[zeugma]

That's 67% from any Law School. How many Yale Law Graduates ever flunk the DC Bar Exam?

An excellent question.

[Theodore R.]

You mean Mrs. Bill may not be “the smartest woman in the world”? Please don’t tell the American people. They couldn’t take the shock of knowing the truth.

[ml/nj]

I just did an internet search for Yale Law Graduates that failed the DC Bar, and the first link is to Snopes about Hillary. While they do admit that it is true she flunked, they add this little piece of information:

many first-rate lawyers, even Yale Law graduates, had flunked the bar on their first try

I wonder how they know this.

ML/NJ

[ml/nj]

More info from another site:

I thought one might look at July 2007 bar passage rates by school for the single largest state. As it turns out, across all non-California law schools with at least 15 applicants, Yale had the highest bar passage rate (94.1 percent). California bar exam takers from the University of Chicago and Harvard did quite well, but their passage rates of 86 and 87 percent were clearly lower than that of Yale students. Yale law graduates are looking better all the time!

So this is for the California Bar, not the DC Bar. I'm guessing based on the 94.1% that 17 took it and one failed. It doesn't really prove anything but it's interesting nonetheless.

[hal ogen]

Isn’t the WDC bar exam known as an easy one to pass because of several factors including all the affirmative-action types who take it?