State Bar & Bar Associations
Aug. 7, 2019
We must set a reasonable standard for passing the bar
Today, over 1,000 Californian bar applicants each year achieve a score that would qualify them to practice law in New York, Texas, Pennsylvania and Illinois and yet they are denied admission to the California bar because of the unjustifiably high score required to pass the bar exam.
Jeffrey L. Bleich
Phone: (415) 882-5020
UC Berkeley School of Law
Jeff is a former president of the State Bar of California and special counsel to President Barack Obama. He currently serves as a special master for multi-district litigation in the federal court.
Twelve years ago, I became president of the State Bar of California for one reason -- to improve the delivery of legal services to every person in California. When the bar denies qualified people the ability to practice law, it fails that mission. And California is failing. Millions of Californians cannot find or afford a lawyer to assist them with the most basic legal needs -- health care, housing conditions, estate planning, guardianships, credit disputes, family di...
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