Letter to the Editor
Dec. 29, 2016
About those bar exam results (Dec. 14)
If some ABA-accredited law school graduates do not pass the California bar exam on the first sitting, then tell them to get off their pity pot and prepare to take the exam again until they pass. By James F. Mahon
I graduated from the San Francisco Law School accredited by the State Bar of California, not accredited by the ABA. I, along with the majority of my 1975 classmates, passed the California bar exam on the first sitting. But we had no illusions about winning a clerkship or being hired as an associate attorney at any major law firm. We had to poke and prod to get an opening somewhere to prove that we could practice law in California. The license to practi...
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