“Graduates of national law schools tend to have lower first time bar passage rates than regional law schools….”
I beg to differ. These “national law schools” actually have higher first time passage rates, though some regional law schools may have higher rates in particular states. Harvard and Yale are consistently in the high 90’s. I recall taking a look at the details for Mrs. Bill flunking the DC bar several years ago. As I recall she may have been the only Yale student taking it to fail.
I went to what would be considered a national law school but not in the top 30, though it’s latest pass rate was in the top 15 and when I took and passed the CA bar it had a much higher pass rate than even the regional schools, even highly rated ones.
I would tend to question the intelligence of these politicians who failed the bar exam despite having supposedly some of the best education available . It would be interesting to see how many of Harris’ classmates failed the CA bar with her. The California bar is very hard, but the low pass rate includes a lot of people who attended unaccredited law schools.
Again, once CA re-establishes 'reading' for the law, the bar exam is dead nationwide. Someone will sue states with tight reciprocity laws (ie, "you must take our bar"), and win.
Reciprocity will then be established easily, simply a matter of a short period of practice in CA and then review.
CA will become the law $chool diploma mill that it always wanted to be, churning out thousands and thousands of "Nathan Wade"'s. In 10 years, CA lawyers starting out will make less than a burger flipper. SCHADENFREUDE!