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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.

A powerful state lawmaker has recommended 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 Thursday that said the passing score “has become an artificial barrier to the practice of law, implicating antitrust concerns, causing personal and financi...

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