Practice Management

The Chronicle of Higher Education is reporting on the new analysis on law school graduates that finds that those unable to pass a bar examination have an even tougher time personally and financially that average college graduates.  And, this continues far into the future.  Five to ten years in the future, they still lag behind, and trail well behind law graduates that did pass the bar.  The only good news is that these graduates do bounce back in the later half of their professional lives.

Now, there can certainly be a lot of reasons for this, but undoubtedly a lot of it relates to the law graduate not to find any kind of quality employment or assistance as a result.  This is the reason that I often state that the one criteria those thinking about law school need to look at is the bar passage rate of a law schools graduating class.  This is given little attention in the ranking systems.  Certainly, if a law school has a higher or lower bar passage rate does not mean you will or will not pass the bar.  Notice if you will, however, that some law schools have a history of weak bar passage rates.  It can be said that statistics are statistics, but it does mean the likelihood is even greater that you will not pass the bar and will be left behind.  The truth of the matter some law school, no matter of their rankings, focus on the right things and focus on building practice ready students.  They focus on the bar exam.