The American Bar Association’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar has proposed tightening up its regulation of those law schools with a significant percentage of graduates who have failed their state’s bar exam. Under the proposed new accreditation standard, law schools must ensure that at least three-quarters of their graduates pass the bar after two attempts, rather than five, as is the case under the current standards. As with any numerical benchmark, the measure is imperfect, yet its purpose is a sound one.
Law students invest substantial time, money and energy in law school and the prospect that their investment will not, at the very least, adequately prepare them to pass the bar examination is troubling.
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