Letters,
State Bar & Bar Associations
May 23, 2018
Time for the State Bar to ditch the MBE
Any lawyer who has practiced more than six months knows that the MBE tests no such skills.
Ira L. Shafiroff
Professor
Southwestern Law School
Email: ishafiroff@swlaw.edu
Ira is the author of "First-Year Law School Success: the Ultimate and Essential Guide for Every 1L" (4th ed. 613 House) (2018). The views expressed in Mr. Shafiroff's columns are his own.
If State Bar Executive Director Leah T. Wilson sincerely means it when she states, "Over the long term, we need to be sure that we are testing for the skills and content that new attorneys need, and that we are doing so in the right format," she and the California Committee of Bar Examiners will drop the Multistate Bar Exam portion of the bar exam. ["Bar exam results hit new low," Daily Journal, May 22].
Any lawyer who has practiced ...
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