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Education

Dec. 27, 2012

UC Irvine's first law school class beat most California law schools on July bar exam

UC Irvine School of Law's inaugural class scored a 90 percent pass rate on the July bar exam, second only to Stanford's 94 percent but edging out other top schools.


By Don J. DeBenedictis


Daily Journal Staff Writer


SANTA ANA - UC Irvine School of Law's first graduating class passed the bar exam in July at a rate higher than every other California law school except Stanford's, according to the State Bar.


Ninety percent of the 51 UC Irvine law graduates who took the exam in July passed, putting the new Orange County school on the path to meet Dean Erwin Chemerinksy's oft-stated goal of becoming ...

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