State Bar & Bar Associations
Jun. 8, 2017
When bar exam scores go low, discipline rates go high
Understandably, our recent study has been controversial. Much surrounds things the study does not purport to say, and we hope to clarify that.
Robert Anderson IV
Assistant Professor of Law
Pepperdine University School of Law
New York Univ School of Law
We recently released a draft study, "The High Cost of Lowering the Bar." In it, we aggregate publicly available data about attorney discipline rates in the state of California. Using the records of over 200,000 attorneys and a few empirical techniques, we find that lower bar exam scores correlate with higher attorney discipline rates. We project that lowering the cut score required to pass the bar would result in the admission of attorneys with a higher probability of discipline.
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