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State Bar & Bar Associations

Mar. 9, 2017

State Bar to ask law schools for more data about students

The bar wants the academic information to help study the declining passage rates on the bar exam, but both the agency and law school deans want to keep the information confidential.

By Lyle Moran
Daily Journal Staff Writer

The State Bar plans to ask law schools for more academic data about their students to help it study the declining passage rate on the California bar exam, but the agency and deans hope to keep such information confidential.

The bar has also said it may need legislation to guarantee that the data it hopes to receive, such as LSAT scores and law school GPAs, would not have to be disclosed under the...

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