State Bar & Bar Associations,
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Aug. 15, 2019
If California wants to lead, the bar should embrace reciprocity
Here’s an irony of the California bar: Passing our nation’s most difficult bar exam provides the least valuable license to practice.
A recent article by our esteemed former president of the State Bar of California, Jeffrey Bleich, criticized the excessive difficulty of passing the California State Bar. "We Must Set a Reasonable Standard for Passing the Bar." Daily Journal, August 7, 2019. Some may complain that we need better lawyers, but Mr. Bleich effectively describes the high costs of our low pass rate. <...
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