Letters,
Legal Education
May 1, 2020
Improve lawyer skills instead of lowering admission standards
Here we go again. Three years ago, a few law schools pushed to lower the pass score for the California bar exam. I wrote then that this was a terrible idea because we were already allowing attorneys to practice who were barely competent and who did not well serve the interests of their clients. Instead, I advocated that we needed to improve the skills of all lawyers and not lower the standards of admission to the California Bar.
Stanley Mosk Courthouse
William F. Fahey
Judge
Los Angeles County Superior Court
Independent calendar
UCLA School of Law, 1976
Here we go again. Three years ago, a few law schools pushed to lower the pass score for the California bar exam. I wrote then that this was a terrible idea because we were already allowing attorneys to practice who were barely competent and who did not well serve the interests of their clients. Instead, I advocated that we needed to improve the skills of all lawyers and not lower the standards of admission to the California Bar.
I w...
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