ABA passes new bar exam pass standards for law school accreditation
THE NEW YORK TIMES – The American Bar Association’s accrediting body put law schools on notice Monday that it intended to tighten a rule that sets a deadline for graduates to pass state bar exams — a near-universal requirement for becoming a practicing lawyer.
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ABA JOURNAL – The Oklahoma Supreme Court has reacted to a decline in bar pass rates with a change in bar exam scoring.
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ABA JOURNAL – An ABA committee will take up a proposal that would toughen—and greatly simplify—the bar passage requirements of the law school accreditation standards.
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ABA JOURNAL – Law students seeking a more mobile practice got some encouragement from the ABA’s House of Delegates when it adopted two resolutions concerning the Uniform Bar Examination.
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LOS ANGELES TIMES – For the second year in a row, the percentage of people who successfully took the summer California bar exam fell to a historic low, with less than 47% passing, according to state statistics. Last year, only 48.6% of those who took the exam made the grade, the first time the passage…
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ABA JOURNAL – The drop in bar pass rates follows a drop in law school applicants.
Read More about Additional states see decline in bar exam pass ratesCalifornia law school deans respond to decline in bar exam passage rates
LOS ANGELES TIMES – Eight out of California’s 21 law schools have recently admitted classes that have a “high,” “very high” or “extreme” number of students who have a poor chance of passing the bar, based on their LSAT scores, the study showed.
Read More about California law school deans respond to decline in bar exam passage rates1,600 new lawyers join Illinois Bar
MADISON RECORD – Sixty-eight new lawyers took the attorney’s oath Thursday in Carbondale, as part of the 1,605 who were sworn in to practice law in Illinois during ceremonies across the state.
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ABOVE THE LAW – The passage rate for graduates of ABA-accredited schools who took the test for the first time was 79%, the lowest figure since at least 2004. That’s four percentage points below the July 2014 rate, and it’s more than an 11 percentage-point drop-off from 2008 when 90.5% of candidates in that grouping…
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U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT – Graduates’ own willingness to buckle down and study – or not – can also heavily influence their chances of passing the bar, experts say. Because so many factors influence what happens when J.D.s take the bar exam, experts say it’s not best for applicants to put too much weight…
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