Thursday, October 18, 2018

Boston Business Journal, Law School Grads Reach a New Low on Mass. Bar Exam:

Nearly one in three aspiring lawyers who took the Massachusetts bar examination this summer failed the test, the highest failure rate in the Bay State this century.

Only 69.2 percent of test-takers passed the bar exam in July, according to statistics posted by the Massachusetts Board of Bar Examiners on Monday. The previous low for the July exam this century — 70.9 percent — occurred in 2016.

First-Time Bar Pass Rank (Rate) School US News Rank MA (Overall) 1 (98.6%) Harvard 1 (3) 2 (93.7%) Boston University 2 (22)

3 (92.6%) UMass Tier 2

4 (87.8%) Northeastern

4 (74) 5 (86.8%) Boston College 3 (27) (69.2%) Statewide Average 6 (64.5%) Suffolk 5 (144) 7 (63.7%) New England Tier 2 8 (58.7%) W. New England Tier 2 9 (35.9%) Mass (Andover)

Tier 2

The Board of Bar Examiners has only provided the Business Journal with passage rates dating back to the year 2000.

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