State Bar & Bar Associations
Jan. 6, 2017
State Bar halts enforcement of bar exam passage rule
The agency said the Committee of Bar Examiners suspended the rule because the panel has stopped providing schools a list of how their graduates performed on the test.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
The State Bar has halted enforcement of the requirement that state-accredited law schools maintain a 40 percent bar exam passage rate for the preceding five-year period.
In response to a Daily Journal inquiry Tuesday, the bar said that the Committee of Bar Examiners suspended the passage rule last year because the panel had stopped providing schools a list of how graduates performed on the test.<...
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