Results from February Connecticut Bar Exam
LAW.COM — For the second consecutive year, the percentage of law students passing the February Connecticut bar exam fell to less than 50%, the latest sign of a downward trend both statewide and nationally.
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LAW.COM — Some 72% of graduates of American Bar Association accredited law schools who took the exam in New York in February for the first time passed, an increase of 3 percentage points and the highest for the group in five years, the New York State Board of Law Examiners announced this morning.
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LAW.COM — How to reverse sliding bar exam pass rates is a puzzle that law deans across the country are trying to solve. The national average score on the Multistate Bar Exam—the multiple choice portion of the exam—hit a 34-year low last July
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LAW.COM — The fact that bar exam pass rates have been in decline is not news to the legal industry. But the scale and reach of the trend—as well as its impact on graduating law students and the profession overall—is more challenging to measure.
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ABA JOURNAL — The data is for graduates of ABA-accredited law schools, according to a press release. The percentage is substantially the same as for 2015 law grads, who had an 88.49% bar pass rate within two years.
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LAW.COM — Law.com analyzed the bar pass rates reported by schools to the American Bar Association between 2013 and 2017 and found that 42 out of 203 ABA-accredited law schools saw their pass rate fall anywhere from 10 to 20 percent. Thirty-five schools had pass-rate declines of more than 20 percent in those four years.
Read More about An analysis of law school bar pass ratesFebruary Multistate Bar Exam pass rate up after five years of decline
LAW.COM — The national average score on the Multistate Bar Exam increased by 1.2 points to 134 for the February 2019 test, according to the National Conference of Bar Examiners. That represents the first increase in the mean February MBE score since 2013, which was followed by a five-year slide in bar exam pass rates.
Read More about February Multistate Bar Exam pass rate up after five years of declineABA council to take up stronger bar pass standard for law schools again in May 2019
AZ CENTRAL — The American Bar Association Council is set to take up a proposal in May that would require law schools to have 75 percent of their graduates who take the bar exam pass it within two years.
Read More about ABA council to take up stronger bar pass standard for law schools again in May 2019Podcast: Interview with NALP Executive Director Jim Leipold on law firm hiring
LAW.COM — In this week’s podcast, we hear from Law.com legal education editor Karen Sloan about some surprises in this year’s report, which includes the top 50 law schools with the biggest percentage of 2018 J.D. graduates who took first-year associate jobs at major law firms.
Read More about Podcast: Interview with NALP Executive Director Jim Leipold on law firm hiringABA legal education section delays decision on stronger bar pass standard for law schools
LAW.COM — It seems the years-long debate over a controversial proposal to toughen the ABA’s bar pass standard for law schools will drag on for several more months. The ABA’s council of the section of legal education and admission to the Bar failed to reach a decision on the proposal.
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