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pyroinferno·

More stupid lawyers. Yay!

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No idea what these tests entail, but to me below paragraph is pretty normal:

Last year, just 62 percent of first-time test takers passed the California bar exam.

CA is significantly lower re % people who pass than other states

http://www.ncbex.org/pdfviewer/?file=%2Fdmsdocument%2F205

because https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14772630

Hmm, maybe. How many people take the bar exam from non-accredited institutions? My understanding it was a much lower percentage, and if that's the case then it wouldn't weigh very much on the overall passage rate.

California's bar exam is notoriously difficult to pass compared to other states. Whether that nets fewer stupid lawyers here than other states, maybe so, but I know of a few very intelligent people who did not pass the CA exam.

I seem to recall that most states require you not only to pass their bar exam, but also to have graduated from a recognized law school. California, by contrast, only requires you to pass the exam, but it's much harder than most, since they can't rely on the law school for a certain amount of sanity checking.

You can't just sign up for the bar exam in California. Your options in decreasing popularity are...

* Graduate from an ABA-accredited law school.

* Graduate from a California accredited law school.

* Graduate from an unaccredited law school, after taking the baby bar after your first year.

* Finish a four year legal apprenticeship program, taking the baby bar after your first year.

Unless you've done one of those things, you cannot sit for the bar exam in California.

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