of recent bar exam pass rates for law school graduates
ABA JOURNAL — The data is for graduates of ABA-accredited law schools, according to a press release. The percentage is substantially the same as for 2015 law grads, who had an 88.49% bar pass rate within two years.
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