Less than half of law school graduates who took the July 2014 bar exam in California passed, the Los Angeles Times' Jason Song reports: "The 48.6% pass rate in California is a drop of nearly 7 percentage points from the previous year; nearly 8,500 people took the test in July. The last time the passage rate dipped below half was in 2005." Brian Z. Tamanaha, a critic of legal education and a law professor at the Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, said that the decrease in successful bar-exam test-takers could because the number of applicants to law school have decreased and schools are accepting a higher percentage of applicants.
Passage rates have fallen in other states too, Song further reports.
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