Podcast: UC Hastings Law Dean David Faigman and Pepperdine Law professor Robert Anderson debate whether California should lower bar exam cut score
KPCC (NPR SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA) – The state bar exam for California has long been known in legal circles to be one of the toughest in the country to pass.
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ABA JOURNAL – The California Supreme Court, not a board of the State Bar of California, will determine what constitutes a passing score on the state’s bar exam.
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ABA JOURNAL – A questionnaire about the proposed revision to Standard 316, which deals with bar passage rates, will be sent to ABA-accredited law schools.
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CLARION LEDGER – The legal profession has been a career that many aspire to obtain, but becoming an attorney in Mississippi is proving more difficult in recent years.
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DAILY EMERALD – “With this status of law school grading, the bar exam remains the last guardian of the galaxy — for lawyers, that is.”
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STATE BAR OF WISCONSIN – The State Bar of Wisconsin welcomes 82 new Wisconsin lawyers on May 31, graduates of the U.W. Law School, ready for the challenges of working in the legal profession.
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BLOOMBERG LAW – The disconnect between a school’s low bar passage rate, relative to other schools in the country, and its ability to draw applicants raises a question that’s been looming for legal education regulators.
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INDIANA LAWYER – The February 2017 bar exam results brought a fresh round of disappointment to the Indiana legal community and a renewed conversation about why the scores keep dropping.
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ABA JOURNAL – Martin Tankleff, who was arrested at age 17 and would spend 17 years in prison for a wrongful conviction in the murders of his parents, has passed the New York state bar exam.
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STATE BAR OF WISCONSIN – They are the 39 new Wisconsin lawyers who took the oath April 18 in Madison after passing the Wisconsin Bar Exam in February.
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