Education
Nov. 25, 2015
Legal educators fret about negative impact of declining bar passage rates
Legal educators worry that capable future attorneys will pursue different careers in light of declining bar exam passage rates.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
The bar passage rate for California's July exam fell to its lowest level in nearly 30 years, continuing a national trend that has legal educators and others fretting that capable would-be attorneys may pursue different careers as the legal profession's reputation suffers further.
Of the 8,323 applicants who took the exam this summer, just 46.6 percent passed, a 2 percent d...
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