State Bar & Bar Associations,
Legal Education
Jul. 27, 2020
Deans, others call for lower bar exam score to be retroactive
Nineteen law school deans asked the state Supreme Court to allow admission to the bar for graduates who failed to get a passing score of 1,440 in the February exam but would be lawyers by now if they had just gotten 1,390, the new cutoff point for those taking the October exam.
The state Supreme Court's decision to lower the bar exam cut score would be applied retroactively if some legal professionals get their way. But how far back?
A decision to make it retroactive or not do so could bring litigation either way.
Nineteen law school deans sent a letter to the court Thursday, asking it to allow admission to the bar for graduates who failed to get a passing score of 1,440 ...
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