Ethics/Professional Responsibility,
California Supreme Court,
State Bar & Bar Associations
Jun. 12, 2017
Our bar exam pass point is simply arbitrary
Two law professors have claimed 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. Their conclusion exhibits a non sequitur flaw.
Robert C. Fellmeth
Price Professor of Public Interest Law
University of San Diego School of Law
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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