State Bar & Bar Associations
Dec. 15, 2016
Bar exam may actually disserve rather than serve the public interest
It just cannot be that a single exam is the answer when it adds astronomically to the costs of legal education and erects a barrier to entry to the profession. By Deanell Reece Tacha
Deanell Reece Tacha
By now, most everyone in the legal profession in California knows that the bar passage rate for the July 2016 bar exam in California dropped dramatically and is at significant variance with the passage rates in every other state in the nation. On the face of it, there is a problem - not just for law schools and aspiring lawyers in California, but for the profession as a whole. It is time for serious introspection throughout ...
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