Posted on 03/02/2023 10:21:36 AM PST by thegagline
The Delaware Supreme Court lowered the passing score on the state's bar exam amid other changes reportedly intended to increase racial diversity among the state's lawyers.
The 200-question multiple-choice exam will be offered twice instead of once a year beginning in 2024 – and its passing score will be lowered from 145 to 143, according to local outlet WHYY.
The number of essays on the exam will be decreased from eight to four, and the number of essay topics will be reduced from 14 to 10.
The clerkship requirement is also being lowered from 21 weeks to 12 weeks, and the mandatory list of 25 legal proceedings that potential lawyers must attend has been shortened to 18 out of 30 possible items.
The late application fee for law school graduates and attorneys admitted in other states has also been decreased.
In the court's announcement of the changes, Chief Justice Collins J. Seitz Jr. pushed back against any assertion that they reflect a "lowering of standards" and referred to them as a "modernization" of the admission process aimed at aligning with the standards in other states.
Seitz, who began the diversity project that led to a report that suggested changes to the exam, maintained that such revisions will enhance competitiveness in attracting legal talent to the state that serves as a hub of business litigation, according to Reuters. *** "White people generally who have their antennae up, who understand what is happening in society, have learned the meaning of microaggression. They’ve learned the meaning of how to be welcoming, how to be professional, how to make this community better suited for diversity in its professional class, including its lawyers," he said.
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Just what everybody wants, a dumber less competent lawyer fighting for your freedoms.
“The Delaware Supreme Court lowered the passing score on the state’s bar exam amid other changes reportedly intended to increase racial diversity among the state’s lawyers.”
How to say it without saying it.
Perhaps the worst racism in America today is the soft bigotry of low expectations.
I've been waiting years to apply.
If diversity really was strength then the Austro-Hungarian Empire would have won the First World War.
They never ask the question “why” a certain category of people cannot meet well established standards of competency.
Just like most of Africa, we are led by crooked idiot politicians. That don’t know Shinola from...
It is the natural result of lowering entrance requirements for law school for minority candidates. Now you have people coming out (who should never have gotten IN) not passing the bar exams.
Qualifications and merit no longer matter? Are they recognizing and institutionalizing that Black applicants are less intelligent, less able to compete? Will they next ask the courts to rule in favor of Black attornies?
It’s literally called “passing the bar”
Yes, it is... dumbass. It is a barrier from incompetence...
Do intelligent black people never get angry that liberals, day in and day out, label them as too stupid to function as others in the world do?
Yes, it is.
The world is full of stupid people today.
They should be made to put some sort of disclaimer on their advertising, e.g., “Passed the Lowered Bar”.
Keep lowering the bar low enough and we can have chimps practicing law.
“Passing the bar” will now be known as “jumping the broom”.
I am waiting for them to lower bar to get commercial pilot license. Commercial pilots are least diverse.
Being a “barrier” is basically the whole point.
I refuse to fly now. Told my manager if i cannot drive there I will not go as corporate trips.
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