California Supreme Court Moves to Make Bar Exam Easier to Pass<br />That result, the school’s dean, David L. Faigman, wrote the California Committee of Bar Examiners last December, was “outrageous<br />and constitutes unconscionable conduct on the part of a trade association that masquerades as a state agency.”<br />“The cut score is almost everything,” said Robert Anderson, a professor of corporate law at Pepperdine<br />School of Law in California, who did a study of the 10 most difficult state exams in 2013.<br />Some, including Fleming’s Fundamentals of Law, a California bar exam preparation business<br />that tracks the debate over the certification score, called the court’s change “unprecedented.”<br />Nicholas W. Allard, dean of Brooklyn Law School, hailed the action as an effort “to take back control of licensing and admitting new lawyers.”<br />The move “signals that much larger concerns are at work<br />that will force eventually an overhaul everywhere of legal testing and licensing practices,” he said.<br />In February, 20 deans at American Bar Association-accredited California law schools<br />wrote the state Supreme Court asking it to set a lower passing score.
