State Bar & Bar Associations
Jun. 20, 2017
144 is not the answer
Pepperdine law professors Robert Anderson and Derek Muller and the State Bar of California have failed to prove that an MBE cut score of 144 is necessary to assure attorney competence and consumer safety.
William Wesley Patton
Professor Emeritus
Whittier Law School
Email: bpatton@law.whittier.edu
UCLA Law School
William is also assistant clinical professor at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, and a lecturer in law at USC Gould School of Law.
Pepperdine University law professors Robert Anderson and Derek Muller have conceded that their study, "The High Cost of Lowering the Bar," does not prove that lower bar exam scores are causally related with attorney misconduct. Anderson and Muller previously admitted that their study is based on "imperfect data," not on disciplined attorneys' information, and that they make "numerous assumptions" that "may not ... reflect the true relationships" of the data they used.
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