While first-time passage rates for the Pennsylvania bar exam were lower this year than they have been in more than a decade, the failures are unlikely to impact most law firms.
Members of the legal community had a variety of theories as to why only about 78.3 percent of the first-time applicants to the bar passed their exam in July. That is the lowest percentage since 2003, when it was 77.8 percent, and the first time since then it has dipped below 80 percent.
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