Law School

Law Schools in Jeopardy of Failing ABA's New 75% Bar Passage Accreditation Standard

By Jim Chen et al.

On Saturday, I blogged on TaxProf Blog the ABA's expected approval, at its meeting this week in Los Angeles, of a new objective bar passage standard for law school accreditation. Under the proposal, over a five-year period, 75% of a school's graduates must have passed the bar and the school's annual first-time bar passage rate in its home state must not be more than 15 percentage points below the average first-time bar passage rate in that state. As the following chart illustrates, using only 2007 data (minority enrollment, bar passage), seven law schools would have failed the 75%/15% requirement [click on chart to enlarge]:

See TaxProf Blog for charts of the seven law schools that would have been within five percentage points, and the sixteen law schools that would have been within 5-10 percentage points, of failing the 75%/15% requirement.

Full post as published by MoneyLaw on February 04, 2008 (boomark / email).