Bid To Measure Law Schools By Students’ Bar Success Stalled

An American Bar Association committee tasked with providing a comprehensive overview of bar exam standards has given up, for now, an attempt to impose stricter  law school accreditation standards. The standards review committee reported at a Feb. 7 ABA midyear meeting in Chicago that proposed changes – including a requirement for schools to show that  75 percent of their graduates passed the bar exam within two years – were not ready to be acted on because of inconsistencies in test reporting nationwide.