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Tougher, Simpler Law School Accreditation Standards Considered

February 11, 2016

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A committee of the ABA will consider whether to streamline the way that law schools can prove its students are passing the bar exam within the first few years after graduating. Under the proposal, law schools would have to demonstrate that 75 percent of its graduates who took the bar exam within two years of graduating passed. It would eliminate a more complicated current bar pass requirement, in which law schools could show its first-time bar pass rate was no more than 15 points below the average bar pass rate for ABA-approved schools in states where its graduates took the exam. The proposal would also eliminate a loophole that now allows schools to exclude from its calculations “non-persisters,” or graduates who fail a bar exam once and do not take the test again.

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