State Bar & Bar Associations
Aug. 29, 2017
Powerful lawmaker urges lower passing score on bar exam
Mark Stone, chair of the Assembly Judiciary Committee, suggested a reduction from 144 to about 139.
Mark Stone, chair of the Assembly Judiciary Committee, urged adoption of a lower bar exam passing score.
A powerful state lawmaker has recommended that the passing score on the California bar exam temporarily be lowered from 144 to about 139, a figure some law school officials have also advocated.
Mark Stone, chair of the Assembly Judiciary Committee, submitted a letter to the State Bar last Thursday that said the passing score “has become an artificial barrier to the practice of law, implicating antitrust concerns, causing personal a...
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