State Bar & Bar Associations,
Legal Education
Jul. 29, 2020
Assembly Judiciary Committee chair seeks retroactive lower bar exam score
“If a 1,390 passing score supports minimum competency to practice law today, it certainly did so in the past,” Assemblymember Mark Stone wrote to the state Supreme Court.
The head of the Assembly Judiciary Committee asked the California Supreme Court to make the newly reduced passing bar score retroactive to at least the last five years.
In a letter sent Monday, Committee Chair Mark Stone, D-Santa Cruz, praised the court for providing an online bar exam in October; offering graduates a provisional licensure to practice law temporarily; and permanently lowering the passing score of the bar exam to 1,39...
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