California Supreme Court,
State Bar & Bar Associations
Jun. 16, 2017
California bar pass point is untenable
New York and other states that flunk 10 to 20 percent, not the majority of takers as does our state, hardly have markedly incompetent or dishonest attorneys vis-à-vis California.
Robert C. Fellmeth
Price Professor of Public Interest Law
University of San Diego School of Law
,p>Two members of the Pepperdine law faculty have repeated their claim that those who score low on the California bar exam suffer a higher incidence of bar discipline, concluding that lowering the "cut score" will endanger the public. I spent five years studying the State Bar of California's discipline system as the State Bar discipline monitor, writing 11 reports to the chief justice and the California Legislature. The Pepperdine conclusion exhibits a non sequitur flaw.
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