The New Lawyer Supplement
Nov. 20, 2007
Are Law Schools Engaged In Consumer Fraud?
UCLA law professors Rick Sanders and Jane Yakowitz apply their affirmative action criticisms to the California Bar Exam
By Rick Sander and Jane Yakowitz
The semiannual release of bar results in California is a time of celebration for many but despair and frustration for thousands of others. With a first-time bar passage rate hovering around 65 percent (and a pass rate for repeaters averaging under 25 percent), the California Bar Exam is the biggest hurdle lying between law students and jobs as lawyers. The exam often seems a forbidding but inevi...
The semiannual release of bar results in California is a time of celebration for many but despair and frustration for thousands of others. With a first-time bar passage rate hovering around 65 percent (and a pass rate for repeaters averaging under 25 percent), the California Bar Exam is the biggest hurdle lying between law students and jobs as lawyers. The exam often seems a forbidding but inevi...
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