Wake Up Call: New ABA Site Allows Quick Search for Schools’ Bar Passage Rates

• The American Bar Association’s new comprehensive data on bar passage rates at ABA-approved law schools eliminate the need for a school-by-school search. Among other things, the data show that nearly 9 of 10 law graduates in 2015 who took the bar exam passed it within two years of graduation. ( ABA ) The highest 2017 first-time pass rates included the University of Chicago Law School, at 98.12 percent; Yale Law School, at 97.65 percent; and Duke Law School, at 97.44 percent. The lowest pass rates were Arizona Summit Law School, at 26.53 percent; Thomas Jefferson School of Law, at 29.17 percent; and Whittier ...